MBA for Accountants

If you are accepted into the online MBA program with your professional accounting designation, you receive direct transfer of 9 credits based on previous coursework and experience, for:

• Phase 1 core: Financial and Managerial Accounting (FMAC 503)*
• Phase 2 core: Corporate Finance (CFIN 601)
• 1 three-credit elective

which allows you to finish your program up to 6 months faster.

*Note: All full program online MBA students write a Phase 1 Comprehensive Exam which requires them to display understanding of FMAC 503 course content. Students can discuss this with their student services coordinator and, if necessary, purchase the course materials to review.

Phase 1

Five foundational courses build upon each other and are capped by a week-long comprehensive examination.

This exam is case-based and requires students to integrate and apply all they have learned to this point.

The Phase 1 Comprehensive Exam requires students to display understanding of FMAC 503 course content. Students can discuss this with their student services coordinator and, if necessary, purchase the course materials to review.

Phase 1 core courses

• Strategic Management
• Human Resource Management
• Marketing Management
• Managerial Economics and Quantitative Analysis
• Operations Management
• Comprehensive Exam

Phase 2

Three core advanced courses solidify students’ holistic, organizational view of the senior management function.

In this phase, students also complete 15 elective credits, either in the form of 5* elective courses, or 2* elective courses plus an applied project.

At least 1 elective must be taken in residence. In-residence electives are held in locations across Canada and internationally. View this page to learn more about the in-residence requirement.

*Some in residence electives are 6 credits and can be taken in lieu of two, 3-credit electives.

Phase 2 core courses

• Information Technology Strategy
• Strategy and Organizational Analysis
• Ethical Decision Making

Electives

• two, 3-credit elective courses plus a 9-credit applied project, or
• five, 3-credit elective courses

Elective courses

To see a list of electives you can choose from, view the course schedule here.

To be accepted into the AU online MBA with your accounting designation, you must meet the following qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree, your designation and at least 3 years of managerial experience that may include managing people, projects or budgets or professional experience with management level responsibilities,
  or
• Your designation plus at least 5 years of managerial experience that may include managing people, projects or budgets or professional experience with management level responsibilities.

To apply, you must also meet all the same admission requirements and construct the same application package as others who apply for the online MBA for executives program. View admissions information.

If you are accepted into the online MBA for executives program via the accelerated entry route and hold an accounting designation, you will realize most of your benefits from the accelerated route itself which reduces overall MBA completion requirements from the standard 48 credits.

You will also receive additional transfer credit for one, 3-credit online elective course, meaning you will be able to complete your program even quicker and be required to complete a total of 27 credits.

Phase 1

One foundational course, Strategic Management, is taken as the pre-requisite for all other MBA courses.

Phase 1 core courses

• Strategic Management

Phase 2

After completing 1 core advanced class, students complete 21 elective credits, either in the form of 7* elective courses, or 4* elective courses plus an applied project.

At least 1 elective must be taken in residence. In-residence electives are held in locations across Canada and internationally. View this page to learn more about the in-residence requirement.

*Some in residence electives are six credits and can be taken in lieu of two, three credit electives.

Phase 2 core courses

• Ethical Decision Making

Electives

• four, 3-credit elective courses plus a 9-credit applied project, or
• seven, 3-credit elective courses

Elective courses

To see a list of electives you can choose from, view the course schedule here.

To be accepted via the accelerated entry route to the AU online MBA for executives with your accounting designation, you must have the following:

• A bachelor’s degree in business, completed within the past 10 years, with a minimum grade point average of 3.0 or higher for the last 60 credits taken, and
• At least 3 years of managerial experience that may include managing people, projects, or budgets or professional experience with management level responsibilities.

You must meet all the same admission requirements and construct the same application package as others who apply for the accelerated route to the MBA. View admissions information.