Certificate in Accounting
Add Accounting Expertise and Expand Your Career Options
Boost your career-readiness and build skills in one of business’ most fundamental disciplines. The Certificate in Accounting prepares you for financial and quantitative-driven professions and gives you baseline knowledge that is applicable across industries.
Designed for School of Business students
The certificate is open to all non-accounting major Wisconsin School of Business undergraduates.
Continue in the Master’s in Financial Management and Accounting
Certificate recipients are prime candidates to consider the MS in Financial Management and Accounting program and pursue a CPA license, if desired.
Program Overview
4 courses
12 credits
1 required course
(ACCT IS 301, Financial Reporting; 3 credits)
+3 accounting electives
(any course numbered ACCT IS 302 through ACCT IS 699; 9 credits total)
Popular Majors to Pair With the Certificate
Finance, investment and banking; risk management and insurance; real estate; information systems; operations and technology management
What You’ll Learn
- Foundations in financial reporting and analysis
- Ethical business decision-making based on financial information
- Information systems and the impact of emerging technology
- Impact of taxation on business transactions
- Expanding role of assurance services
- Appreciation for the global and diverse nature of the profession
Advising
If you have questions about undergraduate certificates, email the School of Business undergraduate advising center at wibbaadvising@wsb.wisc.edu or call 608-262-0471.