Accounting Foundations

The Accounting Foundations graduate-level microcredential helps students grown in their technical knowledge of financial and managerial accounting while also shaping professional skills like critical thinking, communication, leadership, and decision-making. Led by top-ranked faculty in the field, students study the principles, concepts, and methods that govern professional accounting. Experiential learning opportunities provide the chance to apply what students have learned to real-world problems. Students will also develop the technical knowledge and professional competencies needed to excel in accounting.

This program helps prepare students to launch or advance in your professional accounting career. The courses in this certificate program can be applied toward the education requirements for the Uniform CPA Exam.

Learners who earn this microcredential will:

• Understand what accounting information is and how different capital market participants use it.

• Record financial information in accounting language and produce the primary financial statements.

• Appreciate fundamental accounting concepts and revenue recognition criteria in preparing financial statements.

• Conduct the accounting for fixed assets and short-term assets with a particular focus on accounts receivables and inventories.

• Understand accounting for liabilities and evaluate the shareholders’ equity section of a balance sheet.

• Understand the preparation and information provided by cash flow statements.

• Examine tools and techniques of financial statement analysis from the perspective of investors and creditors.

• Understand theoretical and empirical properties of financial ratios.