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This undergraduate degree provides a solid foundation for students planning to pursue a variety of accounting careers in industry, government, or public accounting. Students completing this academic plan may apply for the competitive MBA-ACC program, one of several avenues for a student to complete the 150 units needed for the CPA exam.
This program is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

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Program Overview

Key Highlights

The goal of our program is to prepare our graduates for their first position in the field of accounting and to give them the skills to continue to progress throughout their careers.
In pursuit of this goal, the Accounting Area seeks to continuously improve the curriculum to ensure that our graduates possess those core competencies which are most closely aligned with the value contributed by accounting professionals. Accordingly, the NAU Accounting Program follows the recommendations contained in the American Institute of CPAs’ (AICPA) Core Competency Framework and the American Accounting Association’s (AAA) Accounting Education Change Commission (AECC) Assessment for the New Curriculum: A Guide for Professional Accounting Programs. These competencies support the concept of learning as a continuum that begins in an academic setting and continues with life-long professional education and experience. This core competency framework focuses on skills and is not necessarily structured around traditional subject areas. While knowledge requirements will change with time, these core competencies have long-term value and will support a variety of career opportunities. Further, by basing curriculum guidance on professional expectations, the Program Objective aims to ease transition from student to professional.
Technical Accounting Knowledge
  • Measurement and Reporting: Analyze financial, business, and tax information and appropriately apply a given measurement and reporting method
  • Risk Analysis: Identify risks of negative outcomes and evaluate controls that mitigate such risks through prevention or detection and correction
Professional Skills
  • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving: Use appropriate analytical techniques to identify a business problem, generate and compare alternatives, and develop a solution
  • Leveraging Technology to Develop and Enhance Core Competencies: Appropriately use spreadsheets and other software to build models and simulations. Access appropriate digital relevant standards, rules, and other information to obtain decision support
  • Communication: Communicate clearly and objectively and, where applicable, using applicable standards of disclosure or reporting
Professional Integrity, Responsibility, and Commitment
  • Professional and Legal Responsibilities: Identify issues that may present ethical challenges and apply ethical and applicable professional codes of conduct
  • Leveraging Technology to Develop and Enhance Core Competencies: Appropriately use spreadsheets and other software to build models and simulations. Access appropriate digital relevant standards, rules, and other information to obtain decision support
  • Professional Development: Develop an understanding of expectations regarding professionalism and career management

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  1. Osman Ehtsham April 28, 2020 at 10:44AM

    "Accounting & Finance has provided me with the fundamental skills to not only approach the (graduate) role in the first place, but do so confidently knowing I am well equipped to deal with whatever is thrown at me. Mixed with our traditional academic modules were more practical modules focusing on employability and real-life skills."

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Level 1 - Core – ACC 205 - Introduction To Business Law(3 units)
  • Description: An introduction to business-related legal, regulatory, global, and ethical issues. Topics include contract law, intellectual property, employment law, business structures, and alternative dispute resolution. Letter grade only.
  • Description: Introduces theory and practice in the preparation, analysis, and interpretation of general purpose financial statements for external users. Letter grade only.
  • Description: Introduces the development and analysis of accounting information for managerial planning and control. Letter grade only.
  • Description: Basic business statistics including a review of descriptive measures, selected discrete probability distributions, selected continuous probability distributions, and statistical inference; statistical decision making, correlation, and regression. Letter grade only. Course fee required.
  • Description: Overview of a market economy; analysis of supply and demand; using graphical techniques; consumer behavior; production and costs; determination of prices in various product and resource markets; causes and consequences of income distribution, international economics. Letter grade only.
  • Description: Measurement of national economic variables; determination of output, income, employment, and price levels through aggregate supply and demand analysis and related graphical techniques; business cycles, fiscal and monetary policy, global implications of international trade and production. Letter grade only.

  • Description: Surveys financial operations in relation to other business functions; internal financial activities, sources of funds, and involvement with money and capital markets; basics of financial analysis; understanding of financial system. Letter grade only.

  • Description: Introduces computer and information systems, including the development and hands-on use of applications designed for communications, decision support, and database management. Letter grade only. Course fee required.

  • Description: Concepts, techniques and applications of systems of linear equations, probability, data and distributions, function concepts and graphs, limits, differentiation, optimization, and applications related to business. Fulfills liberal studies mathematics foundation requirement. Letter grade only.

  • Description: Students become competent with terminology and concepts of operations, supply chain, and process management. The course explores impacts of operations management decisions on other areas of operations and all other business functions. Students are challenged to apply critical thinking skills and quantitative models in forecasting, project management, inventory control and statistical process control to generate solutions to operations management problems. Letter grade only.

Level 1 - Core – ACC 340 - Accounting Ethics
Description: This course is a study of accounting ethics, related professional responsibilities and their relationships with business issues. It covers the identification of ethical issues, analysis of the issues using a multiple frameworks and theories, and development of conclusions and action items to resolve those issues. Letter grade only.
Level 1 - Core – MGT 340 - Business Ethics
Description: This course covers the identification of ethical issues, analysis of the issues using a framework and multiple theories and development of conclusions and action items to resolve those issues. Letter grade only.
Level 1 - Core – (MKT 333 and MGT 300) or (MKT 333I and MGT 300I)
  • MKT 333 - Introduction To Marketing
    Description: Orientation to basic marketing concepts and practices. Topics include the impact of external forces on marketing decisions; marketing strategies; marketing aspects of business ethics and social responsibility; and global marketing. Letter grade only.
  • MGT 300 - Managing, Organizing And Leading
    Description: The environment of organizations, planning, organizing, leading, and reviewing processes and systems. Emphasizes strategic planning, teamwork, and process design. Letter grade only.
  • MKT 333I - Integrated Business Seminar - Marketing
    Description: Introduction to marketing. Discussion and application of strategic marketing concepts, external forces and application of strategic marketing concepts, external forces affecting marketing, social responsibility and global issues. Substitutes for MKT 333 but integrated with management and business communication. Letter grade only.
  • MGT 300I - Integrated Business Seminar - Management
    Description: Introduction to management. Discussion and application of strategic management concepts, teamwork, planning, organizing, leading, process and systems analysis. Equivalent to MGT 300 but integrated with business communications and marketing. Letter grade only.
Level 1 - Core – MGT 490C - Strategic Management
  • Description: Role of the general manager in dealing with strategic business challenges and providing leadership to the organization; integration of functional areas, policy formulation and implementation, multinational and ethical issues. Letter grade only.
Level 1 - Major – ACC 300 - Accounting Systems
  • Description: Introduces the function, analysis, design, and operation of accounting systems. Letter grade only.
Level 1 - Major – ACC 302 - Cost Accounting

Description: Introduces the compilation, analysis, and interpretation of cost-accounting information with emphasis on managerial uses for planning, control, and decision making. Letter grade only.

Level 1 - Core – ACC 355 - Financial Reporting I

Description: Current accounting objectives, principles, theory, and practice in the preparation, interpretation, and analysis of general-purpose financial statements for business entities. Letter grade only.

Level 1 - Core – ACC 355 - Financial Reporting I

Description: Current accounting objectives, principles, theory, and practice in the preparation, interpretation, and analysis of general-purpose financial statements for business entities. Letter grade only.

Level 1 - Core – ACC 356 - Financial Reporting II
Description: Current accounting objectives, principles, theory, and practice in the preparation, interpretation, and analysis of general-purpose financial statements for business entities. This course is a continuation of Financial Reporting I. Letter grade only.
Level 1 - Core – ACC 455 - Financial Reporting III
Description: Current accounting objectives, principles, theory, and practice in the preparation, interpretation, and analysis of general purpose financial statements for business entities. This course is a continuation of Financial Reporting II. Letter grade only.
Level 1 - Core – ACC 460 - Income Tax Accounting
Description: Introduces tax concepts and tax entities, the role of federal taxation in business decision-making processes, basic tax research and tax planning techniques. Letter grade only.
Level 1 - Core – ACC 480 - Auditing
Description: Conceptual and practical aspects of the examination of financial statements by independent accountants, objectives and techniques of internal control; standards of presentation and disclosure in financial statements; objectives and procedures of auditing practice, statistical sampling techniques, and auditing of EDP records. Letter grade only.
Level 1 - Core – ACC 480 - Auditing
Description: Conceptual and practical aspects of the examination of financial statements by independent accountants, objectives and techniques of internal control; standards of presentation and disclosure in financial statements; objectives and procedures of auditing practice, statistical sampling techniques, and auditing of EDP records. Letter grade only.
Level 1 - Core – ACC 405 - Advanced Business Law
Description: In-depth study of legal issues related to advising businesses from an accounting or senior management perspective, including contract law, securities law, administrative law, employment law, ethics and other legal topics. Letter grade only.
Level 1 - Core – ACC 456 - Governmental, Nonprofit & Noncorporate Accounting
Description: Accounting theory, objectives, principles, and practice in the preparation, interpretation, and analysis of financial statements for governmental and other nonprofit organizations and fiduciary relationships and partnership business entities. Letter grade only.

Admission Process

Please find below the detailed steps to be followed as a part of the admission process.

Admission requirements over and above admission to NAU are required. Admission to Northern Arizona University qualifies you for admission into the preprofessional program in The W. A. Franke College of Business. You must meet the following requirements to enter our professional programs:

Complete at least 56 units with a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 or better.

Complete the following courses with a grade of "C" or better in each course: ENG 105, MAT 121, ACC 205, ACC 255, ACC 256, ECO 201, ECO 284, ECO 285, ISM 120.

Complete six (6) different Pathways experiences (one pathway credit must be the Career Steps online module). Transfer students who have met all of the requirements listed above need to complete four (4) Pathways experiences (one pathway credit must be the Career Steps online module) during their first semester in The W. A. Franke College of Business.

If you have a 2.75 GPA in these courses and have satisfactorily completed Pathways activities designated by The W. A. Franke College of Business, we guarantee your acceptance into our professional program. If your average is less than a 2.75 but you have at least a 2.5 and have satisfactorily completed all designated Pathways activities, we admit you into the professional program on a space-available basis according to the rank order of your grade point average in these courses.

If you are in the preprofessional program and have completed all required courses with "C" or better, but have a GPA in those courses that is below the acceptable grade point average for admission to the professional program, you may repeat up to two of the required courses in which you earned a "C" to meet the minimum GPA requirement. You may only repeat a required course in which you earned a grade of "C" one time.

Program Fee

$700 per year

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Who is this program for?

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Typical offer - 112 UCAS tariff points.
We take into consideration a number of factors when assessing your application. It's not just about your grades; we take the time to understand your personal circumstances and make decisions based on your potential to thrive at university and beyond. A levels There are no specific subject requirements. BTEC Extended Diploma
DMM - there are no specific subject requirements.
Applicants on Access Programmes
There are no specific subject requirements.
International Baccalaureate requirements
112 points to include at least 2 HL subjects plus HL 3 or SL 4 in Maths.
Plus minimum of
GCSE English and Mathematics at grade C or 4 (equivalents accepted).
English language requirements
Minimum IELTS at 6.0 or the equivalent.
If you do not meet the IELTS requirement, you can take a University of Bradford pre-sessional English course. See the Language Centre for more details. For further information on English Language requirements please see the dedicated international entry requirements page.

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How much do I pay to block my seat?
Annual course fees are calculated based on a standard annual study load of 48 credit points. Except for graduate certificates which are half the annual study load or 24 points.
Refund Policy: (Programs without prep-session component)
Student must pay applicable caution money for the enrolment of the course. This will be adjustable against the total course fee payable by the student.
You can claim a refund for the fee paid at any time before the cohort start date by sending an email request to your Student Mentor and Admissions Counsellor with reasons listed. There shall be no refund applicable once the program has started. This is applicable even for those students who could not complete their payment, and could not be enrolled in the batch opted for. However, the student can avail pre-deferral as per the policy defined below for the same.
Once the student pays block amount, "any" refund shall be subject to deduction of ₹10,000 processing charges.
Student has to pay the full fee within 15 days of payment of caution money or cohort start date, whichever is earlier, otherwise, the admission letter will be rescinded and processing fee of ₹10,000 will be levied.
Refund shall be processed to an eligible student within 30 working days from the date of receipt of written application from him/her in this regard.
Deferral Policy: (Post Program Commencement)
If a student is facing severe issues in dedicating time to the course, we provide the opportunity for the student to defer to another batch.
A student can request for deferral only once and to either of the scheduled cohorts to start in the next 1 year to either of the next two consecutive cohorts from the start date of the initial batch in which the student was originally enrolled for.
The student will be required to pay a deferral fees of INR 30,000 along with the differential program fees between the two cohorts, if any.
The deferral request will be approved once the deferral fee is paid.
Till this is completed, the student will be assumed to be continuing in the same cohort.
The student has 7 days (including holidays and weekends) from the date of deferral request to make the payment of the deferral fee post which the deferral request will expire, and the student will continue as part of the current cohort.
If the student completes the deferral payment, the student's login will be disabled, the student will leave the deferred cohort and the student will start learning on the new cohort from the point of the last assignment that was graded in the deferred cohort. All grades and progress until that point will be carried forward as it is to the new cohort. For clarification, the grades of the graded assignments will be carried forward, whether or not the student had submitted these grading during the initial stage.
The deferral can only be requested during the batch for which the student has enrolled is ongoing. Once the batch has completed, deferral requests shall not be entertained. For clarification, the batch completion here shall mean the "last grace deadline" as communicated by upGrad.
Deferral Policy: (Pre Program Commencement)
If a student, due to unavoidable circumstances is unable to commence with the cohort and requests for a deferral before the cohort starts, we provide the opportunity for the student to defer to another batch.
However, the student will be required to pay 50% of the total course fee amount (inclusive of taxes) before the deferral can be approved. Till this is completed, the student will be assumed to be continuing in the same cohort.
A student can request for deferral only once and to either of the scheduled cohorts to start in the next 1 year to either of the next two consecutive cohorts from the start date of the initial batch in which the student was originally enrolled for.
The student has time till the current cohort launch date to make the payment of the 50% program fee, post which the deferral request will expire. Once the deferral window expires and the student now asks for a refund, the above-mentioned applicable refund policy will apply.
The fee applicable to the deferred student will be as per prevailing fee for the batch student has opted to defer to (No additional deferral fee is required to be paid). The student shall be liable to pay the differential program fees between the two cohorts if any.

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