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Program Requirements

MAcc Course Requirements

The MAcc program consists of 30 credit hours of course work. Fifteen-eighteen credits are in accounting courses and the remaining 15 credits are to be taken as graduate business electives.

Required Graduate Accounting Courses (15/18 semester hours)

  • MACC-650 Seminar in Taxation
  • MACC-652 Analysis of Accounting Data
  • MACC-654 Issues in Financial Reporting
  • MACC-656 International Dimensions of Accounting
  • One or two 600-level accounting elective from the following list:
    • MACC-658 Governmental and Not for Profit Accounting
    • MACC-662 Auditing Practice and Problems
    • MACC-664 Issues in Managerial Accounting
    • MACC-670 Accounting Internship (cleared through and directed by the department chairperson of accounting)

Electives (15 semester hours)

  • MACC-663 Fraud and Financial Accounting
  • MACC-667 Business ValuationsFudamentals, Techniques and Theory
  • MACC-660 Research in Financial Accounting

Any 600-level nonaccounting courses offered, for which prerequisites have been satisfied, may be taken. 

Preliminary Requirements

MAcc students who do not have an accounting undergraduate background will need to complete 12 credit hours of nonaccounting and 15 credit hours of accounting preliminary requirements.  The specific course breakdowns are as follows:

  • Nonaccounting (12 semester hours); for nonbusiness undergraduate degree or outdated course work
    MBAD-524 Fundamentals of Accounting
    MBAD-531 Economic Analysis
    MBAD-560 Marketing Management
    MBAD-570 Management Theory and Applications
  • Accounting (15 semester hours); for nonaccounting business undergraduate degree or outdated course work
    ACC-302 Cost Management 
    ACC-310 Accounting Theory and Concepts I
    ACC-311 Accounting Theory and Concepts II
    ACC-400 Auditing
    ACC-410 Fundamentals of Federal Taxation

Waiver of Courses

Individual preliminary courses for the MAcc program may be waived if an equivalent undergraduate course or sequence of courses was completed, with a grade of at least a "C" in each class, at an AACSB International accredited program from which a student graduated within the past five years.

If equivalent undergraduate core courses were completed at a non-AACSB International (regionally) accredited program, individual core courses may be waived based on completion of equivalent course work within six years prior to admission to the MAcc program at Rider with an undergraduate grade of "C" or higher.

With the approval of the Assistant Dean of the College of Business Administration, students may take proficiency examinations to waive preliminary courses if the above criteria are not met. Preliminary courses will not be waived merely because of one's work experience.

Transfer of Courses

Only a student who has been admitted to candidacy for the MAcc may request the transfer of a graduate course taken at an accredited institution. Such a request may be granted if the course was taken recently, was passed with a grade of "B" or higher and was taken before admission to the MAcc program at Rider. Once a student has been admitted to the program, graduate courses taken at other institutions must have prior approval of the Assistant Dean of the College of Business Administration before transfer credit will be allowed. A maximum of six (6) semester hours of transfer credit may be granted.