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Accounting with Business Analytics Online Master's Degree Program

can be completed in as little as

6 terms*

*2 terms per semester; each term is 8 weeks

Tuition

$595/credit

$1,785 3-credit course

Active Duty Military

truED Preferred Tuition

Credit Hours Required

30

Apply By

Spring 1: Dec. 20

Classes Start

Spring 1: January 6, 2025

Explore Accounting with Business Analytics

Advance your career by combining the comprehensive accounting expertise of a Master’s in Accounting with the data-driven insights provided by a Business Analytics Certificate. This dual focus equips you with essential accounting and business skills that are highly sought after in today's dynamic job market. Our program emphasizes integrating cutting-edge technologies like AI, blockchain, and cloud computing into financial processes and audits, while the business analytics component enhances your ability to interpret complex data and make informed business decisions.

 

Invest in Your Future 

Distinguish yourself with an accredited online master’s degree in accounting that offers: 

  • Advanced Accounting Skills: Gain expertise in financial statement analysis, auditing, and forensic accounting, ensuring you are well-prepared to tackle the complexities of the modern financial landscape. 
  • Strategic Data Analysis: Develop your ability to organize and explore data, apply quantitative analysis techniques, and use data visualization and statistical analysis to drive business performance. 
  • Technological Proficiency: Master the integration of AI, blockchain, cloud computing, and other advanced technologies into financial processes and audits to enhance decision-making and risk management. 
  • Certifications Preparation: Prepare for advanced certifications like CPA, CMA, and CIA, while also building competencies in business analytics to further validate your expertise and expand your career prospects.

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Regionally accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education

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How Can an MS in Accounting with a Business Analytics Certificate Help Your Career?

Accounting and financial analysts careers are projected to grow 8% from 2022 to 2032, driven by the globalization of businesses and the increasing importance of data-driven decision-making. Professionals in this field can expect a median annual salary of $99,890.* With your master’s degree, you’ll be qualified for high-level positions such as financial analyst, forensic accountant, and financial controller. 

Graduates of this program are well-prepared to pursue professional certifications in accounting and develop specialized skills in business analytics, making them highly attractive to employers across various industries.

*Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 2024

Top Jobs for MS in Accounting Graduates with Business Analytics Expertise

  • Forensic Accountant
  • Financial Controller
  • Financial Risk Manager
  • Accounting Technology Specialist
  • Data Analyst
  • Business Intelligence Analyst
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Program Details

Champlain's online accounting courses encompass the top skills needed by today's business professionals.

Professional Courses (21 Credits)

Graduate Certificate (9 Credits)

Professional Courses

Advances your understanding of how to use financial information to value and analyze firms. Uses an understanding of a firm's strategy, what is contained in financial reports, why firms report certain information, and how to be a sophisticated user of this information. Evaluates current performance and its future sustainability, forecasts future profitability and risk, and values businesses using earnings and book value data. Develops a foundation to effectively communicate financial information.

Investigates and evaluates techniques for identifying and measuring business risk and for devising strategies incorporating risk analysis into strategic planning. Ties strategic objectives, risks, internal controls and critical success factors to business performance measurements to evaluate an entity's progress toward achieving strategic goals. Includes both quantitative and qualitative measurements and emphasizes effective communication of financial information.

Examines major international dimensions of financial and managerial accounting. Discusses national and cultural influences on accounting and on the accounting profession. Investigates financial regulation and IFRS accounting and financial reporting standards. Investigates corporate decisions related to methods of currency translation and accounting for gains and losses from exchange rate fluctuations. Explores managerial accounting issues raised by international organizations.

Prerequisites

Complete ACCT-510

Students will explore how technologies like cloud computing, blockchain, and non-generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) are revolutionizing the field of accounting by automating accounting processes, enhancing accuracy and efficiency in financial reporting, and ensuring compliance with evolving regulations. The course also addresses critical issues like cybersecurity, data privacy, and ethical considerations specific to the accounting profession. Future trends will also be explored.

Focuses on complex frauds (including financial statement fraud, tax fraud and money laundering), and on non-fraud forensic accounting engagements (including cases of patent infringement, commercial damages and anti-trust.) Covers related investigation methods and legal issues, valuation models, reporting and communicating findings, testifying as an expert witness and other litigation advisory services.

Prerequisites

Complete ACCT-520

Students will focus on the application of technologies in auditing and how the technologies change the audit processes and the audit profession. The course covers data-driven audit methods, the use of AI and machine learning in the audit processes.

Students learn to create powerful reporting tools, to forecast data behavior, and to explore its use in business. This class has a hands-on approach, developed in the context of the application of analytics to business, allowing students to develop the skills necessary to create relevant tools for data-driven organizations. All hands-on work assumes the existence of a technology infrastructure, and no prior knowledge on how to install or maintain the software used in the labs is required.

Students apply the business analytics skills to specific business areas. Students will explore techniques and develop tools that model consumer behavior, supply and demand, and financial performance, in order to predict data evolution in different conflicting scenarios. Students will also apply business analytics to HR decision making such as recruiting, performance measurement, or compensation.

Students will integrate learning and competencies from the Business Analytics program into a single data-based project.? Given a data set, students will ask such questions as why is the data organized as it is, what are the benefits and limitations of the data set, what appropriate visualization elements should be developed, and what business recommendations should be made.

Prerequisites

Complete BANL-580

Graduates of the master of accounting online program will demonstrate the following industry-specific skills, knowledge, and competencies:

  • Interpret financial information and integrate that information, using relevant technologies where appropriate to support decision making by internal and external stakeholders.
  • Assess an organization’s accounting and IT internal controls to ensure the management and protection of sound financial information, reduce financial risks, and meet strategic goals.
  • Communicate financial information that promotes sound financial decision making.
  • Merge traditional accounting practices with technological tools to enhance financial decision-making, reporting, and auditing.

Graduates of the business analytics online graduate certificate program will also demonstrate the following industry-specific skills, knowledge, and competencies: 

  • Use the principles of data organization, storage, security, and application to describe data management strategies for various business contexts, including the challenges and opportunities associated with Big Data, Open Data, and privacy legislations 
  • Integrate and apply descriptive, predictive, and clustering analytics techniques across diverse business areas, employing data visualization, reporting tools, and data storytelling to drive informed business decisions and strategies 
  • Create tools for data visualization in formats designed to support business management 
  • Explore the impact of emerging trends, including emerging technologies, and privacy regulations, in business analytics. 
  • Apply business analytics concepts and techniques to meet business scenario goals

Champlain College Online's business faculty, led by Department Chair Dr. Albert Orbinati, are expert practitioners in the field. Their industry expertise ensures that our business management curriculum is aligned with the needs of employers, and reflects the skills today’s business professionals need for success. Classes led by our seasoned experts will give you real-world insight into the business world, and create a rich community of career-focused learning.

Tuition & Costs

Graduate Tuition Fall '23 - Summer '25

$595 per credit
$1,785* per course
$450** PER CREDIT FOR ALUMNI WHO EARNED A DEGREE FROM CHAMPLAIN, ON-CAMPUS or online
$450 per credit military service members (family members see truED tuition)
$150 One-time graduation fee

*Based on a 3-credit course; cost will vary if course is a different number of credits

** Starting Summer 2024, not retroactive

See the graduate cost of attendance and fees here

 


 

What To Expect at Champlain Online

Expect Convenience

Go to school wherever and whenever is best for you, on the device of your choice.

Expect A Career Focus

Relevant and immediately applicable coursework gets you ready for your next career move

Expect Support

Your dedicated academic advisor provides the support you need to meet your academic goals

Expect Superior Faculty

Learn from practitioner faculty working in the field, with real-world experience and knowledge.

Why Champlain

Online Experience

"I did not expect my online classes to be so collaborative or to have such constant engagement. One might think the traditional classroom approach would have more of those things, but I found them be even more present in Champlain's online format."

Madhava Potluri Master of Business Administration (MBA)
IS Consultant, MetLife
Madhava Potluri, MBA from Champlain College Online

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