Master of Accounting
Our Program
Although the Fisher College of Business MAcc program accepts applications regardless of academic background, the program has specific prerequisites that must be completed prior to entrance to the program. These classes make up the core of a typical US undergraduate accounting degree and include Intermediate Financial Accounting and Intermediate Cost Accounting. (Note: Completing the prerequisite coursework is only a portion of the MAcc application process and does not guarantee admission to the program.)
Curriculum overview
The Fisher MAcc program allows you maximum flexibility in meeting the program requirements. We strongly encourage you to think broadly about accounting, including its role in organizations, in markets and in society. We also encourage all Fisher MAcc students to design programs that develop their individual interests, skills, and potential for achieving career goals. We believe that flexibility in program design is consistent with developing individual capacity for both lifelong learning and rewarding careers. The areas of concentration below are advisory in nature - none are required to earn the degree.
A minimum of 45 total quarter credit hours is required to earn the Fisher Master of Accounting degree. Fourteen of these credits will be earned in the required core courses. The balance of credits can be earned in a combination of accounting and non-accounting elective courses. However, at least 23 of the 45 required credit hours must be earned in accounting courses, including 10 earned in AMIS 803: Foundations of Accounting and AMIS 804: Professional Research in Accounting. The suggested areas of concentration are suggested courses you may consider taking based on your interests.
CORE CURRICULUM (14 credit hours)
The core curriculum consists of three courses, two in accounting and one information systems:
-- AMIS 803 Foundations of Accounting (5 credits)
-- AMIS 804 Professional Research in Accounting (5 credits)
-- AMIS 834 Corporate Information Systems Management (4 credits)
These three courses lay theoretical and professionally-oriented foundations that support a wide range of work in elective courses.
ELECTIVE CURRICULUM (31 credit hours minimum)
The MAcc faculty continually develops new and challenging electives courses in response to evolving faculty interests and changes in the accounting environment. For purposes of gaining an overview of the elective curriculum, these courses, as presently constituted, are organized into six groups:
-- Foundations and Analysis
-- Auditing
-- Business Taxation
-- Financial Reporting and Analysis
-- Business Management and Control
-- Information Systems Management
Working with their advisor, students are free (but not limited) to choose courses across these groups to support their educational and career goals. The course lists shown below illustrate the range of differing focuses that are possible within the electives available to MAcc students.
Careers and Program Planning
One of the great advantages of studying accounting is the diversity of careers paths in which it plays a key role. Fisher MAcc students take positions in public accounting firms, financial services organizations, corporate business organizations, consulting firms, government agencies, and nonprofit enterprises, among other organizations. The high level of diversity that characterizes accounting careers paths justifies providing a wide range of choice within the elective course structure and encouraging a portfolio approach to planning a masters-level program. You should think about how you want your career to unfold and how your career moves may be supported by the courses you choose.
Foundations and Analysis:
AMIS 827 Information, Incentives, and Control System Design
AMIS 829 Financial Accounting Analysis (4)
AMIS 844 Financial Accounting Theory (3)
AMIS 894.29 Accounting Structure and Information (4)
Auditing:
AMIS 822 Assurance Services and Information Quality (5)
AMIS 894.22 Financial Fraud Detection (4)
AMIS 894.24 Accounting, Ethics, and Securities Law (4)
AMIS 894.28 Fraud Examination (4)
Business Taxation:
AMIS 826 Tax Planning for Managerial Decision Making (4)
AMIS 846 Business Taxation and Tax Planning (4)
AMIS 856 Professional Research in Taxation (4)
Financial Reporting and Analysis Acccounting:
AMIS 824 Corporate Financial Reporting (4)
AMIS 828 Financial Information and Valuation (4)
AMIS 842 Financial Statement Analysis (4)
AMIS 848 Financial Instruments, Derivatives, and Hedging (4)
AMIS 852 Government and Non-Profit Accounting (3)
Finance (as part of the financial reporting / analysis accounting concentration):
FIN 822 Security Markets and Investments (4)
FIN 824 The Stock Market (4)
FIN 825 International Finance (4)
FIN 826 Financial Institutions (4)
Business Management and Control Accounting:
AMIS 823 Managerial Accounting for Decision Making (4)
AMIS 825 Advanced Accounting for the Controllership Function (5)
AMIS 894.20 Leading for Profitable Growth (4)
Finance (as part of the business management and control accounting concentration):
FIN 811 Financial Decision Making (4)
FIN 821 Seminar in Corporate Finance (4)
FIN 828 Cases in Corporate Finance (4)
FIN 829 Risk Management and Financial Engineering (4)
FIN 870 Seminar in Real Estate (4)
Operations Management:
MGT 832 Operations Management Information Systems (4)
MGT 835 Operations Planning and materials Management (4)
Logistics:
MKTG 880 Logistics Management (4)
MKTG 881 Analysis and Design of Logistics Systems (4)
MKTG 885 Supply Chain Management (4)
Information Systems Management:
AMIS 653 Business Data Communications (4)
AMIS 657 Decision Support and Expert Systems (4)
AMIS 835 System Analysis and Design for Managers (4)
AMIS 837 Management of Corporate Data Resources (4)
AMIS 838 Emerging Technologies and Electronic Commerce (4)