Accounting (ACCT)
ACCT 511 Advanced Business Law for Accountants 3 Credit Hour(s)
Online Prerequisite: Financial Accounting with a score of 3 and Managerial Accounting with a score of 3 and Intermediate Accounting I with a score of 3 and Intermediate Accounting II with a score of 3 and Cost Accounting with a score of 3 and Auditing with a score of 3 and Taxation with a score of 3
This advanced course seeks to equip the student with an in-depth understanding of business law specifically as it relates to the legal issues that are encountered by certified public accountants. This course is designed to further the student's knowledge and understanding of the law in such areas as the Uniform Commercial Code, contracts, securities regulation, organizational structure and formation, ethics, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, property and insurance, and other forms of government regulation of business.
Offered: Online
ACCT 521 Advanced Cost Accounting 3 Credit Hour(s)
This course will examine the importance of analyzing and managing costs; activity-based management, process costing and cost allocation; planning and decisions making, and evaluating and managing performance. This course is designed primarily for accounting/finance majors who seek careers or are already employed in for profit corporations or not for profit organizations as public (such as CPAs) or private (such as controllers and/or CMAs or CFMs) accounting/business leaders in a fast changing, highly technically oriented society.
Offered: Online
ACCT 531 Accounting Information Systems 3 Credit Hour(s)
Online Prerequisite: Financial Accounting with a score of 3 and Managerial Accounting with a score of 3 and Intermediate Accounting I with a score of 3 and Intermediate Accounting II with a score of 3 and Taxation with a score of 3 and Cost Accounting with a score of 3 and Auditing with a score of 3
This course builds upon the student's existing basic knowledge of how accounting information systems function in today's business environment. It strongly emphasizes the internal control features necessary to provide accurate and reliable accounting data as it looks at how accounting information is recorded, summarized, and reported in both manual and computerized systems. Internal control as it applies to production processes as required by Rule 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is part of this course.
Offered: Online
ACCT 612 Tax Research and Jurisprudence 3 Credit Hour(s)
This innovative course seeks to equip the student with an in-depth understanding of the best tax research methods while providing the student with the opportunity to analyze the statutory and judicial doctrines that collectively give rise to the conceptual framework of tax law. The students will engage in tax research that will give them the opportunity to understand, analyze, and apply these familiar tax doctrines to a host of sophisticated and contemporary fact patterns.
Offered: Online
ACCT 614 Estate, Trust, and Gift Taxation 3 Credit Hour(s)
This course explores the taxation of estates, trusts, and gift returns, with a focus on estate planning.
Offered: Online
ACCT 616 Advanced Topics in Individual and Pass-through Taxation 3 Credit Hour(s)
This course examines the various taxation implications of pass-through entities, particularly as they apply to an individual's personal tax return.
Offered: Online
ACCT 618 Advanced Topics in Corporate Taxation 3 Credit Hour(s)
This course explores current topics within the field of corporate taxation, as well as the impact of corporate taxes on shareholders.
Offered: Online
ACCT 622 Advanced Auditing 3 Credit Hour(s)
This advanced course provides students with actual applications of auditing procedures by exploring cases in which auditing was prominent and includes: Auditor's Ethical Responsibilities, Auditor's Responsibility to Detect Fraud, Event leading to creation of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Broad (PCAOB) and Classic Court Cases affecting auditors.
Offered: Online
ACCT 632 Advanced Financial Accounting Theory 3 Credit Hour(s)
This advanced course in financial accounting theory presents an in-depth analysis of the historical development of accounting theory and its application to current and future accounting issues. The course utilizes a case approach that provides a blend of theory, practice, and research. The course enhances critical thinking skills by synthesizing the professional accountant's understanding and knowledge of accounting theory with the resolution of real world accounting problems. The course incorporates a global perspective with respect to the development and analysis of accounting standards.
Offered: Online
ACCT 635 Advanced Research for Financial Reporting 3 Credit Hour(s)
This course explores current issues within the field of financial reporting by examining recent pronouncements from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), and how those pronouncements will affect financial reporting.
Offered: Online
ACCT 642 Accounting Ethics 3 Credit Hour(s)
This course evaluates accounting ethics research in the context of a Christian worldview perspective and in relation to the development of the profession's code of professional conduct. The course examines the major ethical systems that exist today and distinguishes those that are compatible with a Christian worldview to enable the student to develop a sound framework for ethical decision making. The course present an in-depth analysis of the two prevailing ethical systems (rule deontology and utilitarianism) advocated for the accounting profession and examines their appropriateness in resolving accounting ethics dilemmas as they relate to the profession's code of conduct. The course also presents an ethical decision making model based on the profession's code of professional conduct that is compatible with a Christian worldview.
Offered: Online
ACCT 650 Corporate Governance and Fraudulent Financial Reporting 3 Credit Hour(s)
This course examines corporate fraudulent financial reporting and the impact on corporate governance issues.
Offered: Online
ACCT 654 Fraud Examination 3 Credit Hour(s)
This course provides an overview of the field of fraud examination, and discusses potential techniques to prevent fraud.
Offered: Online
ACCT 660 Information Technology and Fraud 3 Credit Hour(s)
This course explores how information technology may be utilized as a tool to prevent and detect fraud
Offered: Online
ACCT 697 Special Topics in Accounting 3 Credit Hour(s)
Topics of special interest not included in the regular department offerings. May be taken more than once, but no topic may be repeated.