This specialized MBA/GDPA degree will prepare you to earn professional qualification for either the CPA or the CMA exam. With this MBA and professional designation, you can move into a position of leadership in public accounting, industry and commerce, not-for-profit organizations, or government agencies.

Within the MBA/GDPA, you may focus on public accounting, corporate controllership, or not-for-profit controllership. Suffolk University graduates have the highest pass rate for the CPA in Massachusetts.

The MBA/GDPA degree includes six credits (two courses) beyond the MBA. The specialization occurs in the designation of the electives.

The MBA portion of this specialized degree may be completed at our main Boston campus, at our off site location in North Andover and fully online.

Some of the specialized accounting courses are also offered online. Most of the specialized accounting courses must be taken in Boston.

MBA/GDPA Program of Study

•  MBA 600  Effective Career Planning

• MBA 610  Organizational Behavior
• MBA 620  Statistical Methods 
• MBA 625  Operations Management 
• MBA 630  Economic Analysis for Managers 
• MBA 640  Corporate Financial Reporting and Control 
• MBA 650  Value-Based Financial Management 
• MBA 660  Marketing: The Challenge of Managing Value 
• MBA 670  Information Management for Competitive Advantage *if not waived substitute Technology and Financial Information Systems
• MBA 680  Managing in the Ethical and Legal Environment *if not waived, substitute Business Law 

• MBA 780  Managing in the Global Environment
• MBA 800  Strategic Management 

• ACCT 801 Graduate Financial Accounting I
• ACCT 802 Graduate Financial Accounting II 
• ACCT 804 Cost Information, Decision and Control 
• TAX 801  Issues in Federal Taxation I 
• ACIB 872  Multinational Financial Analysis and Control 

Three (9 credits) electives are additional advanced accounting courses, chosen in collaboration with an advisor.

Two (6 credits) electives must be selected from MBA electives and can not be from Accounting or Tax. They may be selected from  business law and ethics, entrepreneurship, finance and managerial economics, health administration, information systems, international business, marketing, organizational behavior, public administration, and strategic management.

** One of your electives must be from the international business area.