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USC Catalogue 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Courses of Instruction

The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
 

Accounting

Major Restrictions

Enrollment in most 500-level business courses by non-business graduate students requires special permission. For information about the registration application process for non-business students, visit the Schedule of Classes.
  

  • ACCT 463 Internal Audit

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examination of internal audit/auditors and their relationship to management, the investors, the regulators, and the external auditors.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 370 , ACCT 373 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 470 Advanced External Financial Reporting Issues

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Develop capabilities to identify and resolve advanced external financial reporting challenges, focusing primarily on operating, financing, and investing activities of business enterprises. Duplicates credit in ACCT 470ab.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 370 
    Corequisite: ACCT 377 
    Duplicates Credit in former ACCT 470ab
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 471 Accounting Information Systems

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Issues related to the design, control, and implementation of accounting information systems.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 371 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 472 Managerial Accounting

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Understanding of systems providing cost information useful in management decision-making and problem solving.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 372 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 473 Financial Statement Auditing

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Course builds on the background developed in ACCT 373 , specifically the process used by external auditors to conduct financial statement audits.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 373 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 474 Tax Issues for Business

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Capabilities to identify and articulate tax issues related to a business entity’s life: formation, investing, financing and operations, and change of form.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 374 .
    Duplicates Credit in former ACCT 451.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 475 Systems Security and Audit

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Issues related to the security, control, and auditing of accounting information systems.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 371 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 476 Performance Measurement Issues

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduction to understanding how management control systems can enhance achievement of the organization’s objectives and strategies.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 410x  or BUAD 281  or BUAD 285b  or BUAD 286b  or BUAD 305 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 477 Intermediate Fair Value Issues in Accounting

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Develops the ability to identify and understand new areas of emerging guidance involving fair value issues and to recognize and demonstrate appropriate application of methodologies.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 377 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 478 Accounting Systems Design

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Explores the design of accounting systems. Introduction to tools and techniques for analyzing and designing accounting systems with an emphasis on system controls and reporting.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 371 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 479 Accounting Systems Development

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examines the fundamentals of accounting systems development. Introduction to the concepts of implementation and support, with emphasis on system quality assurance, evaluation and attestation.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 478 .
    Duplicates Credit in former ACCT 454.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 490x Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual research and readings.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 493 Leventhal Honors Research Seminar

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Provides the methodological tools to identify research problems, develop researchable hypotheses, apply appropriate methodologies, conduct research, derive meaningful conclusions from data, write a research proposal.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Accounting and Business Majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 494 Marshall Honors Research and Thesis

    Units: 2
    Max Units: 04
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Experience in conducting research and writing a thesis under supervision of a faculty adviser.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 493  or BUAD 493 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Leventhal and Marshall Honors students
    Duplicates Credit in BUAD 494 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ACCT 495 Accounting Internship: Work, Ethics and Communication

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Provides insights and tools for the work environment specifically integrating technical, communication and ethical decision-making; bridging classroom learning and “real world” experience.
    Recommended Preparation: ACCT 370 , BUAD 302T .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to accounting majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ACCT 499 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4
    Max Units: 08
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Selected topics reflecting current trends and recent developments in the field of accounting. Topics vary each semester.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 509 Concepts of Financial and Management Accounting

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Introduction to the concepts of financial and managerial accounting. The course will provide coverage of key concepts needed by managers of businesses in order to communicate information important in decision-making.
    Registration Restriction: Not open to business or accounting majors
    Duplicates Credit in GSBA 510  and GSBA 518.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 525x Intensive Accounting Principles and Practices

    Units: 15
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Technical accounting theory and principles necessary for graduate work. Satisfies the prerequisite requirements for intermediate and advanced accounting, auditing, and tax.
    Recommended Preparation: introductory accounting courses.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 526 Global Accounting Experience

    Units: 1.5
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Cross-border transactions in the global economy examining accounting, legal, and tax environments, economic and political systems, and cultural differences. Includes international travel to selected region.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 527 Financial Statement Analysis - Audit Perspective

    Units: 1.5
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Analysis of corporate financial reports to evaluate the firm’s past and present performance as well as to predict likely future performance from an auditor’s perspective.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 541L 
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to Master of Accounting students
    Duplicates Credit in ACCT 581 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 528 Fair Value Accounting: GAAP, IFRS and Emerging Issues

    Units: 1.5
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Case study approach to explore fair value issues in accounting; research and analysis of causes of valuation differences.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to graduate business and accounting majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 530L Ethics for Professional Accountants

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Provides the ethical grounding that accountants need to identify ethical issues and reconcile conflicts among competing stakeholder interests.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to business taxation and accounting students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 532 Financial Accounting for Mergers and Acquisitions

    Units: 1.5
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Practical problems in accounting for business combinations. Consolidated financial statements: fair value, acquisition and equity basis accounting.
    Prerequisite: GSBA 510  
    Duplicates Credit in former ACCT 582 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 533 Mergers and Acquisitions: Tax Planning and Strategy

    Units: 1.5
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Tax planning and strategy in corporate restructuring including mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Tax background not required to be successful in this course.
    Prerequisite: GSBA 510 
    Duplicates Credit in former ACCT 582 
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 535 Management and Cost Accounting

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Presentation of accounting data for management use in decision making; cost accounting, profit planning, decision analysis, systems for revenue and costs control, responsibility accounting. 
    Prerequisite: ACCT 585  or GSBA 510 .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to business and accounting students.
    Duplicates Credit in GSBA 518  and GSBA 536   .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 536 Advanced Cost Analysis and Management Accounting

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Analysis and design of systems that provide cost information useful in making strategic and operating decisions. Advantages and limitations of activity-based costing methods.
    Prerequisite: GSBA 518  or ACCT 535 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 537 Performance Measurement, Evaluation, and Incentives

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Financial responsibility centers, financial and nonfinancial performance measures, budgets and other targets, evaluation techniques and styles, incentives. Strategy implementation and execution. Corporate governance.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration limited to graduate accounting and business students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 540 Technological Innovations in Accounting and Auditing

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    New, emerging and potential technologies for accounting and audit, emphasizing data and analytics. Actual and potential effects of new technologies in accounting and auditing settings.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to Master of Accounting (Data and Analytics) students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 541L Auditing in the Enhanced Data Age

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Framework of the audit model including use of large data sets with automated audit tools. A lab environment is an integral part of the course.
    Corequisite: ACCT 548 
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to Master of Accounting (Data and Analytics) students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 542 Fraud Analytics in the Audit

    Units: 1.5
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Understanding/identifying fraud risk from an auditor’s perspective; development of an analytics skillset to detect financial fraud risk.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 541L 
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to Master of Accounting students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 546 Auditing and Assurance Services

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Concepts and principles governing independent professional services that provide assurance on the reliability and relevance of information, including financial statement information. Topics include demand and supply issues for these services, basic principles of evidence, risk assessment and testing.
    Recommended Preparation: ACCT 525x .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 547 Enterprise Information Systems

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Focuses on accounting enterprise database models and information technology required to support those systems. Includes analysis and design of interfunctional process flows through reengineering to exploit technology capabilities.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 548L IT Audit and Data Applications

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Exploration of the role systems play in organizations, the technology that supports these systems and issues relating to technology risk, system/application security and system review/audit.
    Corequisite: ACCT 541L 
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to graduate accounting majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 549 Advanced Enterprise Systems and Technologies

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Design, control and development of advanced enterprise systems, using reengineering, focusing on accounting and financial systems, using a wide range of emerging existing technologies.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to graduate accounting majors
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 550T Tax Research and Professional Responsibilities

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Tax law research methods; interpreting statutes, cases and rulings; communicating research results; administration and professional responsibilities of tax practice.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration limited to graduate business taxation students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 551T Taxation of Partnerships and S-Corps

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Federal taxation of flow-through entities, including: partnerships, S corporations, limited liability partnerships (LLPs) and limited liability companies (LLCs).
    Recommended Preparation: ACCT 550T  or ACCT 560T  or LAW 600 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 553T Tax Policy and Strategic Tax Planning

    Units: 3
    Introduction to business taxes and their impact on management decisions. For prospective managers and business consultants, topics include discounted cash flow, financial accounting, and overall business impacts of taxes on decision making.
    Recommended Preparation: GSBA 518 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 557 Advanced Financial Statement Auditing Topics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Advanced coverage of topics in financial statement auditing including market effects of auditing, auditor litigation and client acceptance, errors and fraud, analytical procedures, and going-concern assessment.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 525x .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 558 Advanced Accounting Valuation

    Units: 1.5
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Explores complex valuation issues arising in financial reporting and the related professional standards and guidance.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 528 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 559 Strategy and Operations Through CFO Lens

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examination of strategic objectives and operations within specific industries and companies. Chief Financial Officers present how they view the business as a whole and measure performance effectively.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration limited to graduate business and accounting students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 560T Tax Theory and Ethics

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Taxation and its relationship to business and investment decisions; the effects of taxation on business organization, capital structure, policies, operation, and expansion.
    Recommended Preparation: An introductory tax course
    Registration Restriction: Online registration limited to graduate business and accounting students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 561T Income Tax of Corporations and Their Shareholders

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Concepts and principles governing the taxation of corporations and their shareholders; the effect of taxes on corporate formation, capital structure, distributions, and liquidations.
    Recommended Preparation: ACCT 550T  or ACCT 560T  or LAW 600 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 562 Methods and Motivations of Financial Reporting Fraud

    Units: 1.5
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Discover and analyze signals of major and frequently committed methods of fraudulent financial reporting; explore current reforms in financial reporting, auditing, and corporate governance.
    Recommended Preparation: ACCT 572  or other intermediate accounting course
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open to only graduate business and accounting students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 563T Federal Estate and Gift Taxes

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Taxation of decedents’ estates and lifetime gifts; valuation of property subject to estate and gift taxes.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 550T 
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to graduate accounting students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 567T Taxation of Transactions in Property

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSm
    Taxation of gains and losses from sales, exchanges and other transactions involving property, especially real estate; tax planning.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 550T .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate accounting majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 568T International Taxation

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Taxation of cross-border transactions of U.S. citizens and corporations and of U.S. source income of foreign persons and corporations; planning for organization of international operations under the tax laws.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 561T  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 569T Advanced Partnership Taxation

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Advanced tax concepts involving partnerships and limited liability companies, designed to produce a level of expertise in Subchapter K of the Internal Revenue Code.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 551T .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 570T State and Local Tax Concepts

    Units: 3
    State income taxes; property tax; other state and local taxes; the effect of state and local taxes on multistate operations.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 550T 
    Recommended Preparation: ACCT 561T  or minimum one year of work in corporate taxation
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to graduate students in Business Taxation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 571T Taxation of Individuals

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: SpSm
    Application of tax law in areas of compensation planning, investment planning, tax shelters, and current developments relating to the individual taxpayer.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 550T .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 572 Corporate Accounting and Reporting

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A study of financial reporting and disclosure issues with an emphasis on the use of corporate financial statements and their accompanying footnotes.
    Prerequisite: GSBA 510 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 573T Federal Tax Procedure

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: SpSm
    Tax reporting and collection procedures; administrative and judicial procedures governing tax controversies; the rights and obligations of the taxpayer.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 550T ; ACCT 560T  or LAW 600 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 574 Accounting and Corporate Governance in Global Business

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    How corporate governance and financial reporting systems are influenced by business environments internationally. Global perspective of governance and reporting challenges and mechanisms for their remedy.
    Recommended Preparation: GSBA 510  or other Financial Accounting course
    Registration Restriction: Online registration open only to graduate accounting and business students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 575T Taxation of Financial Markets

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sm
    Taxation of financial market products with focus on derivative products. Basics of tax forwards, futures, options, swaps, collars and floor. Time value of money considerations.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 561T .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 576T Tax Consolidations

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Concepts and principles of taxation of companies operating as consolidated groups.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 550T  and ACCT 561T .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 577T Compensation

    Units: 3
    Concepts of taxation of employers and employees from various forms of compensation, including pension plans, profit sharing plans, stock ownership plans, and deferred compensation arrangements.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 550T  and ACCT 560T .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 578T Advanced Corporate Taxation

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Analysis of corporate divisions and reorganizations, carryovers, and other advanced topics in corporate taxation.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 561T .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 579T Advanced International Taxation

    Units: 3
    Analysis of tax treaties, foreign currency transactions, international licensing, reorganization of foreign corporations, and other current topics as the law changes.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 568T .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 580T Tax Accounting Methods

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Concepts governing timing of recognition of income and deductions for income tax purposes. Covers differences between GAAP and income tax accounting for all taxpayers.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 550T .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 581 Financial Statement Analysis

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Analysis of corporate financial reports from a decision-maker’s perspective. This course is case-and-applications-oriented. Applications include credit analysis, equity valuation, and financial distress.
    Prerequisite: GSBA 510  
    Registration Restriction: Online registration limited to graduate accounting and business students
    Duplicates Credit in ACCT 527  
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 583 Income Tax Accounting and Auditing

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Examination of FAS 109 and roles of auditors, tax professionals and corporate financial personnel in preparing, analyzing and reviewing accrual of income taxes.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 561T  or ACCT 585 .
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate majors.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 584 Family Wealth Preservation

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Analysis of transfer of property during lifetime or at death from a tax saving perspective.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration limited to graduate business and accounting students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 585 Professional Responsibilities in Accounting

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: SpSm
    A case study approach to the integration of accounting and auditing knowledge; research, communication, and interpersonal skills developed through extensive written and presentation requirements.
    Recommended Preparation: ACCT 572 
    Registration Restriction: Online registration limited to graduate accounting students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 587 Forensic Accounting

    Units: 1.5, 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Role of the accountant in litigation matters. Identification and exploration of the analytical and communication tools necessary to be an effective forensic accountant.
    Prerequisite: ACCT 572 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 588 Analysis and Implications of SEC Registration and Reporting

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Legal, institutional, and economic implications of being a U.S. public company. The Securities and Exchange Commission and its influence on investors, management, underwriters, and accountants.
    Recommended Preparation: ACCT 572 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the School of Accounting. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the school.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ACCT 592 Field Research in Accounting

    Units: 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Individual or team projects studying the business practices of an industry, company, government agency, country, geographic region, etc. Proposal, data collection, analyses, and written report.
    Recommended Preparation: Completion of MAcc or MBT course work.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master and doctoral students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture, Guided Independent Study
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ACCT 593 Independent Research in Accounting

    Units: 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3.0, 3.5, 4
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Independent research beyond normal course offerings. Proposal, research and written report/paper required.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ACCT 595 Internship in Accounting

    Units: .5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3
    Max Units: 09
    Supervised on-the-job business experience in the field of Accounting. (Curricular Practical Training). Application required.
    Recommended Preparation: Completion of required MAcc or MBT course work
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate accounting students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ACCT 596 Research Practicum in Accounting

    Units: 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2
    Max Units: 8.0
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Hands-on practical experience working with a Leventhal faculty member on an ongoing research project.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to master and doctoral students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ACCT 597 Consulting Project in Accounting

    Units: 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5
    Max Units: 12.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Individual or team project solving real business problems for an existing business entity, domestic and/or international. Proposal, field research, analyses and oral and written presentations.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ACCT 599 Special Topics

    Units: 1, 1.5, 2, 3
    Max Units: 09
    Terms Offered: Irregular
    New developments in contemporary accounting. Specific topics vary each semester.
    Registration Restriction: Online registration limited to graduate business and accounting students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 602 Survey of Judgment and Decision-Making Research in Accounting

    Units: 3
    Survey of major topics in judgment and decision-making research in accounting with coverage of both key research questions and frequently used methods.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 604 Survey of Management Accounting Research

    Units: 3
    Survey of major topics in accounting research with coverage of both key research questions and frequently used methods.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 605 Survey of Financial Reporting Research

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Survey of major topics and methods in research on financial reporting with coverage of both key research questions and frequently used methods.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Business Administration doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 606 Survey of Tax Research

    Units: 3
    Survey of major topics and methods in research on taxation with coverage of both key research questions and frequently used methods.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 608 Positive Accounting Research

    Units: 3
    Survey of major topics related to positive accounting research with coverage of both key research questions and frequently used methods.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 610 Survey of Accounting Research

    Units: 3
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Advanced seminar that surveys both seminal and cutting edge research in financial accounting, managerial accounting, accounting information systems, and tax accounting.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 611 Selected Topics in Accounting Research

    Units: 1.5
    Max Units: 6.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Advanced seminar to address issues/topics covered in accounting research.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 621 Research Forum

    Units: 1
    Max Units: 4.0
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Seminar. Review and discuss current research in Accounting. Presentations by faculty, visiting researchers, and advanced students.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to Marshall Ph.D. students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ACCT 630 Auditing and Archival Research

    Units: 1.5
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Survey of major topics and methods in archival auditing research, research design methodologies, use of STATA and statistical modeling.
    Recommended Preparation: Graduate level econometrics course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to PhD students in Accounting.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 661a Accounting Research Methodology

    Units: 2
    Advanced doctoral seminar concerned with review and critique of accounting research forum papers and with the preparation, presentation, and defense of research proposals and papers.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 661b Accounting Research Methodology

    Units: 2
    Advanced doctoral seminar concerned with review and critique of accounting research forum papers and with the preparation, presentation, and defense of research proposals and papers.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACCT 699 Special Topics

    Units: 1, 1.5, 2, 3
    Max Units: 08
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Exploration of emerging topics, literature and research techniques in contemporary accounting.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter


Academic Medicine
  

  • ACMD 501 Introduction to Academic Medicine Worldwide

    Units: 3
    Introduces the master’s program; includes historical development of training in the health professions; current issues, challenges and opportunities in academic medicine and health worldwide.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACMD 502 Becoming a Leader in Academic Medicine Worldwide

    Units: 3
    Current approaches to leadership within the context of global academic medicine and health professions education; individual applications, group dynamics, teamwork, and interpersonal skill enhancement.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACMD 503 Leading Change in Academic Medical Centers

    Units: 3
    Exploration and practice of skills for promoting programs within academic medicine and health professions’ education; building trust, organizational change, conflict resolution, negotiation, and managing resources.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACMD 511 Competencies in Academic Medicine and Health I

    Units: 3
    Acquisition of cognitive knowledge and problem-solving skills in health professions worldwide; instructional methods, assessment techniques, designing curricula for health professions education.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACMD 512 Competencies in Academic Medicine and Health II

    Units: 3
    Learning theory, teaching methods, assessment techniques related to acquisition and reinforcement of competencies related to patient care, practice based learning and improvement and systems-based practice.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACMD 513 Professionalism in Academic Medicine and Health

    Units: 3
    Acquisition and evaluation of interpersonal and communication skills and professionalism including ethics and cultural competence; within the context of health care disparities and health initiatives.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACMD 514 Accreditation and Program Evaluation in Academic Medicine

    Units: 3
    Evaluating health professions training programs within guidelines of relevant accreditation organizations; models of evaluation, designing plans and tools for evaluation of program elements.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACMD 591 Designing Research on Innovations in Academic Medicine

    Units: 2
    Introduction to design and scholarly review of innovations in health professions education; needs assessment, problem selection, use of research methods to study an innovation.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACMD 592 Implementing Research on Innovation in Academic Medicine

    Units: 2
    Mentored research on an innovation in academic medicine leading to the master’s degree. The project will result in a formal written research report.
    Prerequisite: ACMD 591 .
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACMD 593 Foundations of Academic Writing

    Units: 1
    Academic writing for conference papers, grant proposals and journal articles.
    Recommended Preparation: A completed study of an innovation in academic medicine or other health-related field that is ready to move to publication.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACMD 598 Fieldwork: Designing Innovations for the Health Professions

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Max Units: 3.0
    Individual projects designing curricular or other innovations for the home program as an application of Year 1 concepts and as part of the capstone experience.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ACMD 604 Supporting the Educational Enterprise in Academic Medicine

    Units: 3
    Explores support functions in academic medical centers and health professions schools; financial, scientific, educational, faculty and student affairs departments, and offices of medical education.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACMD 605 Faculty Development for Health Sciences Faculty Educators

    Units: 2
    Role of faculty development programs in health professions schools; tools for delivering effective continuing education and faculty development; models for mentoring clinical faculty.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACMD 615 Maintenance of Competence in the Health Professions

    Units: 2
    Maintenance of competence and continuing professional development (CPD) of physicians and other health care professionals; trends, needs, strategies, assessing outcomes, examining effectiveness of CPD programs.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  

  • ACMD 621 Capstone Portfolio for the Master of Academic Medicine

    Units: 1
    Role of portfolios for teachers and learners; develop a personal capstone portfolio that represents each learner’s accomplishment of the core competencies of the MACM program.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit


Advanced Dental Education Conjoint Program
  

  • ADNT 701 Research Methodologies in Dentistry

    Units: 2
    Critical evaluation of the scientific principles in the development, execution, and interpretation of methodologies used in dentistry.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  

  • ADNT 702 Physical Diagnosis

    Units: 2
    Didactic and clinical experience in physical diagnosis relevant to practice of the dental specialties.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

 

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