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All sixteen courses on the program page are covered.

The financial reporting spine is the heart of the degree. ACC 317 Intermediate Accounting I covers the conceptual framework, revenue recognition under ASC 606, receivables, inventory methods and property, plant and equipment. ACC 318 Intermediate Accounting II continues with liabilities, bonds, leases under ASC 842, income taxes, pensions, equity and earnings per share. ACC 405 Advanced Accounting is where parent companies swallow subsidiaries, foreign operations are translated and governments and charities get their own reporting models.

The management and systems courses come next. ACC 311 Cost Accounting covers job, process and activity-based costing, standard costs and variances. ACC 315 Accounting Information Systems covers business processes, internal controls, databases and ERP systems. ACC 430 Data Analytics for Financial Professionals uses Excel, Tableau or similar tools to analyze ledgers and detect anomalies.

Tax has two courses. ACC 330 Federal Taxation I covers individual income tax: filing status, gross income, deductions, credits and basis. ACC 350 Volunteer Income Tax Assistance prepares students for IRS VITA certification and supervised return preparation for real taxpayers.

Finance and economics round out the core: ACC 345 Financial Statement Analysis/Business Valuation, FIN 330 Corporate Finance, FIN 336 Multinational Corporate Finance, FIN 340 Fundamentals of Investments and ECO 306 Money and Banking.

The forensic set closes it: ACC 421 Auditing and Forensic Accounting, ACC 423 Detection/Prevention Fraudulent Financial Statements and ACC 425 Interview Techniques/Legal Aspects Fraud.

The course table below links each one to its own pages.

Accounting courses depend on one another, so we start with what you have finished, which transfer credit SNHU applied and whether your goal is the CPA, the CMA, a forensic role or a corporate accounting job. That shapes the order and the emphasis.

Each course goes to a matching specialist. An audit senior from a regional CPA firm takes ACC 317 and ACC 318; a controller takes ACC 405 consolidations; a cost accountant from a manufacturer takes ACC 311; a systems auditor takes ACC 315; a data analyst who builds audit analytics takes ACC 430; an enrolled agent takes ACC 330; a certified fraud examiner takes ACC 421, ACC 423 and ACC 425.

One company can carry through the reporting sequence. A fictional furniture manufacturer, for example, might record revenue and inventory in ACC 317, issue bonds and sign leases in ACC 318, acquire a supplier and consolidate it in ACC 405, cost its product lines in ACC 311 and face a revenue recognition fraud in ACC 423. Instructors then see one set of books develop instead of new examples each term.

Inside each 8-week course, posts are written before the module opens, problem sets and projects arrive several days early and a study sheet precedes any quiz. Instructor comments shape the next submission.

When a course ends, the next specialist receives a short note on your company, the figures already used and the tone of your posts.

The Accounting bench is built from practitioners: an audit manager from a regional CPA firm, a corporate controller who prepares consolidated statements, a cost accountant at a manufacturer, an IT auditor, an enrolled agent who prepares hundreds of individual returns each season, a data analytics lead in an internal audit department and a certified fraud examiner who has testified in embezzlement cases.

Nearly all are licensed CPAs.

Their work follows current standards. Revenue is recognized under ASC 606, leases under ASC 842, and tax problems use the current year's rules and figures.

A second CPA reworks each file.

Writers are matched on experience with the exact topic, so a lease question goes to someone who has implemented ASC 842 for clients and a consolidation question to someone who prepares consolidations every quarter.

Intermediate accounting is the first wall. ACC 317 and ACC 318 are long, rule-heavy courses, and topics such as the five-step revenue model, dollar-value LIFO, bond amortization, lease classification and deferred taxes trip up even strong students.

Advanced accounting is the second. ACC 405 consolidation worksheets require eliminating entries for intercompany sales, noncontrolling interest and goodwill, and a single missed elimination throws off the whole consolidation.

Tax is the third. ACC 330 rewards exact knowledge of current rules and limits, which change every year.

Analytics is newer ground. ACC 430 expects comfort with data tools and visualizations that many accounting students have not used.

The forensic courses demand careful reasoning about evidence, internal controls and legal standards.

Most students also work, often in accounting roles where month-end close and tax season collide with 8-week terms.

Research skills add pressure too. Instructors increasingly expect students to cite the FASB codification or IRS guidance directly, and learning to find the right paragraph takes time.

Each Accounting course is priced from its syllabus. The intermediate pair, ACC 405 and ACC 430 are the heaviest; money and banking and investments are the lightest.

You set the scope. Students already working in tax often keep ACC 330; bookkeepers often keep ACC 315; most hand over the intermediate and advanced sequence.

Starting about ten days before a term lets the specialist read every module first. Courses already running are priced from the open module.

Timed quizzes and exams, proctored tests, publisher platform quizzes, VITA certification exams, real tax returns and any recorded interviews stay with you.

Your degree audit helps the coordinator place transfer credit and any courses already completed elsewhere.