Hiring Five-Year Master of Accountancy Graduates

In addition to producing outstanding undergraduates who earn BBA is accounting, the School of Business also offers Master of Accountancy degrees in our highly regarded Five-Year Professional Accounting Program. We developed the program with the help of major industrial and professional service firms to meet the higher standards now required for CPA certification. Nearly 100 percent of accounting students are placed at graduation.  That’s not surprising, since our Accounting Department is a “primary recruiting school” for the world’s four largest public accounting firms.

There are many external measures of the success of our accounting program.

• Accounting Professor Larry Rittenberg was named one of the nation’s 100 most influential people in finance. He chairs the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).  (June 2005, Treasury and Risk Management Magazine).
• Accounting students won the PricewaterhouseCoopers xTax competition, and finished second in the Deloitte Foundation National Case Study Seminar.  (2005)
• The School of Business was ranked third among all schools in the country in percentage of undergraduate accounting students passing the CPA Examination. (From 1992 to 2001)
• A UW-Madison accounting graduate had the third highest score in the nation on the Uniform CPA Examination. Kelly Mogensen earned the Elijah Watt Sells Bronze medal for finishing third nationally among people who took the exam. (2002)