These courses must be approved by the Program Director. Per accreditation standards, BIS courses are not considered accounting. The MSU Business Information Systems faculty, Professors Grabski, McCarthy, Pentland and Speier, are known internationally for this educational program and for their research. Professors Gray, Haka, Jacobs, Krishnan, Luft, Marshall, and Shields are outstanding managerial accounting educators and researchers. This option addresses public accounting practice - attestation and consulting.
Finance is often a student's second area of study.
Professors Arens and Ward are nationally known auditing educators. The financial accounting faculty includes several leading educators and researchers. 836 US Taxation of Multinational Transactions Graduates are in high demand for taxation specialist positions. Finance is the student's typical second area of study. The taxation faculty, Professors Dilley, Outslay, and Weber are well known for their instruction, both in the above courses and in professional education for practitioners.