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There will always be an urgent need and high demand for trained accountants. Numerous opportunities exist for job satisfaction and career advancement for students who are motivated to further their accounting education.
Fortunately for America’s aspiring number crunchers, many great opportunities for quality graduate accounting education await within balmy Arizona climes.
Arizona State University (“ASU”)
W.P. Carey School of Business, School of Accountancy
Besides being among the nation’s biggest business schools, W.P. Carey School of Business is among the best-known commerce academies in the entire world. Extraordinary faculty research contributions and exceptionally high quality of graduate business education are the strengths of this great school.
Master of Accountacy (“MACC”)
W.P. Carey’s MACC consistently ranks within the country’s top twenty graduate business degree programs. This is most likely due to a self-stated focus on indelible alteration of the entire face of commerce via cutting-edge accounting solutions. An impressive list of large conglomerates that frequently employ graduates featured on its website illustrates MACC’s accomplishment of this feat.
MACC’s 36-credit/150-hour curriculum is quite comprehensive and fulfills all educational perquisites of Certified Public Accountant (“CPA’) licensure. It includes a set of eight different educational modules designed to ensure importation of all advanced and basic business ideologies, including:
• Advanced Auditing
• Advanced Financial
• Accounting Forensic
• Accounting Controls Analysis and Non Profit
• Accounting Performance Measurement
• Advanced Managerial Accounting Shareholder Value Creation & Financial Statement Analysis
• Taxes and Business Strategy
• Professional Accounting Research
Master of Taxation (“MTax”)
MTax curricular components equip students with the specialized, exacting skills so highly coveted by private and public sector business organizations. Chief among these are tax law administration and consultation. Coursework content satisfies academic requirements for CPA licensure and features a format that includes:
• Multi Jurisdictional Tax 1
• Multi Jurisdictional Tax 2
• Tax Research and Property Transactions
• Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders
• Taxation of Pass-Through Entities
• Taxes & Business Strategy
• Shareholder Value Creation & Financial Statement Analysis
• Performance Measurements and Advanced Managerial Accounting
• Family Tax Planning and Wealth Transfer Taxation
Accreditation
W. P. Carey School of Business at ASU and the above-mentioned programs are accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (“AACSB”). Accreditation by AACSB denotes the utmost quality of business school academic accomplishment, and is the sole U.S. Department of Education standard of recognition for graduate business education.
Contact
David Muller
Phone: (480)-727-7585
E-mail: David.Muller@asu.edu
Website URL – http://wpcarey.asu.edu/masters-phd.cfm
University of Arizona (“UA”)
Eller College of Management
UA’S Eller College is on a self-stated academic mission to develop and support a learning and scholarly community of integrity and knowledge. Via this mechanism, the College seeks to advance a greater overriding goal of total business and societal metamorphoses.
Eller enjoys world renowned recognition as a distinguished academician bastion, research pioneer, curricular innovator, and exemplary educator of social responsibility and entrepreneurship. Among many other widely acclaimed and highly prestigious academic accolades, a recent Brigham Young University research productivity ranking pegged Eller College of Management as the nation’s Number One researcher in the tax and archival tax segments.
Department of Accounting, Master of Accounting Program (“MAcc”)
UA’s Department of Accounting has a quartet of self-stated missions, including:
• Providing high-caliber accounting education and supportive ancillary academic services
• Conducting highly selective and significant scholarly research of accounting themes for subsequent integration into its educational processes
• Creating a supportive departmental culture, individual and ideological diversity tolerance and respect, and a success-oriented educational environment
• Establishing mutually advantageous associations with governmental, alumni, and business communities
Department of Accounting, Master of Accountancy Program (“MAcc”)
Providing students with advanced accounting knowledge of versatility and broad-based practical applicability to maximize occupational options is the overriding learning outcome of this nine-month program. To ensure maximum advancement of this academic agenda, MAcc’s curriculum receives an annual comprehensive review by accounting experts who provide critical commentary and recommend any indicated adjustments.
Eller College’s Accounting Department designed its MAcc degree with a view toward providing thorough academic preparation for professional accounting and consultancy roles. Toward that end, it features advanced studies and practical skills development of managerial, financial, and tax accounting expertise. Besides fulfilling all academic prerequisites for CPA licensure, the 30-credit MAcc degree program offers students a trio of sub-specialty “tracks” that include Entrepreneurship, Audit, and Tax.
Department of Accounting, Master of Science Accounting Program (“MSA”)
MSA has comparable emphases as that of its above-described MAcc analogue. “Flexibility” and “foreign student accommodation” are the stated distinguishing catchphrases between the two. The MSA curriculum has a general educational inclination toward preparing students for professional accounting and consultancy roles through imparting sophisticated knowledge bases and skills in managerial and/or financial accounting. Moreover, it aims to assist students further by satisfying all academic requirements for subsequent CPA licensure.
The 30-credit MS curriculum includes completion of a comprehensive MSA exam as a condition of degree conferral. Students may complete up to 12 credits of general -accounting or advisor-approved non-accounting coursework to satisfy the 30-credit aggregate required for program completion. The 18-credit balance consists of mandatory “core” accounting courses.
Although completion of 18 core credits is mandatory, students may choose from a “menu” of classes with varying subject matter, all of which count toward satisfying the core requirement. The sole exception to this rule is International Communications. All students must successfully complete that course irrespective of individual selections for other non-core categories.
Accreditation
UA’s Eller College of Management has held AACSB accreditation since 1948.
Contact
Eller College of Management
McClelland Hall 301
P.O. Box 210108
Tucson, AZ 85721-0108
Phone: (520) 626-3177
Fax: (520) 621- 3742
Email: accounting@eller.arizona.edu
Website URL – http://www.eller.arizona.edu/degrees/
