Admission Requirements

Applicants must possess a bachelor’s degree with either an overall GPA of at least 2.8, a 3.0 in the last 60 hours, or a 3.2 in the last 30 hours.

Program Requirements

The Graduate Certificate in Financial Accounting Analysis consists of 17-20 hours of coursework from the following courses:

Required Leveling Courses (3 hours)

• ACCT 7100 - Accounting Methods and Reports
• FINC 7100 - Finance Fundamentals
• ECON 7100 - Foundations of Business

• (test out options available)

Required Courses (11 hours)

• ACCT 7305 - Analysis of Financial Statements
• ECON 7200 - Applied Problem Solving
• ECON 7313 - Economics and Global Business
• FINC 7311 - Applied Corporate Finance

Required Analytics Course (3 hours)

Choose one course from:

• BINS 7309 - Cloud-Based Business Intelligence
• FINC 5350 - Financial Behavior and Modeling
• FINC 5355 - Predictive Data Analysis

Elective Courses (3 hours)

Choose one from:

• ACCT 5322 - Federal Taxation II
• ACCT 5352 - Advanced Auditing
• ACCT 5381 - Legal, Regulatory and Ethical Environment for Accountants
• BINS 7309 - Cloud-Based Business Intelligence
• BINS 7304 - Business Applications for Decision Making
• FINC 5350 - Financial Behavior and Modeling
• FINC 5355 - Predictive Data Analysis
• FINC 5383 - Applied Equity Analysis
• FINC 7320 - Advanced Investment Analysis