Our graduates hold positions in regional, national, and international organizations such as:
Bank of America
BB&T
Citigroup
Deloitte & Touche
Dixon Hughes
Drake Enterprises
Ernst & Young
Gabler Molis
Gould Killian
Grant Thornton
Johnson Price & Sprinkle
Mission Hospitals
KPMG
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Reznick Group
Sonopress
Volvo
The MAcc program at WCU was a tremendous boost as I began my career in public accounting. The program was convenient as it allowed for me to work full-time at a CPA firm while taking graduate level classes and the professors and course topics were instrumental in bringing together accounting concepts and theory with their practical use in public accounting.
Shon P. Norris, CPA
Partner
Gould Killian CPA Group, P.A.
Core classes of the Master of Accountancy program are offered evenings and weekends in the graduate center located in Karpen Hall on the campus of UNC-Asheville.
In addition to an acceptable score on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) applicants must submit transcripts showing completion of an undergraduate degree from an accredited institution of higher learning with an acceptable GPA. In addition to those with an undergraduate degree in business, the program encourages application from students with degrees in other fields. In any event, students must satisfactorily complete courses in financial accounting, cost accounting, taxation, statistics, management, microeconomics, and finance as prerequisites to the program.
Program Prerequisites
- three semester hours of intermediate accounting
- three semester hours of cost accounting
- three semester hours of income tax accounting
- three semester hours of statistics
- three semester hours of management principles
- three semester hours of microeconomics
- three semester hours of financial management.
Program Requirements (30 hours):
Core Courses (21 semester credit hours)
- ACCT 605 - Accounting Theory and Practice I
- ACCT 615 - Accounting Theory and Practice II
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ACCT 616 - Accounting Theory and Practice III
- ACCT 620 - Income Tax Theory and Applications
- ACCT 625 - Advanced Accounting Information Systems
- ACCT 640 - Auditing
- LAW 640 - Public Accounting Regulatory Environment
Other Elective Credits (9 hours)
- 9 hours of other elective courses. Students may select courses from graduate business offerings as approved by the program director to satisfy the remaining number of elective hours.
Students who meet all entrance requirements and enroll on a full-time basis can complete the program in 12 to 18 months. Part-time students, by completing 2 courses each semester and one each summer can complete the program in 24 months. A student may elect to take up to 6 years to complete a graduate degree.
- M.Ac. program requirements
- Catalog listing for graduate courses
- Frequently Asked Questions - Master of Accountancy
- Prerequisite equivalents
- Contact the Director of the Master of Accountancy Program:
Dr. Susan Swanger
Phone: 828-227-3525
Email: swanger@email.wcu.edu