The strategic importance of management accounting information is increasingly recognized in a fast-paced and globally-competitive business environment. The information is used extensively as key decision-making criteria in leading organizations. The Management Accounting concentration is focused specifically on contemporary management accounting and financial decision making.

The program includes theory and concepts, advanced technical knowledge and skills, and familiarization with the increasingly sophisticated tools and methodologies of the management accountant.

The program is flexible enough to accommodate persons with previous accounting or business backgrounds as well as persons with non-business backgrounds.  Students in the program are encouraged to apply for the CMA (Certificate Management Accountant) examination.

Topics included in the management accounting concentration are those most prominent in today's fast-paced and dynamically changing management environment:

:: Activity Based Management

:: Total Quality Improvement

:: Continuous Quality Improvement

:: Business Process Reengineering

:: Strategic Cost Management

:: Value Adding Processes

:: Benchmarking

:: Financial Process Reengineering

:: Strategic Uses of IT

:: Performance Measurement

To complete the concentration, students must take the following two courses:

:: ADVANCED MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING (ACC 502)

:: GRADUATE SEMINAR IN MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING (ACC 599)

    OR STRATEGIC EXECUTION FRAMEWORKS (SEV 621)

A dditionally, students must choose one course from among the following.

:: Financial Reporting (ACC 501)

:: Accounting Information Systems (ACC 503)

:: Corporate Planning (ACC 533)

:: Accounting Systems (ACC 535)

:: Valuation Practices (ACC 576)

:: Income Tax and Business Decisions (ACC 584)

:: The Role of Chief Financial Executive (ACC 586),

:: Accounting Information and Capital Markets (ACC 587)

:: Special Topic Courses (ACC 798). 

See campusconnect.depaul.edu for information about the prerequisites for graduate courses