Complete ACCT-510
Explore Accounting with Project Management
Push your career forward by combining the financial expertise of a Master’s in Accounting with the strategic and organizational skills provided by a Project Management Certificate. This dual-focus program equips you with essential accounting and business skills, along with the methodologies needed to successfully manage projects from inception to completion. Our program emphasizes integrating cutting-edge technologies like AI, blockchain, and cloud computing into financial processes, while the project management component provides you with the tools to lead projects, optimize costs, and deliver results in dynamic business environments.
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Distinguish yourself with an accredited online master’s degree in accounting that offers:
- Advanced Accounting Skills: Build expertise in financial statement analysis, auditing, and forensic accounting, ensuring you are well-prepared to navigate complex financial landscapes.
- Project Management Proficiency: Develop comprehensive knowledge of project management methodologies, including both agile and traditional approaches. Learn to strategize, oversee, and successfully execute projects while managing resources and budgets effectively.
- Technological Proficiency: Master the integration of AI, blockchain, cloud computing, and advanced project management tools into accounting and business processes to enhance decision-making and efficiency.
- Certifications Preparation: Prepare for advanced certifications like CPA, CMA, and CIA while also gaining project management credentials that will set you apart in the job market.
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Academic Excellence and Recognition
Regionally accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education
Ranked among the Best Online Bachelor’s Programs by U.S. News & World Report
Designated as a Military Friendly School for our commitment to the military community
Named the among the best schools with accelerated bachelor's degrees by Intelligent.com
How Can an MS in Accounting with a Project Management Certificate Help Your Career?
Combining accounting expertise with project management skills positions you for leadership roles across various industries. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of project management specialists is projected to grow 6% from 2022 to 2032, faster than the average for all occupations.* As organizations seek professionals who can manage financial processes while successfully executing projects, this dual focus can lead to positions such as financial controller, project manager, auditor, and financial analyst.
Graduates of this program are well-prepared to pursue professional certifications in both accounting and project management, making them highly competitive in the job market. In 2023, Project management specialists had an average income of $98,580.*
*Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 2024
Top Jobs for MS in Accounting Graduates with Project Management Expertise
- Financial Controller
- Project Manager
- Risk Manager
- Auditor
- Compliance Officer
- Operations Manager
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)
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
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.
This course is designed to introduce a systematic process for planning, organizing and controlling projects. The course will present a practical methodology for completing projects more quickly with fewer problems. Student work will consist of readings, research, class special-topic presentations, group activities, a project management journal, and participation in a real world IT business project. Students will be encouraged to apply project-management techniques to solve existing real-world technology-related business problems.
In this course, students study Agile project management methodologies, in the context of software development, as a way of achieving Software Engineering quality goals. Students will learn what projects lend themselves to an agile approach, and how the agile approach relates to traditional project management, while learning the tools and techniques of Agile.
Prerequisites
Complete SDEV-520
In this course, students will explore project uses of accounting and financial information and the development and use of project cost accounts. An introduction to common cost engineering principles, financial systems, and conventions will enable students to develop and evaluate project budgets. In addition, students will learn techniques to integrate resources, schedules, and cost estimates throughout the life of the project to predict and manage cost performance.
Prerequisites
MBA 506, or evidence of comparable study at another accredited institution
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 project management online graduate certificate program will also demonstrate the following industry-specific skills, knowledge, and competencies:
- Apply traditional project management methodologies to plan, organize, control, and complete projects while ensuring quality goals.
- Articulate strategic solutions to real-world business problems using Agile project management techniques.
- Evaluate financial information and cost accounts in project settings, develop and scrutinize project budgets, and integrate resources, schedules, and cost estimates to anticipate and manage cost performance efficiently.
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
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Meet the Program Director
Albert Orbinati, PhD
Department Chair and Assistant Professor, CCO Business Programs
Oversees
- Business (A.S., B.S., M.S., Certificates)
- Human Resource Management (B.S., Certificates)
- Leadership (M.S.)
- Management Information Systems (B.S.)
- Organization Development & Human Relations (M.S.)
About
Albert Orbinati, PhD, is Assistant Professor and Department Chair for the undergraduate and graduate business programs at Champlain College Online.
Prior to Champlain, Dr. Orbinati's roles have included Assistant Vice President of Online Learning and Continuing Education at Medaille University in Buffalo, NY; Dean of the School of Professional and Continuing Education at Russell Sage College in Albany, NY; and Director of Online and Non-Traditional Programs at Utica University in Utica, NY. In addition to his career in higher education, Albert is a member of the U.S. military, and currently holds the rank of Major in the Vermont Air National Guard.
Dr. Orbinati holds a B.A. in Urban Planning from Binghamton University, an M.A. in Adult Education from Central Michigan University, an M.B.A from Champlain College, and a Ph.D. in Adult Education from Capella University.
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