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MBA/MAcc ACCOUNTING COURSE OFFERINGS 2006-2007

ACTG 540: Auditing Concepts (Fall 2006, Winter 2007, Spring 2007) This course covers the audit environment, examinations of financial statements, and the audit process. Also includes professional standards, audit sampling, and the audit profession.

ACTG 550: Advanced Financial Accounting (Fall 2006, Spring 2007) Accounting for equity; financial accounting and reporting for corporate consolidation.

ACTG 570: Introduction to Federal Taxation (Fall 2006, Winter 2007)) Course covers federal income tax law covering taxation of individuals, corporations, partnerships. Will introduce students to tax research and planning.

ACTG 610: Entrepreneurial Accounting (Fall 2006) This is a terrific course for all students who want to understand and manage cash flow. Students will leave this course with a real understanding of non-publicly traded companies' financial statements and a significant amount of accounting confidence. FOR MBA STUDENTS

ACTG 610: Financial Reporting (Winter 2007) This course provides an overview of financial statement construction, helps students understand GAAP, and provides an overview of how financial statement numbers can be used in decision making. This is a new course designed to be taken before the next course in Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation. FOR MBA STUDENTS

ACTG 617: Taxation of Business (Winter 2007) This course covers the taxation of business entities (C Corporations, Partnerships, S Corporations and LLCs) as they form, operate, and dissolve. FOR MAcc STUDENTS

ACTG 618: Taxes and Business Strategy (Spring 2007) This course focuses on how to use economic analysis as a tax planning tool and thereby incorporate tax factors in economic decisions. FOR MAcc STUDENTS

ACTG 630: Accounting Measurement and Disclosure (Fall 2006) This course looks at recent FASB decisions and current measurement and disclosure conflicts facing the accounting profession. The class will also expose students to governmental and not for profit accounting issues. FOR MAcc STUDENTS

ACTG 631: Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation (Spring 2007)
The objective of this course is to examine the role of accounting information in financial decisions. The course covers the traditional financial statement analysis issues and how financial accounting information can be used to help generate the information needed for valuation. Students will develop an understanding of how financial markets and financial statement information relates to valuation. This course highlights valuation's relationship to accounting earnings and book value. ACTG 610 Financial Reporting is a prerequisite for this course.

ACTG 635: Accounting for Multinational Corporations (not offered in 2006-2007)
This course expands students' knowledge of domestic company reporting issues by examining some financial and managerial reporting issues faced by multinational corporations and their managers. We will look at how culture and other environmental variables influence the development of financial accounting.

ACTG 642: Advanced Assurance Services (Fall 2006)
This course describes a broad range of assurance services provided to clients. Focused on advanced auditing and approaching auditing from a case method, the course will also cover new trends in private and public sector toward assurance services. FOR MAcc STUDENTS

ACTG 662: Strategic Cost Management (Winter 2007)
Theory and application of management accounting techniques to decision made under uncertainty in complex business environments.

ACTG 665: Decision Support Systems (Winter 2007)
Course covers the use of technology to create effective decision support systems. Understanding how systems can be created to supply information to managers. FOR MAcc STUDENTS

 


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