Provides comprehensive coverage of finance theories/concepts and techniques essential to the professional accountant in his/her roles as financial information preparer, auditor and financial advisor.
This is a capstone course in management accounting which serves to review previous managerial concepts, to integrate them into a wider management decision making framework, and show how cost information needs to be related to the broader, strategic context of the organization.
Prepares accountants to be more influential in delivering their expertise in organizational decision making and to enable them to be appropriately influenced by non-accounting organizational members.
Focuses on the analysis, design and implementation of computer-based accounting and management information systems, using both traditional and object-orientated methods. The course also examines the impact of computer-based systems on internal control and auditing.
Covers the tax issues, problems and planning opportunities professional accountants encounter in providing tax services. The course also reviews the legal, economic and political framework within which tax policy is developed as well as the future direction of tax policy.
Using the viewpoint of the small business owner/manager and the small business this course examines the research, analytical, and planning processes required for the successful start-up and long run continuation of a business venture.
This is the capstone course of the master of professional accounting program. The course focuses on application and integration of the multi-disciplinary knowledge required for the successful practice of professional accounting.
Provides students an opportunity to develop research skills through completing a research project of importance to the accounting profession. The focus of this research can be financial accounting or reporting, management accounting, auditing or taxation.