MSU launching on line master’s programs in accounting, taxation in 2021

A picture of the outside of the McCool Hall atrium on a sunny winter day.
Mississippi State’s Richard C. Adkerson College of Accountancy will get started providing two new on the web master’s applications in 2021. (Photo by Megan Bean)

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STARKVILLE, Miss out on.—Mississippi State College will start new on line master’s applications in accountancy and taxation in 2021.

The MSU School of Business’ Richard C. Adkerson School of Accountancy is established to begin providing on the internet Master of Expert Accountancy and Learn of Taxation plans in the slide, creating on the college’s nationally-recognized online offerings. The new on the web courses are built achievable by a new gift from the Richard C. Adkerson Relatives Basis.

Shawn Mauldin, Adkerson University of Accountancy director, stated the investments in new on line programs mirror the altering landscape of graduate education.

“With Richard Adkerson’s gift, we can supply the technologies that assures we are offering the exact same quality accounting education and learning as in the face-to-encounter environment,” Mauldin reported. “Although the two courses will go on to be provided face-to-confront, we feel there will be considerable desire from college students who are unable to occur to campus to finish the graduate packages for a variety of factors. The Adkerson College of Accountancy is at the forefront of re-envisioning how graduate accounting training is sent.”

Both equally 30-hour systems prepare students for professions in business enterprise and accounting. Enrollment will commence in spring 2021 with classes commencing at the begin of the fall semester in August.

In modern yrs, the Adkerson School of Accountancy updated its undergraduate and graduate packages to give college students further tools wanted to keep on being at the forefront of the accounting job. The curriculum update emphasizes technologies skills relevant to info analytics and huge knowledge, parts that are starting to be progressively popular in the accounting career. The alterations contain integrating data analytics articles into present-day programs, including a required information analytics graduate course, and providing a slight in accounting information analytics in the Master of Skilled Accountancy and Learn of Taxation packages, which is obtainable for pupils in both of those the on-line and facial area-to-facial area plans.

“As the fields of organization and accounting evolve, it is our position to equip college students with both the foundational concepts and the contemporary applications they want to be at the forefront of their job,” College of Business Dean Sharon Oswald stated. “Our current accounting curriculum and expanded on the net offerings are two fantastic examples of how we are accomplishing just that. I am fired up that we can expanded obtain to our environment-course academic choices via the on line Learn of Taxation and Grasp of Specialist Accountancy courses.”

The Richard C. Adkerson School of Accountancy, housed in MSU’s School of Small business, maintains supplemental accounting accreditation from the Association to Progress Collegiate Educational institutions of Business enterprise, the world’s major business education community and longest-serving accrediting system for business enterprise schools with undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees in small business and accounting. For a lot more, pay a visit to www.small business.msstate.edu/programs/adkerson/.

MSU is Mississippi’s leading university, available online at www.msstate.edu.