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Accounting Certificate

The Pre-professional Studies in Accounting program is designed to fulfill coursework entry requirements of a graduate program in accounting or taxation. This curriculum and additional courses taken to reach the required 150 credits will allow the student to sit for the CPA exam in Maryland. Students also will have fulfilled the requirements to take exams for the Certified Management Accountant.

The requirement of this certificate emphasize economics, accounting, communications and business fundamentals that allow students to function in today's business environment. Graduates with broad technological or business background and finance/accounting skills are highly employable in a variety of industries as well as the government sector.

Accounting Certificate Requirements

Please note: The printed course catalog contains the official listing of program requirements and takes precedence over information listed on this site. Should you discover a discrepancy between the printed catalog and any information posted on this site, please contact the department for instructions.

Accounting courses (27 credits)

• ECON 121 - Principles of Accounting I
• ECON 122 - Principles of Accounting II
• ECON 301 - Intermediate Accounting I
• ECON 302 - Intermediate Accounting II
• ECAC 321 - Auditing Theory and Practice
• ECAC 329 - Cost Accounting
• ECAC 330 - Taxation
• ECAC 401 - Advanced Accounting


and one elective of the following:


• ECAC 317 - Accounting Information Systems
  ECAC 351 - Advanced Cost Accounting
  ECAC 420 - Information Systems Auditing
  

Business Related Subjects (22 credits):

• ECON 101 - Principles of Microeconomics
• ECON 102 - Principles of Macroeconomics
• ECON 374 - Fundamentals of Financial Management



• STAT 351 - Applied Statistics for Business and Economics OR
  STAT 355 - Intro to Probability and Statistics for Scien/Engineers


• ECAD 210 - The Practice of Management OR
  ECAD 489 - Seminar in Management and Administration
• ECAD 360 - Business Law


and one elective of the following:

• ECON 320 - Elements of Quantitative Methods
  ECON 408 - Managerial Economics >
  ECON 471 - Money and Capital Markets
  ECON 482 - International Finance
  ECAD 425 - Marketing
  ECAD 489 - Seminar and Management and Administration (not used above)
  IS 325 - Management Science
  TRANS - Business Communications (if transferred in)


and one of the following required Ethics Course (3 credits):

• ECAD 385 - Business Ethics
  PHIL 399B - Business Ethics
  PHIL 350 - Ethical Theory

NOTE: This curriculum is designed to meet the entry requirements into University of Baltimore (UB) Merrick School of Business and for Completion of a Master of Science in Taxation or a Master of Science in Accounting in 30 additional hours. Any substitutions for the above courses may require that additional courses be taken at UB.