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Accounting-Cl (ACCT)

ACCT 501 Financial Statement Analysis (3) Study of financial reporting, financial statement analysis, capital markets, asset pricing and impact of ethical, legal, regulatory and environmental concerns.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite: admission to M.B.A. or MS/IS Program  

ACCT 540 Accounting for Managerial Decisions (2) Application of accounting to monitoring and improving the internal operation of an organization.
Effective: Fall 2005
Prerequisite: ACCT 501  

ACCT 545 Strategic Cost Management (3) Current managerial accounting topics such as activity-based costing, theory of constraints, performance measures and their use in organizations.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite: ACCT 540  

ACCT 561 Financial Statement Analysis II (3) The exploration of conventional and advanced methods of analyzing financial statements, including earnings quality and financial distress assessment.
Effective: Summer 2004
Prerequisite: ACCT 501  

ACCT 571 Strategic Tax Planning (3) Study of strategic aspects of tax for planning business operations, growth, expansion, capital transactions, and transfer of wealth.
Effective: Summer 2004
Prerequisite: ACCT 501  

ACCT 574 Accounting and Management Control Systems (3) Study of theories, practices and issues associated with accounting and management control as reflected in relevant literature.
Effective: Summer 2004
Prerequisite: ACCT 501  

ACCT 590 Colloquium (1-3) Continuing seminars that consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.
Effective: Fall 2009
 

ACCT 596 Individual Studies (1-9) Creative projects, including research and design, that are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Spring 2002
 

ACCT 597 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Spring 2002
 

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