Data Analytics Specialization
There's no doubt that data rules the business world. Accountanting professionals with expertise in data analyics are in-demand. This specialization provides students with the accounting expertise they need and the analytics that that want to differenate themselves in the market.
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Foundation Courses (0-12 Credits)
Up to 12 Foundation Credits may be waived. Please speak with your adviser. Course No. Title Credits ACCT 505 Accounting Essentials
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or ACCT 2011.5 ACCT 510 Intermediate Accounting I
Prerequisite: ACCT 505 or ACCT 3013 ACCT 511 Intermediate Accounting II
Prerequisite: ACCT 510 or ACCT 3023 ACCT 512 Auditing
Prerequisite: ACCT 505 or ACCT 4013 FIN 505 Essentials of Finance
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing or FIN 3311.5 -
Required Core Courses (9 Credits)
All students in the program will take 9 credits of required courses. Course No. Title Credits ACCT 740 Advanced Topics in Assurance Services1
Prerequisites: ACCT 512 or ACCT 4023 ACCT 752
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INSS 605Topics in Accounting Systems1
Prerequisites: ACCT 505 or ACCT 402
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IT for Business Transformation3
3FIN 605 Financial Management
Prerequisite: FIN 505.1.5 FIN 625 Corporate Finance
Prerequisites: FIN 5051.5 1 If this course was taken as part of a prior undergraduate degree, it must be substituted with an INSS 605. -
Accounting Courses (9 credits)
Tailor your interests with these additional Accounting courses. Choose 9 credits. Course No. Title Credits ACCT 513 Intermediate Accounting III2,3
Prerequisites: ACCT 511 or ACCT 3103 ACCT 514 Fundamentals of Income Taxation2,3
Prerequisites: ACCT 505 or ACCT 4053 ACCT 601 Forensic Accounting Principles3
Prerequisites: ACCT 505 or ACCT 4123 ACCT 604 Litigation Support
Prerequisite: ACCT 5053 ACCT 605 Performance Management
and Accounting Controls
Prerequisites: ACCT 505 or ACCT 4043 ACCT 624 Finance and Accounting Analytics
Prerequisite: ACCT 5123 ACCT 635 Financial Statement Analysis3
Prerequisite: ACCT 5053 ACCT 650 Law, Regulation, Professional Responsibility3
Prerequisites: ACCT 505 or ACCT 4203 ACCT 655 Tax Policy
Offered by the UBalt School of Law for LLM/M.S. Taxation3 ACCT 680 Taxation of Entities3
Prerequisites: ACCT 514 or ACCT 4063 ACCT 701 Accounting Ethics 3
Prerequisites: ACCT 505 or ACCT 4133 ACCT 702 Federal and State Government Accounting3
Prerequisites: ACCT 504 or ACCT 414
3 ACCT 720 Strategic Profitability Analysis
Prerequisite: ACCT 605
3 ACCT 755 Advanced Financial Reporting Issues3
Prerequisites: ACCT 511 or ACCT 403
3 ACCT 770 Seminar in Current Topics in Accounting
Prerequisites: ACCT 511 or ACCT 411
3 ACCT 795 Graduate Accounting Internship
Prerequisites: Permission or ACCT 495
3 ACCT 797 Special Topics in Accounting
Prerequisite: ACCT 505
3 2 Required elective if no equivalent course at the undergraduate level.
3 Available as elective only to students who have not taken equivalent courses in their undergraduate program.
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Specialization in Data Analytics (9 Credits)
You may choose to use 9 of your 12 elective credits to obtain specialized skills in data analytics. The requirements for the specialization are as follows: Course No. Title Credits REQUIRED: 6 credits from the following: INSS 611 Data Science Toolkit I
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing1.5 INSS 612 Data Science Toolkit II
Prerequisite: INSS 611/612 or INSS 3101.5 INSS 651 Database Management Systems
Prerequisite: Graduate standing INSS 310 if both or 611/612 are satisfied.3 SPECIALIZATION ELECTIVE: One course from the following: ACCT 624
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FIN 624Finance and Accounting Analytics
Prerequisite: ACCT 512
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Finance and Accounting Analytics
Prerequisite: FIN 6053
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INSS 722 Visual Business Intelligence
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Accounting Elective (3 Credits)
Students should work with the program director to determine what coursework works best for them to satisfy thir 12 credits of electives from 600 and 700-level ACCT, INSS or FIN courses, as well as PUAD 622. Decisions shoul be based on the student's prior undergraduate business and accounting coursework and thier professional experience and career goals. Electives from other areas can be take bt the approval of the program director. Students may not take both versions of the following cross-listed courses: ACCT624/FIN624; and ACCT 635/FIN 700.