Academics

The rapidly evolving technological landscape is transforming how firms manage and control financial data. The growing reliance on data analytics across organizations has fueled demand for professionals with specialized skills to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of analytics in accounting and auditing. UC Irvine’s MPAc program, in partnership with Deloitte, offers a unique Data Analytics track designed to meet this growing need.

UC Irvine's Tax Track equips students with the expertise to identify, analyze, and report tax-planning opportunities for domestic and international businesses. Students will gain a deeper understanding of how taxes impact business decisions, master key tax planning strategies and learn to apply provisions for accurate financial reporting.

This course combines practitioner and academic insights to explore effective corporate board management, including board member selection, key committee roles, legal responsibilities, and relationships with stockholders and the CEO. Students will sharpen communication, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills in corporate governance and related legal and ethical issues.

Provides students with information and practical skills for success in the program and for professional accounting and business career planning, and with discussions of current issues confronting the accounting profession.

Develops skills to analyze corporate financial reports. Topics include profitability, risk analysis, cash flow analysis, revenue and asset recognition, and valuation. The skills are useful for students to evaluate financial reporting quality, detect earnings management, and predict firms' financial performance.

Develops a student's ability to identify, understand, and evaluate tax planning opportunities. The focus is on tax planning concepts and the effects of taxes on business decisions rather than on detailed tax rules, compliance, or legal research.

Design of cost information and systems used to plan and control organizational activities; procedures used to account for unit, process, and program costs; cybernetic evaluation of costing procedures; cost estimation, analysis, and accounting via computers.

Designed to provide advanced coverage of topics and emerging issues in auditing, assurance services, and fraud detection. Provides a deeper understanding of the fundamental concepts of auditing, assurance services, and developing hot topics within the auditing profession.

Designed to introduce students to the intellectual principles of ethical decision-making by emphasizing the theories of ethics and their application in business, specifically accounting professions. MPAc capstone course with a final comprehensive exam for the program.

Combines research of the professional accounting literature on a range of technical topics with written communication and oral presentations of the findings.