Overview

This innovative, technology-based accounting master’s degree is designed to give you recession-proof career stability with transferable skills to maximize your earnings potential.

Accounting firms and clients prefer employees who can provide added value by delivering data analytics and data science services and insights in a more robust way. In this online data visualization degree program, you will develop the ability to communicate such information with understandable and actionable authority, so you can land a high-value professional role without the need for additional certification.

Ideal for students who already have an undergraduate accounting background, this online accounting master’s degree enables you to earn valuable semester hours required to sit for the CPA exam. Prior to enrollment, you should check specific licensure requirements in your state. Choose from electives designed to broaden the knowledge you will need, while learning real-world applications from highly qualified faculty, many of which have extensive experience as practicing CPAs.

Program Learning Outcomes

In this Accountancy Data Analytics degree program of Northern Kentucky University, you will:

Build expertise in accounting analytics, strategic management accounting, ethics, research, standard setting, and practice

Gain a working knowledge of business intelligence systems

Learn to apply accounting concepts to mergers, consolidations, acquisitions, and partnerships

Acquire a foundation in the methodology, sources, and analysis of tax research

Study database design and implementation of relational, object-oriented, and semantic databases used for business decision-making in an enterprise system

Learn methods for the design, analysis, and visualization of organizational data for business planning and decision-making purposes

Study investigative accounting procedures and techniques used in litigation support including financial reporting fraud, damages for personal injury, testifying as an expert witness, and evidence management

Understand business analytics processes, including problem modeling, tools and techniques for analysis, and effectively communicating insights

Examine concepts of partnership taxation, understanding partner bases and liabilities, and distribution sales or exchanges of interest

Prepare for CPA practice in the areas of regulation, financial accounting and reporting, auditing, and attestation

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Tax Research and Practice

Advanced Auditing

Business Law for Accountants

Strategic Management Accounting

Database Management Systems

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 10 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-08-19 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-08-07 00:00:00
Starting 2027-05-06 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-04-24 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

30 SCH

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Highland Heights, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

GPA

2.8

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

Complete online application and pay $40 non-refundable application fee

If you are an NKU alumni or active/veteran military member, your application fee will be waived

Undergraduate degree with a background in accounting that includes completion of two introductory accounting courses and one intermediate accounting course

A current resume with evidence of work experience

Letter(s) of recommendation

Other evidence of preparedness

Tuition Fees

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17535 USD / full

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17535 USD / full

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In-State

17535 USD / full

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Funding

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