ACC-700 is the culminating experience for the M.S. in Accounting program. Rather than introducing new concepts, its aim is assessing students' ability to synthesize and integrate the knowledge and skills developed throughout their coursework by building a comprehensive, professional portfolio.
A portfolio, not a single project
ACC-700 requires developing a comprehensive professional portfolio representative of a student's growth across the program, built from three distinct artifacts: financial statements and analysis, a sample audit program, and a tax memo — each drawing on a different major thread of the program's coursework.
Prerequisites reflecting the full program
The course's prerequisites — ACC-675, ACC-690, TAX-655, and completion of 30 credits — reflect that the capstone is genuinely the program's final step, assuming students have already built the reporting, auditing, and tax competencies the portfolio artifacts draw on.
Key topics in ACC700
- Building a comprehensive professional portfolio
- Financial statements and analysis artifact
- Sample audit program artifact
- Tax memo artifact
- Synthesizing program-wide accounting competencies
- Demonstrating growth across the M.S. in Accounting program
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Worked example: three artifacts, one coherent portfolio
- Financial statements and analysis: Demonstrates financial reporting competency built across ACC-610/620/630
- Sample audit program: Demonstrates auditing competency built in ACC-675/690
- Tax memo: Demonstrates tax research and application competency built in TAX-655
- Lesson: ACC-700's three-artifact structure exists specifically to make a student demonstrate breadth across the full accounting program, not depth in just one area
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Frequently asked questions
SNHU designed the capstone around three distinct artifacts — financial statements and analysis, a sample audit program, and a tax memo — specifically because the M.S. in Accounting program itself develops competency across these three major areas, and a single project could easily demonstrate strength in just one of them while leaving the others unverified. Building all three artifacts forces genuine breadth: a student has to show they can still perform financial reporting, auditing, and tax work at the standard the program expects, not just whichever area they found most comfortable.
ACC-700's stated purpose is assessing whether students can synthesize and integrate what they've already learned, not teaching new material — its real work is demonstrating that the reporting, auditing, and tax competencies built separately across ACC-610 through TAX-655 can be brought together into one coherent professional portfolio. This is why the prerequisites require completing ACC-675, ACC-690, TAX-655, and 30 program credits first: the capstone assumes the underlying knowledge is already in place and tests the different, harder skill of integrating it into a professional-quality deliverable.