Accounting CPA Preparation MS

Overview
Pace has one hundred years of experience in preparing students for successful accounting careers. The relevance and innovation of our programs has resulted in our being awarded the prestigious AACSB Accounting Accreditation, a distinction that only 167 schools across the nation share. AACSB, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, is the premier accrediting organization for business schools in the world. Pace is among the fewer than 3% of business schools nationwide that have both professional and accounting accreditation from AACSB.

The Lubin School's MS in Accounting program is designed to provide an intensive, high-quality, specialized, professional education within the functional areas of accounting. The program provides students with a conceptual and analytical foundation, as well as an understanding of accounting theories and their applications. It is also designed to prepare students for CPA certification.

Program and Courses
The purpose of this course of study is to provide candidates with a conceptual and analytical foundation that will qualify them for a career as a CPA. Upon completion of the program, graduates will have achieved the required accounting academic qualifications for admission to the CPA examinations in New York State.

The program stresses the following: conceptual understanding of generally accepted accounting principles, application of conceptual knowledge of accounting, understanding of generally accepted auditing standards and procedures, understanding of legal and ethical principles and recognizing their implications in accounting situations.
The student's undergraduate/graduate transcripts will be reviewed in order to determine if any additional credits are needed to meet State CPA requirements.

Degree Requirements

Open only to students with an undergraduate or graduate business degree.

Foundation Courses (0–24)
MBA 640 Accounting for Decision Making
MBA 644 Macroeconomics in the Global Environment
MBA 646 Data Analysis and Decision Making
MBA 648 Managerial Finance
TAX 503 Fundamental Concepts of Taxation
TAX 504 Sales and Exchanges of Property
LAW 610 Business Law (or Equivalent)
ACC 662 Modeling of Information Systems*
* May be waived if the applicant has taken a computer science course in their undergraduate or graduate business program.

Accounting Specialization Core Courses (13)
ACC 613 Accounting for Planning and Control
ACC 615 Financial Accounting I
ACC 618 Financial Accounting II
ACC 620 Accounting Entities
Waiver of ACC 613, ACC 615 and ACC 618 would require substitution

Required Specialization Courses (14-17)
ACC 632 Auditing
ACC 635 Advanced Auditing Practice
ACC 649 Contemporary Accounting Issues
ACC 692 Research Project
TAX 612 Corporate Taxation for Accountants
ACC elective (required only after waiver of all core courses)

Total Credits: 30-51

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