Curriculum and Doctoral Pursuits

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Curriculum and Doctoral Pursuits

• BAP/AS S 06

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Curriculum

• AIS option in the BIS degree
• CFMG Corporate Financial Management - a degree
  path under the Accounting Option in the
  Accounting Major
• PACT - Professional Accounting - a degree path
  under the Accounting Option in the Accounting
  Major

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Curriculum

• Chicos CPA Exam pass rate? http//www.csuchico.ed
  u/tk50/AUD/CPA20pass20rates20WEB.xls
• Future accountants, DO NOT avoid taking
  fundamental accounting classes!

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Curriculum

• The CPA Exam Emphases (mapped to accounting
  classes)
• Financial
• Cost
• Audit (IT audit coverage)
• Tax personal and federal!
• Advanced financial (e.g., consolidations)
• Advanced cost
• Governmental/Not-for-profit
• AIS understanding FCs of accounting cycles

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Curriculum

• All other courses are really nice.
• Recruiters are drilling down. The IRS says
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• As you can see, we have (many) position available
  for the Revenue Officer position in the Chico
  Redding offices.
•  Must have 'Advanced Accounting', 'Intermediate
  Accounting', 'Principles of Accounting', 'Cost
  Accounting' and 'Auditing'
• If you have any questions, please do not hesitate
  in contacting me.
•  
• Thank you,
•  
• Gregory M. Leong

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Curriculum

• Punchline TAKE ALL THE REAL ACCOUNTING CLASSES
  YOU CAN WHILE YOU ARE HERE!
• ..in fact, go to Sac State in the summer and
  take a Gov/NP class too!

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PhD in accounting

• Why a PhD? b/c if you want to enter academia
  (teaching/research), a MS or MBA (even with a
  CPA) doesnt give you
• 1. PAY, or
• 2. JOB SECURITY in academia.
• An AACSB PhD is needed for AACSB Certification.

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PhD in accounting Tiered Schools (just my
estimations, dont sue me!)
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PhD in accounting

• Work experience? CPA? Why-why not? How much?
• Professional Self confidence. Personal
  satisfaction that you have practiced what you
  preach.
• Masters Degree?

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PhD in accounting

• What does it take to get in? GMAT GPA?
  Pedigree?
• Accreditation Considerations AACSB? Bling
  Bling? WASC? Internet degree?

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PhD in accounting

• Types of work environment Research versus
  teaching versus both.
• Types of placement and compensation?
• 9 months 2/9ths summers is typical.
• Placement not where you got your degree!

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PhD in accounting Your first two (?) years

• Tools classes? Math skills? Classes out of the
  Econ or Math or Psych or Ag Econ..?
• Seminar classes? Presentations papers.
• Pay while in the PhD program
• Lifestyle while in the PhD program
• Do you learn to teach while in the program?
• What are comprehensive Exams? oral and written.
  You do not want the door prize.

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PhD in accounting Your second two (?) years

• What is a dissertation? What is a research paper
  like?
• http//www.csuchico.edu/tk50/AUD/papers/KMS20AJ
  PT205-31-04.doc
• How about your committee?

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PhD in accounting

• What areas of accounting can I focus in
• Ethics,
• tax,
• Auditing (ex I focused on one small part of
  auditing)
• governmental/NP,
• financial,
• Cost/Managerial,
• International
• ETC!

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PhD in accounting

• What kind of (not focus) Research can I do while
  in the program and up to tenure?
• Surveys
• real data from work papers/ from a company
• laboratory experiments
• theoretical
• Computstat and CRSP tapes
• What is archival
• What is empirical

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PhD in accounting

• After tenure? AQ-ness (per AACSB)
• What does it take to get tenure?
• Depends on the school