The M.P.Acc. program is designed to prepare candidates as professional accountants in public practice and industry. The program consists of eleven courses taken over two consecutive summer semesters (May through August). The courses include advanced study in accounting, assurance, taxation, and expose candidates to financial and strategic management, the modern business environment, information systems and entrepreneurship. The program also develops candidates’ personal and professional competencies such as ethical behaviour, independence, integrity, critical thinking, strategic problem solving, and written and verbal communication skills through a series of workshops and seminars.

Successful candidates are prepared to challenge professional accounting qualifying examinations (i.e. the Chartered Accountants’ Uniform Evaluation UFE). While this is not a requirement of the program, candidates often obtain business and accounting work experience during the eight-month period between summer semesters.

Prospective students seeking more information about the Master of Professional Accounting program at the Edwards School of Business are invited to visit the Edwards MPAcc website at www.edwardsmpacc.ca or e-mail mpacc@edwards.usask.ca.

Prospective students with non-Canadian undergraduate credentials should consult the “International Applicants” web page under the “Prospective Students” section of the Edwards M.P.Acc.’s website.

In 2006-07, applications are not being accepted for the M.Sc. in Accounting program. The M.Sc. program, offered in the area of accounting, represents an intensive analysis of the discipline. Course work and thesis are directed towards an examination of the current status and the evolution of accounting thought as well as that of various organizations and structures which the profession has developed. The level of course work will assume that students have a very strong background in accounting. At a minimum, candidates for admission should be either undergraduate accounting majors or professional accountants. Enrolment will be restricted to four or five students a year. The program contains several integrating viewpoints and approaches. First is a concern with examining and recognizing the interrelated nature of the various aspects of accounting - in effect the unity of accounting thought. Second, the program views the discipline of accounting as being intimately related to the profession itself - its organization, role, evolution, leadership, etc. - and therefore considers these as appropriate areas for academic inquiry. Third, each course in the program is designed to produce in the student an awareness of the most recent accounting research. Areas of research under investigation by faculty The Accounting Department's faculty are interested in a number of different areas of research: financial statement analysis, accounting education, judgment in auditing, audit-management conflict, audit risk, accounting academic-practitioner interface, business valuation, disclosure strategy, international accounting, accounting information and capital markets, and management accounting and control. Prospective students requiring more information about the Master of Science in Accounting program at the University of Saskatchewan are invited to visit the M.Sc. in Accounting website or write the Director of the Master of Science in Accounting program.