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Course Descriptions

Accounting Majors | Non-Accounting Majors

Accounting Majors

Summer Semester Session I

MAC 8285 – Negotiation, Ethics & Relationship Management

Discusses the influences on stakeholder decisions/negotiations, and helps students develop sound planning techniques, and learn strategies and tactics to effectively and ethically resolve transactional and interpersonal differences.
3.000 credit hours

MAC 8240 – Performance Measurement & Strategic Cost Management

Provides a deeper understanding of activity based costing (ABC); activity based management (ABM); the cost of resource capacity; and the integration of ABC with the Theory of Constraints.

3.000 credit hours

MAC 8254 - Valuation Issues in Accounting

Exposes students to real-world valuation issues through case studies and actual financial statements, with an emphasis on how financial data is used when calculating a firm's value.

3.000 credit hours

 

Summer Semester Session II

MAC 8282 - Risk Management & Assurance Services

Provides a business process orientation for the modern financial statement audit, based on cross-functional perspectives from auditing, accounting, and business strategy.

3.000 credit hours

MAC 8220 - Taxes and Business Strategy

A conceptual overview of taxation in relation to planning and business strategy. Topics include: tax planning; tax policy objectives; ethics; calculation of ROI; general rules for taxation of business income and deductibility of common business expenditures.

3.000 credit hours

MAC 8280 - Advanced Topics Disclosure and Financial Reporting

A discussion about advanced financial accounting and reporting topics currently debated by the AICPA, the FASB, and SEC.

3.000 credit hours

 

Fall Semester (Online Courses)

MAC 8287 - Advanced Topics in Auditing, Fraud, and Accounting Information Systems

Provides a background on key issues being faced by auditors in dealing with accounting information systems in the current economic environment. This course relies on research, case analysis, presentations by audit professionals, and lectures.

3.000 credit hours

MAC 8265 - Ethical Issues in the Accounting Environment

Covers ethical theory and the history of accounting ethics as a background for an examination of current accounting scandals and the exploration of ethical issues in auditing, tax accounting, managerial accounting and other accounting professions.

3.000 credit hours

 

Spring Semester (Online Courses)

MAC 8290 - Advanced Business & Technical Writing

Provides development in advanced planning, writing and research skills used in composing professional documents; special attention is placed on skills regularly used in the field of accounting. Course activities reflect the variety of professional writing experiences that learners typically encounter in a business setting.

3.000 credit hours

MAC 8315 - Globalization Issues in Accounting*

Focuses on the impact of global issues on the accounting profession. Utilizing case studies, theory, and panel discussions from high-level professionals, accounting students learn how globalization affects the needs of clients and other stakeholders in relation to information systems, management, finance, and International Financial Reporting Standards.

3.000 credit hours

*can be taken in the fall or spring semester prior to summer MAC sessions.

Non-Accounting Majors

Suggested pre-requisite schedule to be completed before summer start date

Fall Semester

Intermediate Accounting I**
Federal Income Tax

Spring Semester

Intermediate Accounting II
Introduction to Audit

**Pre-requisite for Intermediate Accounting I and II include Financial and Managerial Accounting.