iMSA Program Requirements

• Accounting Analysis I - ACCY 501
• Accounting Analysis II - ACCY 502
• Managerial Accounting - ACCY 503
• Auditing - ACCY 504
• Federal Taxation - ACCY 505

• Advanced Financial Reporting - ACCY 506
• Taxation of Business Entities – ACCY 507
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics for Accountants – ACCY 516
• Financial Statement Analysis & Valuation - ACCY 517
• Government & Nonprofit Accounting - ACCY 519
• Multistate Taxation - ACCY 550
• International Tax - ACCY 554
• Data Driven Decisions in Accounting - ACCY 569
  
• Risk Management and Innovation - ACCY 574
• Data Preparation for Accounting - ACCY 576
• Machine Learning for Accounting - ACCY 577
• Accounting Analytics Applications – ACCY 578

Most non-accountancy electives are 8-week, 4-credit hour courses and can be taken year-round (fall, spring, and summer semesters). We've provided a few non-accountancy electives below. You'll find the full list of non-accountancy electives on the course offerings page. 

• Corporate & Commercial Law - BADM 403
• Infonomics - MBA 565
• BDI 577 - Disruption & Emerging Technologies
• ACCY 593 - AI in Business: Fundamentals, Applications, and the Future
• MBA 571 - Healthcare Ecosystem and Need Identification
• MBA 572 - Healthcare Innovation Processes
• MBA 573 - Healthcare Business Strategy and New Venture Implementation
  

The iMSA Program currently offers one transcriptable concentration, the Accountancy Analytics Concentration. Students who wish to have this concentration appear on their transcript must complete 12 hours of approved courses. The recommended course completion of this concentration is:

• ACCY 569
• ACCY 576
• ACCY 577
• MBA 565
• Two sections of ACCY 578     

A Graduate Student Petition is required to request the concentration be added to your record. The concentration will be listed on your transcript, but will not appear on your diploma. No coursework substitutions are allowed to complete the concentration.  

If you are interested in completing the Accountancy Analytics concentration as part of your degree, please work with our student and academic success specialists.   

Required Coursework:

• ACCY 569: Data Driven Decisions in Accounting (2 credit hours)
• ACCY 576: Data Preparation for Accounting (2 credit hours)

Select 8 hours of approved electives below. MBA 561 should be completed prior to taking MBA 563 or MBA 564 in order to be successful.

• ACCY 577 Machine Learning
• ACCY 578 Accounting Analytics Applications
• MBA 563 Data Toolkit: Business Data Modeling & Predictive Analytics
• MBA 564 Special Topics 1 and 2
• MBA 565: Infonomics

To earn a graduate certificate as part of the iMSA, you must complete all 12 credit hours of graduate certificate coursework during your degree program. iMSA learners can elect to earn one graduate certificate during their degree program. 

• Accounting Data Analytics (ADA) 
• CPA Pathways 
• Business Analytics 
• Digital Marketing 
• Entrepreneurship and Strategic Innovation 
• Financial Management
• Global Challenges in Business
  
• Managerial Economics & Business Analysis
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Strategic Leadership & Management
• Taxation
• Value Chain Management

To earn a graduate certificate as you must complete the two-step process of adding the certificate to your record through a Curriculum Change Petition and then applying to graduate through self-service to officially confer your graduate certificate. It is highly recommended that you add your intended certificate to your record early in your degree program.

Please refer to the University Calendar to identify academic deadlines to add to your record and confer a degree each semester. You may add to your record and confer in different semester. 

Fall Deadlines  l   Spring Deadlines   l    Summer Deadlines  

1. Login to the Graduate Student Portal using your NetID and password 
2. Under the "Forms and Resources" section, click on the "Graduate Student Petition" link and "Start a new petition" 
3. Select "Curriculum Change" and "Other" as your request type and complete all fields on the form 
4. Are you currently on an upcoming degree list? Select "Yes" or "No" to indicate if you have already applied to graduate from the iMSA. You can verify this by clicking on the “View Graduation Application” in the UIUC Self-Service “Graduation” section
5. Enter the effective Term: Enter the term you wish to desire to add this to your academic record
6. Select Curriculum Change Category: "Current doctoral or master's student adding a secondary certificate program curriculum" 
7. Add the certificate you are requesting in the "New Degree Program" option from the drop-down list 
8. Please provide a detailed explanation of your request.
   "Please add the {list focus area} Graduate Certificate to my academic record effective in {list term}"
9. Click "continue" when you have completed these steps and to submit your petition. 

It may take up to one week to see this added to your academic record after submitting the petition. The Graduate College will send you an email confirming the certificate has been added to your academic record.