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PPA Degree Requirements

Degree Requirements
The BBA degree will be awarded upon completion of the BBA requirements. PPA students will apply for and enter the Master of Accountancy (MAcc) program and receive the Master of Accountancy degree upon successful completion of the requirements for such degree.

Required Business Core
The PPA program follows the curriculum requirements for the university core and the business core for undergraduates. All PPA students must complete at least 45 hours of junior- or senior-level courses and satisfy all other AACSB accreditation requirements as specified in the Undergraduate Catalog. Coursework in the student’s concentration must be approved in advance by the student’s advisor.

Graduate Coursework
PPA students are required to take 30 semester hours of graduate coursework, including at least 21 hours in accounting. Graduate courses are integrated into the PPA curriculum beginning in the second semester of the fourth year.

 
 

Accounting Major (Professional Program)

Junior - Semester I
ACCT 3111 Intermediate Accounting I
ACCT 3314 Cost Accounting
MGMT 3315 Communicating in Business
ORMS 3310 Data Analysis and Statistics
MKTG 3310 Principles of Marketing
MISY 3310 Management Information Systems Concepts

Junior - Semester II
ACCT 3312 Intermediate Accounting II
ACCT 3321 Federal Income Tax I
BLAW 3310 Legal Environment of Business
FINA 3310 Financial Management I
MGMT 3312 Behavior in Organizations

Senior - Semester I
ACCT 3355 Accounting Information Systems
*PHIL 3340 Foundations of Professional Ethics
OPSY 4314 Operations Management
**ACCT 3315 Multinational Entities: Accounting and Consolidations
Undergraduate Accounting Elective

Senior - Semester II
ACCT 5351 Advanced Cost Accounting
ACCT 4311 Auditing Principles and Procedures
MGMT 4388 Administrative Policy and Strategy
Upper-level Non-Business Elective
Graduate Non-accounting Business Elective

Summer
ACCT 5355 Information Systems in Accounting
ACCT 5371 Tax Consulting, Planning and Research
Upper-level Nonbusiness Elective

Graduate - Semester I
ACCT 5341 Graduate Accounting Elective Advanced Auditing
FINA 5320 Managerial Finance
Graduate Accounting Elective

Graduate - Semester II
Graduate Accounting Elective
ACCT 5381 Accounting Theory
***MGMT 5355 Administrative Strategy and Policy

Footnotes
* University core.
** May substitute any undergraduate international business course.
*** Must be taken at the end of the program.
Students must comply with the college academic policies and requirements discussed earlier.

 



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