Upper Iowa University is a pioneer institution from America's Heartland providing quality undergraduate and graduate degree programs to the global community at the residential campus in Fayette, at numerous satellite learning centers in the U.S. and overseas, and through distance education.
This area of emphasis is intended to assist learners with an undergraduate major in accounting to meet the 150-credit education requirement to take the uniform CPA examination. The curriculum expands on undergraduate accounting topics to provide learners advanced skill in the course areas. Learners without an undergraduate major in accounting or 30 semester credits of undergraduate accounting courses may be required to remediate areas in which foundational undergraduate coursework was not previously taken. Learners will be expected to demonstrate knowledge of and be able to apply a range of accounting and financial principles and concepts including, but not limited to:
United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP),
Managerial and Cost Accounting
United States Generally Accepted Audit Standards (GAAS),
Government and Not-For-Profit Accounting Principles
Corporate Financial Management and Federal Taxation