Find helpful accounting program resources and links below.
When you begin your path in our Accounting Program, you enter a tight learning community. Count on your peers, professors, staff and alumni to provide you with information and guidance. Pursuing a career in accounting requires ample knowledge of certification processes, including CPA, CMA and more. Please take the time to learn about certification and use the resources and people available to you. Contact us with any questions you have.
We put together the following accounting resource list with the corresponding links to the information.
Accounting Program Resources at the Jindal School
Academic Programs – Primary
The accounting area offers one bachelor’s, one master’s and one PhD program.
Academic Programs – Additional
The accounting area also offers certificates, capstone projects and accelerated pathways to adding more degrees.
CPA, Career and Tutoring
Learn more about the CPA exam and how the Jindal School prepares you for it, find out the certifications and accounting career resources available to you and see when and where you can get tutoring assistance with your accounting courses.
Faculty and Community Activity
Discover how accounting faculty are researching, publishing, speaking and engaging in the business community.
Accounting Blogs & News
How to Make the Most of your College Summers
After successfully completing the first year of college, students are faced with the task of deciding how to spend their time during the summer break. Read Patrick Sarman’s list of options to make your college summers productive!
Accounting Faculty Member Named a Best 40-Under-40 Professor by Poets & Quants
Business-school news site Poets & Quants has named an accounting faculty member at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, one of the Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors.
Creativity, Flexibility and Caring Help Accounting Professor Earn Awards
Technology know-how and mentoring, online community building and constant, responsive student engagement led to an Outstanding Accounting Educator of the Year Award for a veteran JSOM faculty member, the fourth to earn this honor.
Ankita’s Internship at KPMG in the Tax Department
Ankita Kapoor recently interned in the tax department at KPMG, an international audit, tax and advisory company, to see if it was right for her. Read along her experience to see if it was the right fit!
UT Dallas Wins Ethics Case Competition
A Jindal School junior in accounting and a School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences freshman in political science won the Eller Collegiate Ethics Case Competition recently. Their collaboration earned them each $500 and a trip to New York.
Welcome Back: Be Sure to Raise Your (Virtual) Hand
Welcome to fall semester, Jindal School students. You have many options to learn and many opportunities to shine. Whether in class in person or attending online, Senior Associate Dean Monica Powell encourages your participation.
Fraud Summit Audience Grows, Hears Keynotes by Embezzler and Two Investigators
The 14th annual UT Dallas Fraud Summit brought nearly 1,000 people to campus. They came to the Jindal School-hosted event for continuing education in internal auditing and to hear speakers who included top investigators and a reformed fraudster.
Scholarships Boost Accounting Students’ Balance Sheets
Accounting students headed toward careers as CPAs and auditors scored scholarships this fall from three of those professions’ top funding supporters. Recipients benefited from good grades, extracurricular activities and strong résumés.
2019 Scholarship Breakfast: Former Dallas Mayor Emphasizes Need for Education
Former Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings tied education to economic viability in a keynote conversation at the Jindal School’s major annual fundraiser, the Scholarship Breakfast. The event raised enough to provide scholarships for more than 40 students.
JSOM Senior Wins $5K Scholarship
JSOM senior Rachel McKenna won a $5,000 scholarship from the charitable arm of Ascend, a Pan-Asian professional organization. A leader in the UT Dallas Ascend chapter, McKenna will use the money to help fund her graduate studies in accounting.
Enthusiasm and Reverence a Way of Life for Accounting Graduate Student
Get to know dual-degree accounting and MBA grad student, HD Barot, in this special audio recorded interview!
Phi Beta Lambda Turns in Strong Performance at Texas State Leadership Conference
Based in the Naveen Jindal School of Management, the UT Dallas chapter of the student organization Phi Beta Lambda brought home 26 first-, second, and third-place awards from the Texas State Leadership Conference.
The Who, What, How and Why of Internal Controls
Who’s involved with the internal control system? EVERYONE. John Barden will tell you why.
Meet Assistant Professor Federico Siano
Dr. Federico Siano enters the Jindal School of Management as an assistant professor of accounting.
Tax vs. Audit: A Q&A with BS in Accounting Program Director John Barden
Struggling to choose between tax and audit? Want to learn more about each field of accounting? If you answered ‘Yes’ to either of these questions you should check out our interview with Professor John Barden, director of the BS in Accounting at JSOM.
The Whistleblower’s Word: An Interview with Richard Bowen
There’s much more to being a whistleblower than newspaper headlines and infamy. Read on to learn how Accounting Professor, Richard Bowen, became a whistleblower without even knowing it.
Introducing the CMA Review Course
The Jindal School introduces the first Certified Management Accountant (CMA) review course of its kind. Read more about the details of the course and how it can accelerate your career in accounting.
JSOM Internship Expo Creates Opportunities for Students and Employers
The Jindal School’s Undergraduate Internship Expo brought together 1,500 students and recruiters from more than 50 companies. The expo helped students practice networking skills, and it helped employers find students to fill internships.
A Message from Jindal School Dean Hasan Pirkul
Jindal School Dean Hasan Pirkul reaches out to students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters with an update on the state of the school as classes resume following spring break and during the coronavirus outbreak.
Breaking the Accountant Paradigm Part 2
Now that you’ve heard Professor Mary Beth Goodrich’s story, what’s yours? Submit your #JSOMfaces story by emailing jsomsocial@utdallas.edu.
Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in Accounting?
Bachelor’s Degree Program
The Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting prepares you for diverse career options. There is a wide range of high-demand paths to pursue. It is the only Jindal School program tailored for students who want to become Certified Public Accountants (CPAs).
BS in AccountingMaster’s Degree Programs
A Master’s in Accounting and Analytics Program that fits your needs. Choose between the Flex Program and complete the coursework at your own pace, or, the Cohort Program where you take all courses together with other students as a community.
MS in Accounting and Analytics Flex MS in Accounting and Analytics CohortPhD Concentration in Accounting
Our PhD Accounting program is designed for students seeking training in the most advanced issues in accounting, both theoretical and applied. Primarily intended for tenure-track positions in research-oriented universities.
PhD in Management Science, Accounting Concentration