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Designed for accountants or accounting majors who want to become valued advisors to their organizations.
You will gain a greater understanding of the tools used for cleansing, transforming, and modeling data into actionable information supporting decision-making for accounting-related functions.
Become an expert user of data management tools like these:
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Power Query
- Power Pivot
- Alteryx
- Python
- SQL
Who should earn an MSBA in Accounting?
- Undergraduate accounting majors looking to sit for the CPA exam
- CPAs who want a skillset to make better data informed decisions
Program Details
- 30 Credits
- 2-Semesters
- On Campus
The curriculum encourages you to think critically and innovatively and grow as a leader to make informed data driven decisions.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Students recognize the benefits analytics can provide to decision makers throughout an organization's value chain and suggest alternatives for improvement.
- Students understand the different forms of analytics (descriptive, predictive and prescriptive) and can explain the use of informative, descriptive, and predictive questions.
- Students produce descriptive and analytical conclusions using Python, SQL, Tableau, Power BI and other current trending technologies.
- Students identify the inputs (resources required) for successful team processing.
Contact:
Hannah Johanson, Admissions Specialist
Call or Text: (509) 313-7047
Email: johansonh@gonzaga.edu
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Sample Course Progression
Fall
Course ID | Course Title | Course Credits |
MACC 600 | Orientation Workshop | 0 |
MSBA 601 | Power Query/Power Pivot | 3 |
MSBA 623 | Database Management | 3 |
MBUS 613 | Quantitative and Stats Analysis | 3 |
MACC 601 | Fundamental Tech for Business Analysis | 2 |
MBUS 633 | Team Building Intensive |
2 |
Elective – Choose one of the following | 3 | |
MTAX 604 | C Corporation Taxation | |
MTAX 605 | Partnership Taxation | |
MACC 660 | Advanced Financial Accounting | |
MACC 662 | Accounting Information Systems |
Spring
Course ID | Course Title | Course Credits |
MACC 611 |
Audit Analytics |
3 |
MSBA 622 | Data Science for Business | 3 |
MBUS 670 | Foundations of Project Management | 3 |
MBUS 626 | Info Systems Theory and Practice | 2 |
MTAX 619 | Data Automation | 1 |
MACC 664 | Professional Ethics | 2 |