Master of Accountancy Online

Curriculum

The online Master of Accountancy is a non-thesis degree program and requires 30-42 credit hours, depending on previous coursework completed.

For course descriptions, please refer to the AU Bulletin.

Required Courses (12-36 hours)

ACCT 6110 Intermediate Accounting I* (spring, summer, and fall)
ACCT 6120 Intermediate Accounting II* (spring, summer, and fall)
ACCT 6130 Advanced Accounting Topics* (spring and fall)
ACCT 6300 Auditing and Assurance Services* (spring, summer, and fall)
ACCT 6410 Income Tax I* (spring, summer, and fall)
ACCT 6420 Income Tax II* (spring, summer, and fall)
ACCT 6510 Accounting Information Systems* (spring, summer, and fall)
ACCT 6520 Accounting Analytics* (spring, summer, and fall)
ACCT 7110 Research in Accounting (summer I)
ACCT 7300 Advanced Auditing and Assurance Services (spring)
ACCT 7410 Federal Tax Research (fall)
ACCT 7510 Integrated Accounting Applications (fall)
ACCT 7710 Graduation Requirement: Campus Residency (0 credit hours; spring)

* Students with prior accounting coursework may be eligible for course waivers that reduce the total credit requirement.

Elective Courses (6-18 hours)

ACCT 6210 Cost Accounting (spring, summer, and fall)
ACCT 6610 Governmental and Not-for-Profit Accounting (spring and fall)
ACCT 6700 Advanced Business Law (spring, summer, and fall)
ACCT 6810 Corporate Governance & Accounting Ethics (spring)
ACCT 7130 Financial Analysis & Valuation (fall)
ACCT 7320 Fraud Examination (summer I)
ACCT 7420 Corporate and Partnership Taxation (fall)
ACCT 7520 Enterprise Accounting Systems (summer II)
ACCT 7970 Advanced Special Topics in Taxation
BUAL 6600 Principles of Predictive Modeling (spring and fall)
BUAL 6610 Business Decisions with Predictive Modeling (spring, summer I, and fall)
BUAL 6650 Enterprise Management of the Big Data Environment (spring, summer, and fall)
BUAL 6660 Technical Aspects of Big Data Management (spring and fall)
FINC 7640 Advanced Investments (summer II and fall)
ISMN 6730: Security and Information Assurance (fall and spring)
ISMN 6740 Information Risk Analysis (spring and summer)
ISMN 6750 Information Technology Auditing (spring and summer)
ISMN 7880 Advanced Management Information Systems (summer I)

Campus Residency

Campus and online students are required to participate in a two and a half day campus residency during the final spring semester of the program. It begins on the last Wednesday of classes in April and concludes on the following Friday evening. During the residency, you will participate in the Auburn MAcc Leadership Summit which consists of business seminars, leadership workshops, and social events.

During the required campus residency, you are responsible for your own expenses including travel, hotel, some meals, etc.

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