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Graduate Certificate in Accounting at Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University, United States

Programme overview

This graduate certificate program supplements the body of knowledge and educational credit requirements necessary for licensure as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in most states. With program approval, all four courses in the certificate may be applied to the online Master of Professional Accounting degree, subject to restrictions outlined in GCAC-309 Transfer Credit . Certificate program students who wish to have the certificate courses applied to the master's degree program must formally be admitted to the master's degree program.

Faculty: The Graduate School  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: University Park, PA, United States

What you will study

Courses include Auditing Theory and Practice.

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Entry requirements

Ordinarily, an entering student will have successfully completed a baccalaureate degree in accounting or comparable accounting coursework. If the undergraduate major was not accounting, an applicant should have completed the following minimum core of accounting course work (or equivalent): financial and managerial accounting principles intermediate financial accounting I and II cost accounting federal taxation auditing

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