CPA Pathways

The CPA Pathways graduate-level microcredential will enhance students' technical knowledge and skills in financial accounting, taxation, and accounting data analytics. The program not only builds the expertise students need to excel as a Certified Public Accountant, it prepares them to sit for the CPA exam. Our accounting faculty review the contents of the CPA Exam regularly to ensure that the curriculum in this program is up-to-date with the latest requirements.

Students will grow business competencies like critical thinking, decision-making, and problem-solving. Gaining knowledge is only half the battle in the modern business world; application is equally important. That's why our program emphasizes real-world projects and work samples that demonstrate students' advanced skills.

Learners who earn this microcredential will have the ability to:

• Apply data analytics in a variety of accounting and business contexts

• Critically solve business problems using data-intensive business and accounting information

• Synthesize and effectively communicate data-intensive information, findings, and conclusions to other environment-constituents, including supervisors, peers and subordinates, clients, and regulatory agencies

• Learn a variety of tools to break apart financial reports into meaningful units for analysis

• Understand accounting for mergers and acquisitions: investment accounting, preparation of consolidated financial statements, business combination achieved in stages, divestitures and deconsolidations, and more