的 会计分析理学硕士(MSAA) online graduate program prepares students for a changing field shaped by new technology. 项目主管和长期教员， 凯瑟琳·洛佩兹，他解释了. 爱德华的 gives graduates an edge in the evolving accounting and business market.
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What is the digital transformation of accounting, and when did it start?
随着计算机处理能力的进步, accounting professionals can use analytics technology to process huge amounts of information that, 在过去, 我们就得手工复习了. This allows us to see much more quickly where there are potential anomalies that we should examine.
分析是一个非常有用的新工具, but this tool still requires professionals to ask the right questions and make ethical decisions. Critical thinking skills are perhaps even more important than they used to be.
This transformation has been underway for the past decade and has accelerated with在过去 two to five years. 因为会计行业正在转向更多地关注分析, professionals will need these skills immediately when they enter the workforce.
We work one-on-one with students to help them tailor their elective choices to their professional goals.
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硕士水平的学生如何为这种行业转变做好准备?
其中一部分是学习新的工具. 爱德华的 our students get a lot of hands-on experience with analytics programs including Power BI, Tableau和R.
At the same time, we are not trying to train students on any one system. 我们的课程通过多个系统为学生提供广泛的培训, so that our graduates are able to adapt to the inevitable changes in technology.
更重要的是, the digital transformation means that professionals will have to be able to think at a slightly higher level than they used to. 在过去, accountants would spend more time gathering information and getting to know the data that way. 现在，分析可以非常迅速地提供信息, professionals need to be able to jump in and analyze it to make decisions.
写作技巧在会计中也很重要. Our professionals need to communicate effectively and justify and explain what they’ve done in documentation that can be used years later, 如有必要，在法庭上. 的 MSAA program includes two writing-intensive courses to build those skills.
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为什么道德教育对会计至关重要?
会计是一个建立在信任基础上的职业, 道德是我们保持公众信任的核心.
仅仅教学生什么是道德行为，什么是不道德行为是不够的. 的y first have to be able to recognize when they are dealing with an ethical issue. This is how a lot of people make mistakes: they didn’t even realize they were confronting an ethical problem. 我们教学生如何识别这些问题, and then we teach them a framework for analyzing a situation and making a decision.
当你面对道德挑战的时候, you need the courage and the negotiation skills to speak up to your team or your boss. We teach students how to negotiate those conversations, so they stay employed while being ethical. 我们还讨论了如何知道什么时候该离开, 如果这个问题没有得到适当的处理.
圣十字的使命. 爱德华说我们不只是教育思想, 我们也教育心灵-这, 会计, 非常重要. We require one major ethics course, but ethics is infused throughout the curriculum. 这给了我们的学生一个真正的优势.
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是什么让St. 爱德华的有价值的?
的 education of the mind and heart; the small class size and the community; the ability to network with colleagues and professors; the team-building skillset; and the ability to customize elective credits and build skills by drawing on the MBA and MSBA programs.
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还有什么特别之处呢. 爱德华的学习环境?
Our very small class sizes encourage networking with fellow students and communication with professors. 这是一个在线课程, but we do a lot of breakout groups and collaborative projects that create a feeling of community.
All of our graduate programs in business have a close, collaborative relationship. 选修学分, students have access to courses in our MBA program and our Master of Science in Business Analytics. We work one-on-one with students to help them tailor their elective choices to their professional goals. 如果他们想培养软技能, they can learn communication and negotiation skills through MBA courses. 如果他们想更专注于分析, they can learn programming through our Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA).
Taking courses in the MBA or MSBA broadens students’ perspectives and introduces them to additional contacts and mentors to build their network. It could even inspire them to pursue a professional path they hadn’t considered before.
Critical thinking skills are perhaps even more important than they used to be.
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什么样的4+1或加速学位选择St. 爱德华的报价?
我们提供综合BBA/MSAA课程. 想要在5年内获得两个学位的本科生. We also offer an option for students who have a business degree and want to switch into accounting. 在这个路径中, students can take 7-week asynchronous versions of the four prerequisite courses: Intermediate 会计 I and II, 个人联邦税收, 和审计. Students complete all the prerequisites in one semester while earning four upper-level accounting course credits that count toward the CPA exam. 然后他们可以直接进入硕士课程.
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学生如何在奥斯汀社区建立联系?
Our faculty are, or have been, practitioners with experience in the area they teach. Some have worked in tax; some are practicing lawyers; one was a partner at a Big Four firm. Because we are a small program, students are able to build strong connections with their professors. We also get calls from professionals in the community who want to mentor students. 他们有回馈职业的愿望, 但他们也希望与潜在的未来雇员建立联系.
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MSAA学生毕业后做什么?
Our students are recruited by the Big Four as well as by medium- and small-sized public accounting firms. 的y also go into industry, working in an in-house accounting department at a company.