Degree Requirements

The MSA Program consists of up to eighteen courses:  six management preparation courses, two accounting preparation courses, four accounting core courses, three elective courses, two integrative global courses, and one capstone course. 

Management Preparation Courses (18 credits)

May be waived with credit

MBA 610 Organizational Behavior
MBA 622 Operations and Data Analysis
MBA 630 Economic Analysis for Managers
MBA 640 Corporate Financial Reporting and Control
MBA 650 Value-Based Financial Management
MBA 660 Marketing: The Challenge of Managing Value

Accounting Preparation Courses (6 credits)

May be waived with credit

ACCT 801 Graduate Financial Accounting I
ACCT 804 Cost Information, Decision, and Control

Accounting Core Courses (21 credits)

*May be waived and an elective substituted

ACCT 802 Graduate Financial Accounting II
ACCT 824 Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis
ACCT 825 Corporate Financial Planning and Control
*ACCT 865 Technology and Financial Information Systems

Electives (9 credits)

Choose three elective courses. No more than two electives may be accounting electives. Students selecting the Public Accounting Track may have to take four electives depending upon prior coursework.

Public Accounting Track (12 credits) 
ACCT 803 Graduate Financial Accounting III
ACCT 805 Auditing and Assurance Services
BLLS 800 Business Law
TAX 801 Issues in Taxation I

Controllership (For-Profit) Track (9 credits)
ACCT 805 Auditing and Assurance Services
TAX 801 Issues in Federal Taxation I
TAX 862 Taxation of Corporations

Controllership (Not-for-Profit) Track (9 credits)
ACCT 871 Not-for-Profit Accounting and Control
TAX 801 Issues in Federal Taxation I
TAX 872 Tax-Exempt Organizations

Fraud Examination Track (9 credits)
ACCT 805 Auditing and Assurance Services
ACCT 806 Fraud Examination
BLLS 871 Corporate Crime and Financial Fraud

Information Technology Track (9 credits)
ACCT 805 Auditing and Assurance Services
ISOM 810 Management of Information Technologies
ISOM 825 Business Data Communications

Integrative global courses and capstone (9 credits)

Courses should be taken as late in the program as possible

MBA 780 Managing in the Global Environment
ACIB 872 Multinational Financial Analysis and Control
ACCT 861 Leadership in the Financial Professions

Course Waiver Policy

Students with appropriate academic business backgrounds may be eligible to waive some or all of the management and accounting preparation courses. Upon receipt of an application, all transcripts will be reviewed for waiver status. Applicants will be automatically notified of their waiver standing upon acceptance into the program.

Preparation courses that are not waived may be satisfied by taking specified MBA and ACCT course offerings. These courses may be taken upon enrollment in the Graduate Programs in Accounting at Suffolk.