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Be prepared for the next step of your career with comprehensive accounting and cross-functional business courses, including MBA-level and U-M electives. In just eight months, you’ll leave with the accounting knowledge, business acumen, and data analytics skills you need to power your success.
Begin your MAcc experience with a trip to Washington, D.C., through the EY Accounting and Public Policy Symposium core course. Gain a unique perspective on how accounting policy shapes business, while meeting policymakers and getting to know your fellow classmates.
Build your knowledge base with core accounting and financial reporting courses, taught by our world-renowned faculty. Choose which core electives you'd like to take in the fall, and round out your schedule by choosing from a wide variety of MBA electives across disciplines (data analytics, public policy, finance, law, etc.).
Core Courses
EY Accounting and Public Policy Symposium - ACC 695
Corporate Financial Research and Reporting - ACC 555
Information Systems Design - ACC 601*
Auditing & Assurance - ACC 630
Core Electives
Internal Control Systems - ACC 640
Financial Statement Analysis I - ACC 711
Financial Statement Analysis II - ACC 713
Managing the Maize and Blue Fund - ACC 725
Ethics and Negotiations for Accountants - BL 555
Tax of Financial Instruments - LAW 746
Taxation of Individual Income - LAW 747
Master of Accounting Electives
Please note: Courses displayed represent a selection of MAcc elective opportunities.
*This course may be waived by students who completed them in their undergraduate program, earning a grade of A or B. If one core course waiver is granted, the course hours must be replaced with an additional core elective. If an additional course waiver is granted, the hours must be replaced with elective study.
Continue with core courses and MBA electives to complement your understanding of accounting fundamentals. Grow your expertise, and take advantage of leadership and global opportunities along the way.
Core Courses
Auditing & Assurance - ACC 630
Advanced Financial Accounting - ACC 625
Financial Instruments and Structured Finance - ACC 565
Core Electives
Internal Control Systems - ACC 640
Financial Statement Analysis I - ACC 711
Financial Statement Analysis II - ACC 713
Managing the Maize and Blue Fund - ACC 725
Ethics and Negotiations for Accountants - BL 555
Tax of Financial Instruments - LAW 746
Taxation of Individual Income - LAW 747
Master of Accounting Electives
Please note: Courses displayed represent a selection of MAcc elective opportunities.
| Program Schedule | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall A | Fall B | Winter A | Winter B |
| Elective(s) | Elective(s) | Elective(s) | Elective(s) |
| Corporate Financial Research & Reporting ACC 555 | Information Systems Design ACC 601* | Advanced Financial Accounting ACC 625 | |
| Financial Instruments and Structured Finance ACC 565 | Auditing & Assurance ACC 630 | ||
| Federal Taxation ACC 561* | |||
| EY Accounting & Public Policy Symposium ACC 695 | |||
*This course may be waived by students who completed them in their undergraduate program, earning a grade of A or B. If one core course waiver is granted, the course hours must be replaced with an additional core elective. If an additional course waiver is granted, the hours must be replaced with elective study.
Start your MAcc experience with the EY Accounting and Public Policy Symposium in Washington, D.C. This core course offers an up-close look at how accounting impacts public policy at the highest levels, and includes discussions with top-level speakers and tours around the nation’s capital.
Learn By Doing
Put the knowledge and business concepts you learn in the classroom to use through Ross Experiences in Action-Based Learning (REAL), which include opportunities like our Living Business Leadership Experience (LBLE) course. Work in teams to help lead a business unit within a real company.
Become a better strategist in today’s data-driven business world and gain a competitive advantage in your career. Benefit from a wide variety of electives focused on big data and data analytics to develop your data processing and analysis skills.
Find opportunities to lead outside of the classroom through co-curricular activities hosted by the Sanger Leadership Center, the hub for leadership development and research on campus.
Prepare to lead successfully in high-pressure, high-stakes environments through this simulated business crisis.
Unlock your personal capabilities and learn how to increase your influence as part of two transformative Legacy Lab workshops.
Propose creative solutions to a Fortune 100 company or highly-visible community organization in our annual Business+Impact Challenge.
Understand business from a new perspective through a short-term global experience.
Take a closer look at international business topics, like luxury brand management or global Fintech, in a winter-term course — then explore them abroad during your spring break.
