Accountancy, Data and Analytics Concentration, M.Acc.

Master of Accountancy Requirements

Applicants for the MAcc program are required to complete the GMAT with a recommended score of 500 or higher. In addition, an undergraduate GPA or 3.00 or higher is preferred.  An internship or other relevant employment in the field is strongly encouraged.

MAcc candidates can satisfy the prerequisite requirements in one of two ways.

First method: complete 18 hours in accounting

Students must complete the following courses:

• Financial Accounting (Principles of Accounting 1)
• Managerial Accounting (Principles of Accounting 2)
• Intermediate Accounting 1 and 2
• Federal Income Taxation (Individual Tax)
• Principles of Auditing

Second method: Students can complete Lipscomb’s 9-hour undergraduate Accounting Boot Camp course (AC 4789) to satisfy all undergraduate prerequisites.

All students, particularly those without an undergraduate degree in business, should remember that many states, including Tennessee, require students to have earned a specified number of hours in business to sit for the CPA exam.  Additional hours in business or accounting courses may be recommended to comply with such requirements.

MAcc Core Courses (15 hours)

Required courses for Data and Analytics Concentration (12 hours)

• MAcc 6653 - IT Audit and Risk Management (3)
• ISEC 5113 - Introduction to Information Security (3)
• MITM 5023 - Data and Knowledge Management (3)
• MITM 5213 - Predictive Analytics and Data Mining (3)

Data Analytics Elective (3 hours)

Students in the Data and Analytics concentration take the elective class given below.

• MAcc 6763 - Taxation of Business Entities (3)