2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Tax and Compliance and Planning

This certificate is designed for professionals seeking expertise in tax compliance and planning to complete the CPA exam discipline and advance their career.

The Accounting: Tax Compliance & Planning Graduate Certificate is a four-course (12-credit) program covering in-depth topics on taxation and compliance. With a faculty of seasoned professionals and a curriculum tailored to meet the industry's evolving demands, Sacred Heart University ensures that graduates emerge with key practical taxation and planning knowledge and skills they will find when they sit for the CPA exam and in their accounting careers.

Students who complete this certificate program and are admitted into Sacred Heart University’s Master of Science in Accounting (MSA) program can use the certificate coursework towards their degree requirements.

Degree Requirements

Required Prerequisite Courses

  • Financial Accounting (3 credits)
  • Managerial Accounting (3 credits)
  • 2 Intermediate Accounting courses (6 credits)
  • Auditing (3 credits)
  • Federal Taxes (3 credits)

Requirements List

MSA 621Federal Taxation

3

MSA 622Individual Compliance and Planning

3

MSA 623Entity Compliance and Planning

3

MSA 625Tax Research

3