Accounting, Graduate Certificate

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Minimum Total Hours: 12

Program Code: G004

Certificate Requirements

The Accounting Graduate Certificate will provide students with fundamental knowledge in accounting, preparing them to understand financial reporting, control systems, and tax implications of business transactions to be enabled to make better business decisions. 

Program Core
ACCT 5202Financial Accounting2
or ACCT 5232 Financial Reporting Foundations
Electives
Choose 10 credit hours from the following:10
Managerial Accounting
Fundamentals of Cost Accounting
Financial Reporting for Assets and Investments
Financial Reporting for Liabilities and Equity
Fundamentals of Income Taxation & Tax Accounting
Fundamentals of Taxation of Business & Employment Income
Fundamentals of Accounting Information Systems
Fundamentals of Internal Control
Fundamentals of Auditing
Financial Statement Analysis Theory and Methods
Other courses as approved by Steed School of Accounting
Total Credit Hours12

A graduate certificate is not a graduate degree. A graduate degree represents a program of independent inquiry beyond the depth of coursework alone, while a graduate certificate represents a set of courses only.

  • All courses must be taken at OU. No transfer credit will apply.
  • No course substitutions are permitted for graduate certificates.
  • Coursework applied to a graduate certificate cannot be more than five years old as of the semester the graduate certificate is awarded.
  • Students must earn a grade point average of 3.00 or higher on all coursework applied to the graduate certificate.