Accounting as the basis of an information system with emphasis on concepts and assumptions underlying data accumulation for financial reports. Includes the concepts of income determination and financial position, and the accounting for various types of ownership equities.

Prerequisite: Entry Level Math (ELM) test of at least 36 or a CR grade in LS 7A.

Use and reporting of accounting data for managerial planning, control, and decision making. Broad coverage of concepts, classification, and behavior of costs.

Prerequisite: ACCY 1.

In-depth knowledge of how financial information provides information about a company's: economic resources, obligations, and owner's equity; income and its components; and cash flows. Topics include the development and application of basic assumptions, principles and constraints underlying financial statements; the use of information derived from financial statements and the limitations of the information; and the use of accounting information to evaluate a company's return on investment, risk, financial, flexibility, liquidity, and operational capability. Students learn how to prepare financial statements.

Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to the reporting of tangible and intangible assets, liabilities, and the capital section of the balance sheet. Other topics include the reporting of stock-based compensation and earnings-per-share.

Prerequisite: ACCY 111.

Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to revenue recognition and matching, pensions, leases, income taxes, accounting changes, interim financial statements, and segmental reporting. Students develop an in-depth knowledge of the preparation and the analysis of the cash flow statement.

Prerequisite: ACCY 111.

Specialized topics in partnership accounting; consolidated statements; foreign currency translation and financial statements.

Prerequisite: ACCY 111 and ACCY 112.

Importance of the allocation of costs; the cost allocation techniques available to accountants; the techniques used by management to maintain and create enterprise value, e.g., CVP analysis; the accountant's responsibility for the management of inventory; and the ethical consideration in internal reporting.

Accountant's responsibility to provide financial and no financial information to managers; the planning techniques available to accountants; managerial control techniques that enhance the maintenance and improvement of enterprise value, and short-run and long-run analyses.

Prerequisite: ACCY 121.

Survey of topics in auditing as a control activity in society. Covers a variety of opportunities in the auditing profession including external auditing, internal auditing, compliance auditing, and operational auditing as well as fraud examinations. Topics include evidence and documentation, professional ethics, auditing computer systems, statistical sampling, and internal controls.

Prerequisite: ACCY 111, ACCY 112.

Material related to the practice of auditing as an external auditor of financial statements, i.e., a Certified Public Accountant. Topics include professionalism, ethics, rules of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants as they relate to the audit of financial statements, audit risk and materiality, evaluation of internal controls, evidence, reporting and other assurance services.

Prerequisite: ACCY 111, ACCY 112.

Corequisite: ACCY 131.

Fundamentals of accounting and financial reporting for governmental units and institutions; accounting for various types of funds; accounting aspects of budgetary control.

Federal taxation concepts are used in effective decision making; a working knowledge of the concepts of gross income, deductions, tax rates, and property transactions as they pertain to C corporations, partnerships, S corporations, and individuals; and proficiency in the application of tax concepts as they pertain to business and individual taxpayers.

Business entity formation, operation, and termination and business taxation principles and concepts used in effective decision-making. Students develop the ability to understand and apply business tax principles and the critical and analytical skills that are necessary in the study and application of taxation and tax law.

Prerequisite: ACCY 171.

Accounting concepts, principles, and methods applicable to multinational transactions and global corporations. Contents include the translation of financial statements, comparative accounting systems, financial reporting, currency risk management, international accounting standards and organizations, taxation problems, and the managerial aspects of multinational transactions.

In-depth supervised work experience in accounting for the purpose of exposing the student to comprehensive accountancy experience in business, governmental, or service agencies.

Note: Open to upper division students, subject to permission of the Accountancy Area. Petitions can be obtained from the Student Affairs Office, Tahoe 2065.

Prerequisite: Minimum overall GPA of 2.75; instructor permission.

Supervised work experience in accountancy for the purpose of increasing student understanding of the nature and scope of the operations of business, governmental, or service agencies. Supervision is provided by the faculty and the cooperating agencies.

Note: Open to declared business administration upper division majors only, subject to permission of the Accountancy Area. Petitions can be obtained from the Student Affairs Office, Tahoe 2065. Prerequisite: Completion of 15 units of upper division business courses at Sacramento State; minimum overall GPA of 2.75; instructor permission.

Designed for students who enter the Master of Science Accountancy program without a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy or students who need to refresh their basic skills and understanding in record keeping, financial statement preparation and analysis, ethics in the practice of accounting, and internal controls through the use of comprehensive case study/practice set. Delivered via independent project work rather than lecture.

Intensive study of accounting principles and financial statements. Designed for students who enter the Master of Science Accountancy program without the full sequence of Intermediate Financial Accounting in the last seven years.

The role of culture in accounting; comparative international financial and managerial accounting fundamentals; international financial statement analysis; international accounting standards and U.S. GAAP convergence; international business combinations; foreign exchange; international auditing; international taxation; and international capital flows.

Prerequisite: ACCY 250 or equivalent.

Financial accounting theory development, principles underlying corporate financial statements, alternative methods and principles, survey of current literature in financial accounting theory. Additional topics may include the relationship between financial statements and security prices, market efficiency, and casework in accounting aspects of financial statement analysis.

Prerequisite: ACCY 112, ACCY 113 or ACCY 250.

Fundamentals of cost accounting concepts and practice relating to cost accumulation, control, and analysis for managerial planning and decision making. Specific topics generally include product costing, standards, cost allocation, estimation, budgeting, transfer pricing, and performance evaluation. Emphasis is on current issues.

Intensive analysis of the Internal Revenue Code as it affects the business enterprise; study of the tax law as it relates to the economical, political, and social environment within which it developed; discussion of tax cases to give the student an appreciation for the complexity of the tax law, and special tax problems relating to formation, current operation, and liquidation of corporations, partnerships, estates, and trusts. Tax planning and research methodology are emphasized.

Focuses on the taxation of cross-border transactions which encompasses discussion of the laws, rules, and regulations that affect transactions that cross both state and national borders. It covers various issues such as income sourcing and jurisdiction to tax. This course generally discusses these issues from the perspective of a U.S. person, but emphasizes and illustrates the general applicability of these rules for the tax regimes as established by other countries and states.