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GPA and percentages are weighted by recorded letter grades. UW comparisons use the same terms. Cross-listed courses count once within this department and once across UW; department totals should not be added together. Grade counts are not unique students. Offering counts reflect captured records, not a complete historical schedule.

Spring 2027

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26 courses

Introductory Financial Accounting covers GAAP for measuring and reporting financial information in key statements and introduces analyzing accounting data for decisions.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · Terry Warfield

Students noted that most of the grade was based on exams, which they described as horrible, while other assignments like Wiley Plus homework had less impact.

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Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Introductory Managerial Accounting covers concepts for decision-making and uses accounting information for planning, decision-making, and controlling business operations across various management environments.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · Brett Killion

Weekly assignments and quizzes were required, with a final exam that closely followed the extensive provided materials.

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Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Examines financial and managerial accounting for business decisions, emphasizing financial statement preparation and interpretation, cost determination, and planning/control.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · John Wild

The course involved significant weekly homework and several quizzes. Students noted that reading the textbook word for word was necessary, and success required staying on top of assignments to pass fair exams.

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Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Financial Reporting I examines current and emerging financial reporting theory and techniques to measure and disclose assets and determine income, emphasizing analysis and measurement.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · Ruyun (Ivy) Feng

One student found exams difficult because they differed from practice materials, and noted that students were expected to read the textbook even when lecture content did not fully cover it.

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Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Financial Reporting II examines current and emerging financial reporting theory and techniques used primarily to measure and disclose financial claims on assets.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Cost Management Systems covers design of actual and standard cost systems for job, process, and activity costing, overhead allocation, budgeting, profit planning, variance analysis, and behavioral considerations.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Introduction to U.S. income taxation concepts with emphasis on business and personal planning strategies, including preparation of individual, corporate, and partnership returns.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Spring 2023–Spring 2026

Accounting Information Systems covers understanding, documenting, and evaluating integrated enterprise systems, applying technology to model and query data, and assessing system design and controls.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Covers commercial paper, real estate, personal property, partnerships, corporations, and bankruptcy within business organizations and negotiable instruments.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Fall 2024–Spring 2026

Advanced accounting for alternative reporting entities, consolidations, foreign operations, and complex instruments.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Professional Experience in Accounting offers a first-hand opportunity to experience a professional accounting practice and integrate this experience with the curriculum.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Spring 2023–Spring 2025

Fundamentals of Taxation applies federal tax provisions and administrative rules common to most taxpayers, introducing rules specific to corporations, pass-through entities, and individuals.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Corporate and advanced taxation focusing on federal tax provisions for corporations and shareholders, S corporations, and tax planning.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Foundations of Auditing covers financial statement audits, corporate governance, audit process components, accounting cycles, and internal controls.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Financial Reporting I examines current and emerging financial accounting theory and techniques for measuring and reporting financial information to external users, emphasizing asset and liability valuations, income determination, and GAAP.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Financial Reporting II examines advanced financial accounting theory for reporting to external users, covering topics like revenue recognition, taxes, and leases.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Past student reviews · Matthew Griffith

The course was significantly harder than Accounting 301, with exams that students found difficult.

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Managerial Accounting covers interpretation of accounting data for management planning, decision making, and control, including cost-volume-profit relationships and activity-based costing.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Fall 2022–Fall 2025

Introduction to international tax issues including tax treaties, foreign tax credits, Subpart F rules, and inbound investment taxation.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Spring 2023–Spring 2026

Advanced Auditing: Analysis, Policy, and Judgment applies an analytics mindset to audit and assurance principles for financial and non-financial information, focusing on professional judgments.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Spring 2023–Spring 2026

Explores control, security, and forensics of accounting information systems, covering data governance, IT risks, internal controls, assurance services, CAATTs, and fraud.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Spring 2023–Spring 2026

Analysis of Performance Measurement & Control covers design and effectiveness of performance measurement and management control systems, focusing on their use in developing a firm's organizational architecture.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Spring 2023–Spring 2026

Analysis of Taxes & Business Decisions covers readings and cases in taxation, focusing on integrating tax provisions and assessing taxpayer impact on business decisions.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Spring 2023–Spring 2026

Seminar in Accounting Research provides tools for consuming and synthesizing accounting research to identify important questions and conduct research.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

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Fall 2025–Fall 2025 · limited sample