Graduate Catalog 2024-2025 
    
    Nov 03, 2024  
Graduate Catalog 2024-2025

Combined Master of Professional Accounting, MPAcc and Master of Business Administration, M.B.A.


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The University of West Georgia now offers a path for students to earn their MPAcc and MBA degrees concurrently. This option develops the proficiencies students need to succeed in today’s competitive job market. Graduates qualify to take the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) examination. The Richards College of Business at the University of West Georgia is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB). The undergraduate accounting and MPAcc programs also carry the distinction of AACSB supplemental accounting accreditation. The Combined MPAcc/MBA is a method by which a student can earn separate degrees in both the MPAcc and MBA programs.

Learning Outcomes

MPAcc Learning Outcomes

  • Communicate at a professional level in oral presentations and in writing.
  • Identify how globalization affects organizations and their environment.
  • Recognize the importance of ethical decision-making.
  • Understand the various forms of accounting and be able to apply these principles and practices in a professionally responsible manner to accounting and business processes and systems.


MBA Learning Outcomes

  • Communicate at a professional level in oral presentations and in writing.
  • Work effectively with others and lead in organizational situations.
  • Identify how globalization affects organizations and their environment.
  • Recognize the importance of ethical decision-making.
  • Integrate analytical and problem-solving skills with concepts and theories from all functional areas of business.

Admission Requirements
Applicants to the combined MPAcc-MBA must be admitted into both the MPAcc and MBA programs. Applicants should review the “Admissions” tab on the following web pages for specific requirements and tasks that must be completed prior to admission:

MPAcc program   https://www.westga.edu/academics/business/program_page.php?program_id=77

MBA program      https://www.westga.edu/academics/business/program_page.php?program_id=59


Course Requirements
The combined MPAcc/MBA requires the successful completion of 45 graduate course hours. 

 

Foundation Courses (Common body of knowledge)


  • ACCT 2101   Principles of Accounting I
  • ACCT 2102   Principles of Accounting II

All incoming students - with or without an undergraduate accounting degree - will receive access to MBA Math to build or refresh their foundational knowledge in business disciplines outside of accounting. In addition, all students are required to complete the Basic Accounting Courses. A student admitted to the MPAcc program may take any required or selective ACCT-designated graduate course so long as the applicable course prerequisites have been satisfied prior to taking it.

Basic Accounting Courses


  • ACCT 3212  Financial Reporting I
  • ACCT 3213  Financial Reporting II
  • ACCT 3232  Managerial Accounting
  • ACCT 3251  Income Tax Accounting for Individuals
  • ACCT 4241  Accounting Information Systems
  • ACCT 4261 - Auditing

MPAcc/MBA Electives


(Select three)

Students must take 3 separate 3 hour courses.

Additional Requirements


A minimum cumulative GPA of a 3.0 is required for all combined MPAcc-MBA students. Only courses in which a student previously earned a grade lower than a “B” may be repeated. Students may repeat no more than two graduate courses. Only one repeat per course is allowed. The new grade will not replace the previously earned grade; instead, the grade received in the second attempt will be averaged into the student’s overall GPA calculation.  If a student’s cumulative GPA drops below a 3.0, the University’s policies on academic probation, suspension, and dismissal apply (see Academic Standards in the General Academic Policies section of the catalog).

All requirements must be completed within six (6) years from the date of matriculation as a graduate student.

Any combined MPAcc-MBA student earning two or more grades “F” or “WF” –in any combination–during the course of his or her program of study will be subject to dismissal from the program.

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