First-Year Preparation
Check your undergraduate syllabus and determine which of the five pre-requisite courses you have yet to complete. It’s important to realize that the financial accounting course must be completed prior to taking Corporate Financial Reporting 1 and then Corporate Financial Reporting 2. Managerial accounting may be taken with Corporate Financial Reporting 1.
First-Year Summer
Complete the financial accounting course over this summer. If time permits, complete the management accounting and/or microeconomics course as well. Apply to and be accepted to the MAcc program.
First-Year Fall
- Corporate Financial Reporting 1 (There is space in BUS 3610 Corporate Financial Reporting1 in the fall semester for anyone interested in the MAcc program)
- Management accounting (if not completed in the summer)
- BUS 6601 Professional Communications
- A non-accounting elective (if needed for full-time status) or microeconomics prerequisite
Participate in career building activities included in the professional communications class and the fall Accounting Career Fair. Many two-year students obtain an internship offer for the following summer as a result of these activities.
First-Year Spring
- Corporate Financial Reporting 2
- Graduate accounting elective course (Accounting Information Systems recommended)
- A non-accounting elective (finance is preferred if you have no prior coursework in finance)
Second-Year Summer
Complete prerequisite in microeconomics or potentially an internship.
Second-Year Fall
- BUS 6602 CPA Law
- Two graduate accounting elective course (Auditing and Advanced Accounting recommended)
Participate in the fall Accounting Career Fair, network to obtain interviews for full-time employment offers for summer/fall of the following year
Second-Year Spring
- BUS 6690 Accounting Research, Regulation & Ethics
- Two graduate accounting elective courses (a taxation course is recommended).
Second-Year May
Graduate with your MAcc degree, begin to take the CPA exam, begin full-time employment between June and October (employer-specific start dates).