Online Master of Accountancy
Acquire valuable organizational and management skills along with the financial record-keeping expertise companies seek as you prepare to fill a variety of high-level roles with accounting firms and business enterprises in this 100% online graduate program.
Program Overview
Discover why our 100% online Master of Accountancy stands out
In the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Online MAcc program, you will build on your base knowledge of accounting principles and business applications to further develop the analytical and problem-solving skills used to inform financial decision-making. This program can also be applied to the 150 hours required to take the Uniform Certified Public Accountant Examination.
In this accredited master’s program online, you will study auditing and assurance services; the use of information systems in accounting, forensic accounting, taxation and business strategy, and more. Our curriculum also offers courses on oil, gas and energy as well as information-systems accounting.
$15,210*
12-20 months
30**
$15,210*
12-20 months
30**
The MAcc online program will enable you to:
- Gain an understanding of accounting theory within the context of policy setting and financial reporting
- Comprehend advanced management accounting issues including cost behavior, activity-based costing, budgeting, pricing, cost management, capital investment, and inventory management
- Study external auditing processes including the documentation, testing and evaluation of internal controls, as well as the design and implementation of corroborative substantive tests
- Complete an advanced study of taxation as it applies to sole proprietorships, C and S corporations, partnerships, limited liability entities, and fiduciaries
- Develop procedures for identifying the applicable accounting issues, locating appropriate authority, and communicating the results of professional research
- Apply methods and technological tools used to detect occupational fraud. These include the steps in conducting an investigation, use of technological tools, witness and suspect interviewing techniques, investigation report writing, and expert testimony.
- Explore the integration of financial accounting, auditing, taxation, managerial accounting, and accounting information systems to assess their relationship individually and collectively to business decision-making
- Gain an understanding of accounting theory within the context of policy setting and financial reporting
- Comprehend advanced management accounting issues including cost behavior, activity-based costing, budgeting, pricing, cost management, capital investment, and inventory management
- Study external auditing processes including the documentation, testing and evaluation of internal controls, as well as the design and implementation of corroborative substantive tests
- Complete an advanced study of taxation as it applies to sole proprietorships, C and S corporations, partnerships, limited liability entities, and fiduciaries
- Develop procedures for identifying the applicable accounting issues, locating appropriate authority, and communicating the results of professional research
- Apply methods and technological tools used to detect occupational fraud. These include the steps in conducting an investigation, use of technological tools, witness and suspect interviewing techniques, investigation report writing, and expert testimony.
- Explore the integration of financial accounting, auditing, taxation, managerial accounting, and accounting information systems to assess their relationship individually and collectively to business decision-making
- Gain an understanding of accounting theory within the context of policy setting and financial reporting
- Comprehend advanced management accounting issues including cost behavior, activity-based costing, budgeting, pricing, cost management, capital investment, and inventory management
- Study external auditing processes including the documentation, testing and evaluation of internal controls, as well as the design and implementation of corroborative substantive tests
- Complete an advanced study of taxation as it applies to sole proprietorships, C and S corporations, partnerships, limited liability entities, and fiduciaries
- Develop procedures for identifying the applicable accounting issues, locating appropriate authority, and communicating the results of professional research
- Apply methods and technological tools used to detect occupational fraud. These include the steps in conducting an investigation, use of technological tools, witness and suspect interviewing techniques, investigation report writing, and expert testimony.
- Explore the integration of financial accounting, auditing, taxation, managerial accounting, and accounting information systems to assess their relationship individually and collectively to business decision-making
Accountancy career opportunities:
- Certified Public Accountant
- Auditor
- Financial Analyst
- Corporate Controller
- Chief Financial Officer
- Certified Public Accountant
- Auditor
- Financial Analyst
- Corporate Controller
- Chief Financial Officer
The College of Business at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). The TAMU-CC College of Business is one of only 193 business schools worldwide holding dual accreditation in both business and accounting programs.
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Tuition
Take a closer look at our affordable tuition
The Online MAcc program at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi provides an affordable pathway to earning a respected graduate degree. Tuition is the same for in-state and out-of-state students.
Tuition and fees are subject to change without notice by action of the Board of Regents.
Additional Fees
Master's degrees require a one-time, non-refundable application fee of $50 for U.S. residents and $70 for international applicants. Applicants requesting to change term of entry to a future term, within the year, may request this change one time without submitting a new application fee.
A $50 late fee is assessed for tuition payments made after the deadline.
Courses may be subject to proctoring exams up to $75 plus late fees.
Financial Aid Can Help Pay Your Tuition
Scholarships and loans are available. The application period for the academic year began January 1st. The application is valid for Fall, Spring, and Summer terms. Complete the FAFSA, available online at Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Enter Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's Federal School Code (011161) in Step 6 on the FAFSA form.
Financial Aid Contact Information
Financial Aid OfficeTexas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Office of Student Financial Assistance
6300 Ocean Drive, Unit 5772
Corpus Christi, TX 78412-5772
Phone: 361.825.2338
Fax: 361.825.6095
[email protected]
Veteran Affairs Contact & Benefit Information
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Veterans Affairs OfficeTexas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Veterans Affairs Office
6300 Ocean Drive, Unit 5775
Corpus Christi, TX 78412-5775
Phone: 361.825.2331 or 361.825.3610
Fax: 361.825.2533
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Calendar
Dates you need to know for the Online MAcc degree
Take advantage of our flexible, 100% online format with 7-week courses and several start dates throughout the year. Find the most convenient start date for you and apply online by the corresponding application due date.
Term | Application Deadline | Missing Documents Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline | Course Start Date | Course End Date |
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Fall 2 | 9/20/24 | 10/3/24 | 10/14/24 | 10/8/24 | 10/15/24 | 12/4/24 |
Spring 1 | 12/1/24 | 12/13/24 | 1/20/25 | 1/14/25 | 1/21/25 | 3/17/25 |
Spring 2 | 2/21/25 | 3/7/25 | 3/17/25 | 3/11/25 | 3/18/25 | 5/5/25 |
Summer 1 | 4/25/25 | 5/9/25 | 5/14/25 | 5/12/25 | 5/15/25 | 7/3/25 |
Dropping a Course While Remaining Enrolled in Other Courses
A student dropping a course or courses yet remaining enrolled in the University for at least one course on or before specified date may be subject to a 100% refund of applicable tuition and fees according to the schedule.
Withdrawing from All Courses for the Term
A student officially and completely withdrawing from the University during the semester may be subject to a refund of applicable tuition and fees according to the schedule.
A review of accounts is done at the conclusion of the withdrawal refund period to insure proper payment of tuition and fees. Refunds will be processed after each audit. Withdrawals are calculated based on the total tuition and fees, not the amount paid. Refunds are available in three forms: direct deposit, paper check or BankMobile Vibe account. To find out more information about the BankMobile Refund Process, go to BankMobile. Your billing, permanent and local addresses must be current in order to receive all vital information. Please update your addresses on SAIL or with the Registrar's Office.
“My job requires me to not only travel locally and regionally but also internationally. So, I need to have that flexibility of still being able to stay on top of my coursework. I'm in multiple different time zones, but it doesn't prevent me from studying or keeping up with assignments and deadlines.”
– Kim Andrew, TAMU-CC Online MBA Student
Admissions
Follow our streamlined admission requirements
Please review the admission guidelines for the Online MAcc program below. For specific questions or more details, view our Admission FAQs.
- 3.0 GPA or above in the last 60 hours: No GMAT scores are required
- 2.75 – 2.99 GPA in the last 60 hours: No GMAT scores are required and conditional admission will be granted
- Students with a conditional admission will be required to earn at least a 3.0 GPA in their first three graduate courses to continue in the program
- Enrollment in additional courses will not be allowed until acceptable GMAT scores are received
- 2.5 – 2.749 GPA in the last 60 hours: GMAT scores will be required
- School code is 6849. Generally, scores over 5 years old will not be accepted
- Submit a nonrefundable application fee ($50 domestic / $70 international)
- All admissions documents can be uploaded here
- All official transcripts documenting undergraduate and graduate coursework taken at any accredited college or university attended. These must be sent directly from the granting institution(s) to Recruitment and Admissions via email or to:
Office of Recruitment and Admissions
ATTN: Graduate Admissions
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
6300 Ocean Drive, Unit # 5774
Student Services Center 101
Corpus Christi, TX 78412-5774
**MBA Transfer Credit Policy - A student may transfer up to 9 semester hours of graduate credit [advanced courses only] from another AACSB university with the permission of the Director of Master's Programs, if it is determined appropriate to the degree being sought. Graduate coursework transferred from other regionally accredited institutions of higher education prior to acceptance cannot be older than seven years at the time the master's degree is awarded. Credit to be earned at other institutions after acceptance in the graduate program must be taken at an AACSB accredited program and approved in advance. Approval is granted at the discretion of the Director of Master's Programs.
***Applicants without an undergraduate accounting major could be required to complete up to 18 semester credit hours of undergraduate accounting courses (available online in seven week mini-terms) in addition to the 30 graduate semester credit hours in the Master of Accountancy program.
****Applicants need to be undergraduate accounting majors to meet TX face to face requirements for the CPA
If you have submitted an application for the online program and prefer to change your entry term, please complete the Change Term of Entry form and email to [email protected] or fax to (361) 825.5887. Applicants may request a change of term once a year. All additional requests will require a new application fee.
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Courses
Explore the courses for our online master’s in accounting
Students in our Online MAcc program must complete 10 courses (30 credit hours). The curriculum includes eight core courses and two business electives.
Learning Outcomes:
- Improve analysis, problem-solving, research, and decision-making skills.
- Create professional technical memos that integrate the research of professional standards with analysis of fact-based scenarios commonly found in accounting practice.
- Identify the role of the economic, regulatory, and technology environment in auditors’ decision-making (i.e., seeing the big picture).
- Demonstrate the ability to find and use resources (reference materials, data, and information sources) to solve problems.
- Develop abilities and skills in working with others as a team.
- Develop skills in the exercise of professional judgment.
- Developing ethical principles to guide ethical decision-making.
- Analyze and critically evaluate ideas, arguments, and points of view.
- Describe the latest trends in auditing and assurance services.
- Conduct and evaluate auditing research at the primary level.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify and describe basic computerized information systems concepts
- Read and design systems documentation to identify procedures and assess controls
- Identify main procedures of payroll and manufacturing cycles including controls, data stores, and reports generated by payroll cycle and its role in decision making
- Demonstrate the ability to present the accounting payroll cycle and its procedures, reports, and technologies with professional and technical presentation skills
- Develop working knowledge of coding hierarchy of parts, processes, and different types of inventory items within the conversion cycle
- List and explain the objectives, approaches, and risks in adopting and implementing Enterprise Resource Planning computerized accounting systems
- Identify and describe the general and application controls found in computerized accounting systems and the methods used to assess and control risks
- Use ACL software and apply multiple data verification techniques
Learning Outcomes
- Apply the research process to open-ended accounting and auditing problems (including gathering relevant facts, identifying accounting issues, brainstorming solutions, then researching and communicating the issues)
- Identify the research databases most relevant to a given research situation
- Be proficient using research databases, particularly Checkpoint, the FASB Codification, eIFRS, as well as other research resources
- Effectively communicate accounting issues in writing and deliver a presentation in an organized effective manner
Learning Outcomes
- Apply financial accounting, auditing, taxation, managerial accounting and accounting information systems knowledge to the analysis and evaluation of case studies
- Develop written and oral communication skills
- Understand the ethical considerations of accounting and business decisions
- Apply research and analytical skills to develop solutions to current accounting and business issues
Students must choose 3 of the following courses
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of oil and gas terminology
- Demonstrate an understanding of the basic methods of oil and gas accounting including successful efforts, and full cost pool accounting
- Develop an understanding of accounting for petroleum exploration, production, and construction activities
- Develop an understanding of the various entities utilized in oil and gas such as partnerships, joint ventures, and joint interest arrangements
- Develop an understanding of basic oil and gas taxation
- Demonstrate the ability to analyze oil and gas financial statements
- Demonstrate the ability to research, analyze and discuss alternative energy initiatives and related specific accounting methods and issues
- Demonstrate the ability to research, analyze, and discuss international energy accounting methods and issues
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand how investment strategies, financing strategies, and business strategies are linked through taxes.
- Understand how business decisions are affected by non-tax regulatory policies and non-tax costs.
- Use analytical, problem-solving, and research skills to frame tax planning strategies based on an understanding of all contracting parties, all taxes, and all non-tax costs.
- Use financial and other data to analyze and predict taxpayer behavior.
Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the three elements of the fraud triangle and apply it to case scenarios.
- Describe the traits of the most common occupational fraud schemes.
- Identify the steps necessary to conduct a forensic accounting investigation.
- Analyze evidence using technological tools commonly used in forensic accounting.
- Describe the types of questions for suspects and non-suspects in an interview.
- Analyze verbal responses and nonverbal behavior in an interview or presentation.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand competing approaches to the development of accounting theory including equity theories
- Identify attempts by authoritative bodies to develop accounting theory and critique their impact on accounting thought
- Analyze the conceptual framework and its influence on current standards
- Understand how academic research and the application of the scientific method contribute to accounting thought
- Apply research and problem-solving skills to current financial reporting problems
- Understand the similarities and differences between U.S. GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards and the related convergence projects
- Understand the impact of competing
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify and understand ethical theories, ethical reasoning, integrity, objectivity, independence, and other core values associated with the decision making of business executives, accounting, and other professionals.
- Gain ethics-related knowledge and apply general concepts of ethical behavior in decision-making process and dealing with various stakeholders.
- Apply ethical issues that influence business executives and other professionals to classic cases and to current issues in today’s global economy.
- Analyze accounting and business situations, identify ethical dilemmas, and apply appropriate ethical theory to resolve these in a socially responsible manner.
- Exercise professional and ethical judgment in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory environment.
- Synthesize the above concepts, rules, and theories, demonstrated through application pertaining to ethics cases and current issues.
Student must select 2 courses from graduate accounting electives not already taken OR graduate advanced business courses. Some possible electives are listed.
Learning Outcomes
- From the firm’s management perspective to be able to effectively identify the market structure that the firm competes in and its primary and secondary competitors
- Integrate the use of marginal analysis into the managerial decision-making process
Learning Outcomes:
- Know the role and function of the financial sector participants including banks, investment banks, mutual funds, securities markets and corporations
- Understand the function of management and role of corporate governance in firm success
- Be able to analyze key financial statements
- Use information contained in financial statements to evaluate firm performance and develop financial forecasts.
- Derive the free cash flow generated by a project or business and consider the implications of inaccuracies in forecasts.
- Understand interest rates and monetary policy including the term structure of interest rates and resulting yield curve
- Be able to perform security valuation using important valuation models and deriving the appropriate discount rates.
- Understand time value of money concepts, WACC, and capital budgeting techniques.
- Identify and apply appropriate decision criteria to determine whether real assets should be acquired or sold.
- Estimate an appropriate risk-adjusted required rate of return for evaluating investments in real assets.
- Understand how capital structure and payout policies affect firm value and growth.
Learning Outcomes
- An enhanced ability to manage organizations and their members by improving the skills for identifying causes of organizational events and devising action plans for influencing future events and behaviors
- An increased understanding of the roles of theory and research in management decision making
- Additional critical thinking skills for identifying organizational dynamics based on existing theories and research as applied to case-study analysis
- Interpret and integrate concepts and strategies into business practices
- Develop a working relationship with contemporary management challenges for the purpose of understanding, developing, analyzing, and preparing for consideration of management decisions
Learning Outcomes
- Appreciate the complexities of defining leadership and recognizing ways that the terms are used in society
- Identify and explain variables associated with leadership, including the role played by leader qualities, follower characteristics, and situational factors
- Appreciate the importance of ethical leadership
- Recognize the linkages between the concepts of power, influence, and leadership
- Understand the history of leadership theory development
- Understand the theory and principles behind important leadership, teamwork, and organizational skills
- Apply theory and skills to roles in workplaces and organizations
Learning Outcomes
- A deeper understanding of the entrepreneurial process, the art of innovation, and the process of transforming ideas into business models
- Hands-on experience in crafting business models and business plans
- Additional critical thinking skills for identifying entrepreneurial opportunities, creating business plans, and managing a start-up firm
- Interpret and integrate associated concepts and strategies into business practices
- Develop a working relationship with contemporary start-up and management challenges for the purpose of understanding, developing, analyzing, and preparing for consideration of associated management decisions
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the role of strategy in marketing management
- Develop analytical skills to understand a marketing problem
- Acquire basic skills to design appropriate marketing mix for a target market
- Understand the implementation of a marketing program from a managerial perspective
Learning Outcomes
- Understand how to effectively target, track, and reach social consumers
- Be able to identify and handle unique dynamics of social media interactions, in order to enable the development of an effective social media marketing strategy
- Know how to develop a social media marketing strategy and integrate it with elements of marketing mix
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify or define the set of decisions that operations managers make; the trends and challenges facing them; and the customer supplier relationships between them
- Describe or explain operations in a global environment and develop strategies for competitive advantage
- Describe or explain processes, process choices and layout strategies, and their impact on efficiency, effectiveness and customer service
- Describe total quality management, lean six sigma methods and tools for continuous improvement
- Describe or explain the development of operational policies such an inventory management and scheduling techniques
- Identify or define the resource planning process and the relationship amongst functional areas of the firm.
- Improve writing skills and develop critical thinking skills for problem solving.
Students in the Online MAcc program who do not have an undergraduate degree in Accounting may be required to complete these 4 courses (12 credit hours).
Students who are Non-Business Majors may be required to take the Core Prerequisites.
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