Accounting Capstone Course –

acc594

(3 credits)

This course is an exercise in practical, professional management decision-making and analysis and is intended to re-emphasize to the student the challenges faced by managers who must balance the needs of customers, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders with ethical and legal considerations. The course requires the student to synthesize and integrate the theory and practice learned from all of the courses in the accounting curriculum and apply them toward the development of recommended solutions for specific managerial situations found within organizations in the business environment.

This graduate-level course is weeks. To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.

Topics and Objectives

Financial Evaluation and Risk Management
- Evaluate the performance of the organization using ratio and trend analysis.
- Evaluate the need for risk management.
Integration of Information Systems with Financial Applications
- Evaluate information systems tools.
- Analyze the strategies for integration of financial software applications.
- Utilize Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) as a financial business strategy.
- Apply the appropriate use of client-server technologies to business strategies.
- Analyze the various applications for information sharing.
Integration of all MBA/ACC Course Knowledge
- Apply financial, managerial, information systems, ethics, critical thinking, and strategic applications theories to business situations.
- Formulate appropriate uses for strategic planning, organizational behavior, management, and quantitative theories and concepts.
Performance Measurement and Analysis
- Distinguish between the methods of performance measurement.
- Analyze the importance of benchmarking to an organization.
Strategic Focus on Long-Range and Financial Planning
- Relate the Controller's role in the achievement of the organization's goals and objectives.
- Analyze the relevance of the mission statement.
- Formulate and align the financial goals with the organization's strategic plan.
- Differentiate between strategic and tactical goals.
- Analyze the relationship of the implementation of tactical goals in the annual operating budget.
Transaction Analysis and Presentation
- Analyze sales standards.
- Demonstrate the application of metrics to establish prime cost standards.
- Analyze cash management techniques.
- Evaluate capital budgeting techniques and constraints.
- Relate appropriate leverage strategies to organizational goals.

The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses.
While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.

Accounting Capstone Course –

acc594

Financial Evaluation and Risk Management

Integration of Information Systems with Financial Applications

Integration of all MBA/ACC Course Knowledge

Performance Measurement and Analysis

Strategic Focus on Long-Range and Financial Planning

Transaction Analysis and Presentation

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