Master of Business Administration with Accounting Concentration Online

The rigorous, AACSB-accredited MBA with Accounting Concentration online program at ESU offers you both a broad business management base and 9 credit hours of specialized accounting, plus an additional accounting elective course. Accounting-specific coursework is applicable to real-world situations and gives you the knowledge and tools to competently navigate within the areas of financial management and reporting, taxation, and auditing. Coursework can be applied to help meet the 150-hour requirement to sit for the CPA Exam.

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Program Overview

Learn the how and why of our online Master of Business Administration with Accounting Concentration program

The Master of Business Administration with Accounting Concentration online at Emporia State University is your best asset in honing the leadership abilities, essential business knowledge, and advanced accounting expertise you need to move ahead in your accounting management career.

This AACSB-accredited MBA in accounting program, now delivered 100% online via accelerated 7-week courses, is taught by faculty with first-hand professional experience. Coursework can be applied toward the 150-hour requirement for the Uniform CPA Examination. Six starts per year and ESU's streamlined admission process help you get started right away.

ESU's online accounting MBA is especially valuable if you are planning to both further your accounting career and manage financial professionals or corporate financial decision-making, as it offers a powerful combination of broad-based knowledge in business practice and more accounting concentration courses than most similar MBA programs (12-15 credit hours). Case study-driven coursework means you can apply what you learn immediately within your current position.

Required accounting courses give you the insights and relevant tools to competently navigate within areas of financial management and reporting. You will study advanced accounting, including accounting theory, advanced accounting issues, taxation implications for types of corporations and other fiduciary entities, and tax planning. Core MBA coursework spans the fundamentals of managerial economics, marketing, and financial management as well as the use of information systems and technology in quantitative analysis to inform dynamic decision-making.

Supplement your knowledge with electives that include Fraud Examination, Advanced Auditing, and Advanced Accounting Information Systems, Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting, among others.

In this online accounting MBA program, you will:

  • Gain an understanding of accounting theory within the context of policy setting and financial reporting
  • Learn to manage advanced accounting issues, including cost behavior, activity-based costing, budgeting, pricing, cost management, capital investment, and inventory management
  • Complete an advanced study of taxation as it applies to sole proprietorships, C and S corporations, partnerships, limited-liability entities, and fiduciaries
  • Hone your working knowledge of organizational behavior and managerial response
  • Learn to use information systems for managerial decision-making as well as understanding the use of complex technologies for organizational support
  • Study and apply the fundamentals of managerial economics and financial management
  • Integrate all aspects of your MBA program learnings and gain an understanding of the managerial role in policy formulation and strategic development
In this online accounting MBA program, you will:+
  • Gain an understanding of accounting theory within the context of policy setting and financial reporting
  • Learn to manage advanced accounting issues, including cost behavior, activity-based costing, budgeting, pricing, cost management, capital investment, and inventory management
  • Complete an advanced study of taxation as it applies to sole proprietorships, C and S corporations, partnerships, limited-liability entities, and fiduciaries
  • Hone your working knowledge of organizational behavior and managerial response
  • Learn to use information systems for managerial decision-making as well as understanding the use of complex technologies for organizational support
  • Study and apply the fundamentals of managerial economics and financial management
  • Integrate all aspects of your MBA program learnings and gain an understanding of the managerial role in policy formulation and strategic development

This accelerated online MBA program prepares you for roles such as:

  • CPA
  • Auditing Manager
  • Budget Analyst
  • Revenue Manager
  • Financial Manager
This accelerated online MBA program prepares you for roles such as:+
  • CPA
  • Auditing Manager
  • Budget Analyst
  • Revenue Manager
  • Financial Manager
+

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For more specialized skills, Emporia State offers a wide range of online MBA programs. Explore all of our graduate degrees in business.

$11,979* Total Tuition
As few as 12 months Duration
33 Credit Hours

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Tuition

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Emporia State University offers accessible and affordable online degree programs designed to advance your professional qualifications. Tuition for the MBA with Accounting Concentration online degree program is the same for in-state and out-of-state students. All fees are included.

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Program Per Credit Hour Per Course Per Program*
MBA, Accounting Concentration $363 $1,089 $11,979

Tuition breakdown:

$11,979* Total Tuition
$363 Per Credit Hour

Calendar

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The MBA with Accounting Concentration program is delivered in an online format ideal for working professionals, conveniently featuring six start dates each year. Choose the start date that's best for you.

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7 week coursesProgram Start DateApplication DeadlineDocument DeadlineRegistration DeadlinePayment Due
Summer 2025, Session II6/30/256/16/256/19/256/23/256/26/25
Fall 2025, Session I8/18/258/4/258/7/258/11/258/14/25
Fall 2025, Session II10/14/259/30/2510/3/2510/7/2510/10/25

Now enrolling:

8/4/25 Apply Date
8/18/25 Class Starts

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Admissions

Find out what you need to apply to our online MBA with Accounting Concentration program

To apply for the MBA with Accounting Concentration online, you must hold a bachelor's degree with a major in accounting from a regionally-accredited (or equivalent) institution, or a bachelor's degree in business from a regionally-accredited (or equivalent) institution with a transcript showing completion of required accounting background courses.

Admission Requirements:

  • Official transcripts from all colleges and universities previously attended
  • Undergraduate degree from an accredited institution
  • 3.0 GPA on undergraduate coursework
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MBA with Accounting Concentration Online Admission Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree with a major in accounting from a regionally-accredited (or equivalent) institution, or a bachelor's degree in business from a regionally-accredited (or equivalent) institution with a transcript showing completion of:
    • Intermediate Accounting I
    • Cost Accounting
    • Income Taxation
  • GPA of 3.0 or higher (4.0 system) cumulative or in the last 60 semester hours of study
    • Coursework completed toward a master’s program may be included in the most recent 60 hours
    • Minimum GPA of 2.65 may be considered
  • Official transcripts from all previously attended institutions

Applicants with a 2.65 to 2.99 GPA may be admitted if other factors point to likely success in the program. Some categories that will highlight potential for success include:

  • 2-4 years of work experience or study in a field that includes quantitative analysis

Official transcripts from all institutions attended can be submitted via a secure electronic service offered by the issuing institution to [email protected] or by selecting Emporia State University on the transcript request form, mailed (or overnighted) to:

Emporia State University
Graduate School
Room 313 Plumb Hall
1 Kellogg Circle
Emporia, KS 66801

Students who have obtained a degree from a foreign university/college must have a transcript evaluation from a recommended external source that is a member of NACES (National Association of Credential Evaluation Services). Students will not be allowed to enroll until the evaluation has been received in the Graduate School.

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Courses

Get to know your online MBA with Accounting Concentration degree plan

The MBA with Accounting Concentration online curriculum is comprised of 11 courses (33 credit hours), including 21 credit hours of core courses, 9 credit hours of required accounting courses, and a 3 credit hour elective.

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You must take the following courses.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This is an MBA-level course that examines the finance function of a firm from the viewpoint of the internal financial manager. The course emphasizes the conceptual and quantitative tools used to accomplish financial analysis, financial planning and control, management of working capital, and long-term assets, determining cost of capital and planning financial structures.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is an extension of microeconomic analysis to enterprises in the private and public sectors of the economy. Major emphasis is placed on the application of statistics and economic theory to decision-making in the firm. Backgrounds in economics (micro and macro) and statistics, as well as graduate standing, are required for this course.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is designed to introduce the student to quantitative approaches in business decision-making. It includes decision analysis, regression analysis in forecasting, linear and integer programming, transportation, assignment and transshipment problems, project scheduling, inventory management, simulation, and multi-criteria decision problems. The software packages Management Scientist, Excel and/or SAS/SPSS are used to solve quantitative business analysis problems.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course is study of the management of information technology as it is practiced in organizations today. Traditional organizations are moving toward a more interconnected or networked business environment. A major focus will be understanding the role and use of complex technology in the support of individual, workgroup, enterprise, inter-enterprise and international computing. A background in information technology is required.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
In this course, the behavior of humans—individually, in groups and in organizations—is examined for managerial aspects. Particular attention is paid to the effects caused by diversity, reorganization and current environmental conditions.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides the graduate student with an understanding of the managerial role in the policy-formulation process and development of strategies to attain objectives. Prerequisite: Student must be enrolled in the final semester of study for the MBA.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
In this course, the tasks of marketing are reviewed and analyzed within the context of a cross-functional and a marketing-oriented organization. Emphasis is placed on the dynamic environment of the organization and marketing with the intent to recognize, understand and integrate changes into the marketing process. Students are required to engage in critical thinking and expository writing.
You must take the following courses.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course features advanced study of taxation as it applies to sole proprietorships, C and S corporations, partnerships, limited-liability entities, and fiduciaries including the tax implications of forming, operating and dissolving such entities. Advanced topics such as financial tax accounting concepts, employee compensation, related party transactions and tax planning are also included.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course covers advanced management accounting topics, including cost behavior, cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis, activity-based costing, master budgeting, responsibility accounting, relevant costing, strategic cost management, flexible budgeting, variance analysis, inventory costing, capacity analysis, activity-based management, the Balanced Scorecard, joint product cost allocation, data analytic thinking and prediction, and ethical control.

You must take two of the following courses. Elective course options will vary by term and are subject to change.

Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the conceptual and theoretical foundations of generally accepted accounting principles within the context of policy setting and the economics of financial reporting. Key accounting concepts and practices are discussed through a review of relevant accounting literature.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Correct course description is: This course is designed to enhance and expand the knowledge and skill of students interested in careers in Business Analytics. Concepts, methods, and models used in business analytics will be considered toward the improvement of business decisions. Data, statistical analysis, quantitative methods and computer based models will be used to gain deeper and broader business insights and better fact-based decision making.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
Advanced study of taxation as it applies to sole proprietorships, C and S Corporations, partnerships, limited liability entities, and fiduciaries including the tax implications of forming, operating, and dissolving such entities. Also covers advanced topics such as financial tax accounting concepts, employee compensation, related party transactions, and tax planning.
Duration: 7 Weeks weeks
Credit Hours: 3
This course seeks to examine the linkages between information systems and accounting and to prepare students to be trusted business advisors. The course provides an overview of how to understand, analyze and control computerized information systems.

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