Graduate minors and certificates

Offered jointly through the Fisher School of Accounting and the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, this minor supplements MS in Information Systems and Operations Management coursework with the following courses focused on auditing.

Specific courses and total credits required may vary depending on a student’s accounting background. For example, students who have completed the Bachelor of Science in Accounting program at UF will require fewer credits.

Students interested in the Auditing Minor must call or stop by the Fisher School of Accounting to schedule an appointment with the Director of Degree Programs to complete an application. Note that because some courses are only offered once per year, planning ahead is critical to completing the minor before graduation.

Required Courses (8 credits)

ACG 5005 Financial Accounting (2 credits)
Introduction for prospective managers. Primary emphasis on financial reporting and analysis.
Prereq: MS-ISOM student
Availability: Fall, Module 1 and Spring, Module 3

ACG 5075 Managerial Accounting (2 credits)
Introduction for prospective managers. Primary emphasis on management control systems.
Prereq: MS-ISOM student, ACG 5005 with a “C” or better
Availability: Fall, Module 2 and Spring, Module 4

ACG 5637 Auditing 1 (2 credits)
Concepts and theory underlying the audit of third-party assertions. Coverage includes the audit environment, risk assessment, evidential search and evaluation, internal controls, audit programs, and audit reporting.
Prereq: MS-ISOM student pursuing the Auditing Minor, ACG 5075 with a “C” or better
Availability: Fall, Module 1 and Spring, Module 3

ACG 5647 Auditing 2 (2 credits)
The second of a two-course sequence. Applies the concepts and theory of auditing to gain assurance about key business processes and financial statement assertions. Coverage includes: audit sampling, revenue process, acquisition process, human resource management process, inventory management, resource management processes, completion activities, audit reports and subsequent events.
Prereq: MS-ISOM student pursuing the Auditing Minor, ACG 5647 with a “C” or better
Availability: Fall, Module 2 and Spring, Module 4

Required Modules – Select Two (for a total of 4 credits):

ACG 6635 Issues in Audit Practice (2 credits)
This course provides an in-depth discussion of the fundamental concepts underlying audit practice, including an introduction to current topics in auditing, advanced audit methods and trends in auditing practice.
Prereq: MS-ISOM student pursuing the Auditing Minor, ACG 5647 with a “C” or better
Availability: Fall or Spring. Semester varies, but is only taught once per academic year.

ACG 6685 Forensic Accounting (2 credits)
Analysis of contemporary forensic and investigative accounting. Topics include: fraud auditing, litigation support, valuation, cybercrime and other key forensic topics.
Prereq: MS-ISOM student pursuing the Auditing Minor, ACG 5647 with a “C” or better
Availability: Fall or Spring. Semester varies, but is only taught once per academic year.

ACG 6697 Information Systems Assurance (2 credits)
This course introduces the concepts of risk, control, and assurance in environments with advanced information technology. The course also covers technology-based audit tools and techniques.
Prereq: MS-ISOM student pursuing the Auditing Minor, ACG 5647 with a “C” or better
Availability: Fall or Spring. Semester varies, but is only taught once per academic year.

For advising or questions related to the Auditing Minor, students should visit the Fisher School of Accounting in 210 Gerson Hall.

Master’s students (6 credits)

Required courses:

• ENT 6006 or ENT 6008
• (2) ENT-based courses in the course catalog

Curriculum for Ph.D. students (12 credits)

Required courses:

• ENT 6006 or ENT 6008
• (5) ENT-based courses in the course catalog

Contact Jamie Kraft via email if interested in pursuing this minor.

The minor is geared toward students who are interested in careers in management consultancy, business analysis, or data analytics.

Interested students should fill out the application form to register for the courses needed to obtain the minor. They are required to confirm their plan of study with both their advisor in their major department, as well as an MS in Information Systems and Operations Management advisor. 

For each module, the student will be able to register for minor courses during regular course registration on a space-available basis. All prerequisites must be met prior to enrollment in a course. Note that this minor cannot be completed in one semester due to the nature of the prerequisite requirements.

Students completing the minor must confirm with their advisor prior to the Graduate School’s “midpoint of term” deadline during their last semester. Failure to apply for the minor before this deadline will preclude a student from receiving the minor even if they have completed all course requirements.

Core required courses (6 credits)

ISM 6128 Advanced Business Systems Design and Development I (2 credits)
Object-oriented analysis and model specification for business software systems. Articulation of key requirements (data, processes, physical components, deployment) using logical modeling methodologies.

Prereq: None
Availability: Fall and Spring, Modules 1 and 3

ISM 6215 Business Database Systems I (2 credits)
Fundamentals of data storage and retrieval models for business applications. Data modeling and database design principles. Theoretical foundations and exercises are presented for relational data models and SQL.
Prereq: “C” grade or better in ISM 6128

Availability: Fall and Spring, Modules 1 and 3

ISM 6222 Business Telecom Strategy and Applications I (2 credits)
This course covers the fundamental principles and practices of network and data security. We will study core security concepts and review existing security architectures and systems.

Prereq: None
Availability: Fall and Spring, Modules 1 and 3

Elective courses (4 credits)

Choose two from the following list:

ISM 6129 Advanced Business Systems Design and Development II (2 credits)
Continuation of ISM 6128. Focus on object-oriented design of systems. How to translate business requirements into specific tasks and component requirements.
Prereq: “C” grade or better in ISM 6128
Availability: Fall and Spring, Modules 2 and 4

QMB 6358 Statistics
Data-application techniques for managerial problems — specifically difficulties that can arise in applying the techniques and interpreting results. Experience using computerized procedures; may require a substantial amount of case analysis.
Prereq: No Prereq

Availability: Fall and Spring, Modules 2 and 4

ISM 6216 Database II
Continuation of ISM 6215. Focuses on implementation and programming issues.
Prereq: ISM6215

Availability: Fall and Spring, Modules 2 and 4

ISM 6405 Intro to Business Intelligence
Mastering emerging business intelligence technologies, such as data warehousing, online analytic processing, data mining and text mining.
Prereqs: ISM 6215 and QMB 6358

Availability: Fall and Spring, Modules 1 and 3

ISM 6562 Data Visualization
Understand the key data visualization principles and techniques and apply them to real-world business problems. Critically evaluate the design and presentation of complex data or concepts. Design innovative static and interactive visualizations to effectively present information and enable data exploration.
Prereq: ISM 6215

Availability: Fall and Spring, Modules 2 and 4

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Director, Academic Advising
Hough Hall 204
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Tracie Cohens
Academic Advisor
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Jesse Angel Oliva
Academic Advisor II
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Students pursuing a master’s degree must complete six credit hours to obtain the Real Estate Minor. Students pursuing a Ph.D. outside of the business school must complete 12 credit hours to obtain the minor.

A real estate faculty member will need to be added to the student’s graduate committee as his or her minor representative.

To earn the minor, students must:

1. Fill out the graduate request form in order to request a professor from the department to be your “minor representative.”
2. Once you receive a confirmation email of your “minor representative,” then ask your advisor to add the assigned faculty member and the Real Estate Minor to your supervisory committee form.

See the tables below, and then find the section numbers for the courses you need on the Grad Elective Graduate Course Schedule. If you need registration assistance after Priority Registration has begun for the term, verify that you have no registration holds in ONE.UF, and then email your UFID and the section numbers of the Real Estate courses you need added.

Complete the following course:

Course	Title	Credit	Module	Prerequisite
REE 6045	Introduction to Real Estate	2	Summer B, Mods 1 & 3

Earn at least four credits (two courses) from the following list:

Course	Title	Credit	Module(s)	Prerequisites
REE 6395	Real Estate Private Equity	2	Mods 2 & 4	REE 6045
REE 6206	Primary Mortgage Markets & Institutions	2	Mod 2	REE 6045, possibly as a co-requisite
REE 6105	Real Estate Appraisal	2	Mod 2	REE 6045; co-requisite REE 6395
REE 6208	Secondary Mortgage Markets and Securitization	2	Mod 3	REE 6045 & 6395
REE 6315	Real Estate Market and Transaction Analysis	2	Mod 1	REE 6045, possibly as a co-requisite
REE 6930	Special Topics – Contemporary Issues in	2	Mod 4	REE 6045

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Hough Hall 206
Associate Director of Admission & Student Services
352-273-0310
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The Certificate in Tourism and Hospitality Business Management is jointly offered by the Warrington College of Business and the Eric Friedheim Tourism Institute. Available to current UF graduate degree-seeking students.

The content of the courses centrally focuses on developing the students’ managerial skill set, as opposed to “back of the house” hospitality operational skills.

Certificate application instructions

1. Submit the Certificate Application (this lets us know that you plan to pursue the certificate). Go to the UF Admissions website. Select the “For currently enrolled UF students, apply here” option.

• Intended Term: Select intended term
• Certificate Level: Graduate
• College: Business (UNBUS)
• Major: Business Administration Grad Cert (BUS_GCT)
• Concentration: Tourism & Hospitality Bus Mgt (BUS_GCT05)

2. Apply to Certify Your Certificate on ONE.UF in your graduating term. To receive the certificate, you must:
   • Apply for the certificate in ONE.UF by the UF degree application deadline (in your graduating term).
     • Go to ONE.UF.
     • On the left-hand menu, select My Record, then select Certificate/Degree Application.
   • Meet the Criteria for Completion of a Graduate Certificate.
     • Consistent with longstanding Graduate Council policy, the only passing grades for students in a Graduate Certificate program are A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C and S.
     • All coursework used for the Graduate Certificate must meet a minimum overall 3.0 GPA (truncated).
     • Credits earned at another institution may not be used to meet the requirements of a UF Graduate Certificate.
     • Coursework and credits used for a UF Graduate Certificate may also be used to fulfill some requirements for a UF graduate degree, subject to existing Graduate School policy and with the approval of the academic unit offering the graduate degree program. In general, this criterion would be met by the prior inclusion of the graduate certificate coursework in the approved plan of study for the graduate degree.
     • Graduate Certificates may include courses that are a part of an academic program or courses created specifically for the Certificate.
     • Specified courses may be identified as required courses for more than one Graduate Certificate. In that circumstance, the credit hours associated with such a course may contribute to only one of the Graduate Certificates. Additional graduate-level coursework, approved by the academic unit, will have to be completed to meet the credit hour requirement of the second or subsequent certificate.
     • Coursework and credits used to satisfy the requirements for a Graduate Certificate may not be used to meet the requirements of a minor.
     • If you are currently enrolled in a graduate degree program, you will not be admitted to a Graduate Certificate program that has the same name as the major, concentration, or minor specified as part of your graduate degree program.

Note: LEI/HFT/HGM courses will not count toward your major (business) GPA but will count toward your cumulative GPA.

To earn this certificate, students must take a total of 10 credits (5 courses) over the Fall and Spring terms:

• 6 credits – Tourism and Hospitality Courses (3 courses)
• 4 credits – Approved Business Certificate Electives (2 courses)

Required Courses

Take three or four (if four are taken, it reduces the number of business electives you will take to one):

HMG 6566 / LEI 6931 Tourism and Hospitality Business Perspectives (Fall Module 1)
This course is designed as an introductory, generalist subject to provide students with a broad understanding of the tourism and hospitality industry, sectors, businesses and their roles and impacts in the wider economic and social environment.

HMG 6296 / LEI 6931 Strategic Management in Hospitality Business (Fall Module 2)
This course assesses the nature of hospitality products and addresses the unique challenges hospitality professionals face in managing their firms.

HMG 6747 Marketing in Hospitality/Tourism (Spring Module 3)
This course will provide an overview of marketing concepts and theories and how they apply in the tourism and hospitality industry.

HMG 6466 Revenue Management in Hospitality Business (Spring Module 4)
This course is designed to provide the students with an applied understanding of the financial strategies and tactics used in hospitality revenue management.

Elective Courses

Choose one or two:

• BUL 5811 Law, Ethics, and Organizations
• BUL 6841 Employment Law
• ENT 6930 Corporate Entrepreneurship
• MAN 5246 Organizational Behavior
• MAN 5502 Production & Operations Management
• MAN 6331 Compensation in Organizations
• MAN 6366 Organizational Staffing
• MAN 6447 Art and Science of Negotiation
• MAN 6635 International Aspects of Human Resource Management
• MAN 6930 Conflict Management and Negotiation
• MAN 6930 Cyber & AI Governance in Business
• MAN 6930 Strategy/Disruption Technology
• MAR 6456 Business-To-Business Marketing (prereq: MAR 5806 or MAR 4803)
• MAR 6508 Customer Analysis (prereq: MAR 5806 or MAR 4803; and QMB 6358; and ISM 6413 or QMB 3302)
• MAR 6667 Marketing Analytics Methods (prereq: MAR 5806 or MAR 4803; and QMB 6358)
• MAR 6668 Marketing Analytics 1 (prereq: MAR 5806 or MAR 4803; and QMB 6358; and ISM 6413 or QMB 3302)
• MAR 6669 Marketing Analytics 2 (prereq: MAR 5806 or MAR 4803; and QMB 6358; and ISM 6413 or QMB 3302)
• MAR 6722 Web-Based Marketing (prereq: MAR 5806 or MAR 4803; and QMB 6358)
• MAR 6818 Advanced Marketing Management (prereq: MAR 5806 or MAR 4803)
• MAR 6833 Product Development and Management (prereq: MAR 5806 or MAR 4803)
• MAR 6861 Customer Relationship Management (prereq: MAR 5806 or MAR 4803; AND QMB 6358)
• REE 6045 Introduction to Real Estate
• REE 6395 Investment Property Analysis (prereq: FIN 5439 or REE 6045)
• REE 6105 Real Estate Appraisal (prereq: REE 6045 or REE 6395)
• REE 6208 Secondary Mortgage Markets and Securitization (prereq: FIN 5439, REE 6045, or REE 6206)

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