Accounting

• QST AC 848: Intermediate Accounting 2
  Graduate Prerequisites: (QSTAC847) - This course focuses on the recognition and measurement of issues in accounting related to income taxes, lease obligations, and pension liabilities and equity. It focuses further on the preparation of, and uses for, statement of cash flows; calculating, reporting, and interpreting financial measures, including earnings per share; the nature and purpose of segment and interim reporting; and accounting for changing prices. The course also provides a brief overview of the auditor's opinion.
• QST AC 860: Accounting for Risk and Portfolio Management
  The objective of this course is to provide students who have no previous accounting knowledge with the accounting tools necessary for a better understanding of a firm's fundamentals, to enable a meaningful economic assessment of the firm's risk and potential return.
• QST AC 865: Auditing Issues & Problems
  Graduate Prerequisites: QST AC848 (previous or concurrent) - Introduces the basic concepts underlying auditing and assurance services (including materiality, audit risk, and evidence) and demonstrates how to apply those concepts to audit and assurance services through financial statement audits.
• QST AC 869: Principles of Income Taxation 1
  Graduate Prerequisites: QST AC847 (previous or concurrent) - Federal income tax law common to all taxpayers--individuals, partnerships, corporations. Tax returns for individuals. Topics include tax accounting, income to be included and excluded in returns, tax deductions, ordinary and capital gains and losses, inventories, installment sales, depreciation, bad debts, and other losses.
• QST AC 895: Action Learning Directed Study in Accounting
  ALDS: ACCTG
• QST AC 898: Directed Study: Accounting
  Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor and the department chair - Graduate-level directed study in Accounting. 1, 2, or 3 cr. Application available on the Graduate Center website.
• QST AC 899: Directed Study: Accounting
  Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor and the department chair - Graduate-level directed study in Accounting. 1, 2, or 3 cr. Application available on the Graduate Center website.
• QST AC 901: Introduction to Accounting Research
  Introduction to basic tools in financial accounting and managerial accounting research; domain of accounting research and research methods employed; using computerized databases in large sample financial accounting studies; basic managerial accounting modeling tools.
• QST AC 909: Contemporary Accounting Topics
  This course, required of accounting doctoral students, introduces several fields of contemporary accounting research and research methodologies which are not covered in the financial accounting, managerial accounting, and research methods seminars. This seminar is also intended to provide an opportunity for students to study interdisciplinary research involving accounting.
• QST AC 918: Financial Accounting Research
  This course, required of accounting doctoral students, covers contemporary research in financial accounting, reviewing major trends and addressing methodological issues in such research. The course emphasis is on development of skills in designing and executing research projects involving financial accounting.
• QST AC 919: Managerial and Cost Accounting
  This course, required of accounting doctoral students, covers contemporary research in managerial accounting. We review major trends in analytical and empirical research, including agency theory. Students are required to design a research project around a managerial accounting question.
• QST AC 990: Current Topics Seminar
  For PhD students in the Accounting department. Registered by permission only.
• QST AC 998: Directed Study: Accounting
  Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor and the department chair - PhD-level directed study in Accounting. 1, 2, or 3 cr. Application available on the Graduate Center website.
• QST AC 999: Directed Study: Accounting
  Graduate Prerequisites: consent of instructor and the department chair - PhD-level directed study in Accounting. 1, 2, or 3 cr. Application available on the Graduate Center website.
• QST SR 831: Sustainability Reporting
  (formerly AC831) The course addresses sustainability reporting. We will examine the evolving protocols for such disclosure: Integrated Reporting, Sustainability Accounting Standards, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Carbon Disclosure Project, and the Global Reporting Initiative. Students will learn about the range of sustainability disclosures, develop an ability to think critically about them and gain knowledge about the challenges of implementing them.