MSA Curriculum

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Marquette's MSA program is designed to meet the new AICPA educational requirements. The MSA program consists of ten courses — three required accounting courses, three or four accounting electives, and three of four business electives.  Prerequisite for admission to the MSA program is an undergraduate degree with an accounting major or the equivalent accounting course work.

Students graduating from the MSA program must have taken one or more courses in each of six functional areas of accounting:

  • Financial
  • Managerial
  • Taxation
  • Systems
  • Auditing
  • Governmental/Not-for-profit

These course areas can be covered at the graduate or undergraduate level.

The Marquette MSA program can be taken in a number of different scenarios. That is, a student may be enrolled in the program as either full-time or part-time. A student can have an undergraduate accounting major from either Marquette or another college or university, and the degree can be taken either immediately after the undergraduate program or at a later time.

The MSA consists of the following ten courses:

Courses

 

Required Accounting Courses

  • ACCO 6520 - Corporate and Not-for-Profit Reporting Issues
  • ACCO 6570 - Auditing: Ethical, Legal, Professional, and Reporting Responsibilities
  • ACCO 6511 - Taxation of Corporations, Partnerships, and Trusts

 

Business Courses (9-12 credit hours required)

Select 9-12 credits from other graduate level business courses (BUAD), or with the permission of the program director, other graduate level, non-business courses, EXCLUDING ECON 6000,

ACCO 6000, MANA 6000, MANA 6001, INTE 6000, ACCO 6100, BULA 6110 and MANA 6170.

 

Three Elective Accounting Courses (9-12 credit hours required)

  • ACCO 6530 - Advanced Cost Management
  • ACCO 5080/6080 - Analysis of Corporate Financial Statements
  • ACCO 5040/6040 - International Accounting
  • ACCO 5119/6119 - Tax Research Seminar
  • ACCO 6590 - Accounting Theory
  • ACCO 5050/6050 - Accounting Information Systems
  • ACCO 6525 - Governmental Accounting
  • ACCO 5045/6045 - International Taxation
  • ACCO 6931 - Seminar in Accounting

The program does not require a thesis, essay, or comprehensive examination.