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Course Overview

Geneseo's small classes, accessible faculty, and carefully designed curriculum all reflect the high quality of our highly regarded accounting program.  Fall courses are held on campus so students and faculty can get acquainted and build rapport.  For spring semester courses, students have the option to attend classes on campus or virtually.

The five accounting courses will cover topics in financial, managerial, and tax accounting, advanced audit, and a capstone in financial accounting theory and research.

Courses with a management or economics prefix will cover information systems, quantitative methods, managerial economics, advanced financial management, and electives.

Advantages of an MS in Accounting

Earning an MS in Accounting provides the following benefits:

  • Enhanced preparation: Fifth-year graduates will arrive in the workplace with a superior level of skills and knowledge. This frequently translates to more rapid advancement and enhanced career prospects.
  • Career planning flexibility: Professional mobility requires a CPA license or the ability to become licensed. Many states which already have 150-hr. requirements will not provide reciprocity for out-of-state candidates who possess only 120 hours. Lack of 150 hours can adversely affect promotions contingent on a transfer, plans to move out of state, or advancement prospects in a market that includes some 150-hr. jurisdictions (e.g. metro NYC).
  • Shortened experience requirement: Masters graduates need only one year of work in order to meet the experience requirement for CPA licensure.
  • Performance on the CPA exam: There is a growing body of evidence that shows significantly enhanced pass rates for fifth-year students.

Entry Requirement 

Geneseo's MS in Accounting has been designed to satisfy the New York State Dept. of Education requirements for CPA licensure, Option #2, which includes but are not limited to at least 33 semester hours in accounting with courses in financial accounting theory and principles, managerial accounting, U.S. federal tax accounting, auditing, and computer auditing; and 36 semester hours in general business electives including business statistics, commercial law, computer science, economics, and finance. The combination of a Geneseo undergraduate accounting degree and MS will fulfill NYS requirements. Please note that the Geneseo MS contains fifteen semester hours of accounting; therefore prospective applicants from other schools should have completed a minimum of eighteen semester hours of accounting coursework in order to be eligible for CPA licensure in New York State.

Fees

Graduate Tuition and fees at SUNY Geneseo are $12295 for New York State residents (2020-2021).

For non-residents tuition and fees are $24085.  


This information was accurate on : 15/03/2021
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