Educational Goals

Our graduate program has the following four main goals.

1. Advanced Specialized Education for Business

Taking advantage of the special characteristics of a professional graduate program, we provide business education and advanced specialized instruction using a system that offers a small-class environment. We also provide basic education on accounting that that has been enriched by the inclusions of cutting-edge approaches on financial accounting, administrative accounting, and auditing. In addition, we emphasize education that not only provides straightforward knowledge about the field, but also develops basic business and specialized abilities, such as the capability to make practical decisions and judgments based on business ethics. By providing knowledge from a wide array of fields and not limiting our approach to simply that of accounting, we are able to develop in our students the capacity for insights that are grounded in a balanced view of economic society. In so doing, we cultivate specialists in accounting with the training that would allow them to take on leading roles in the business world.

2. An Education that Responds to International Standards

The Graduate School of Accounting also emphasizes the training of specialized accountants with the ability and technical knowledge to function at an international level and who are also able to cope with practical problems. Amid the globalization of business activities, accounting specialists with a cosmopolitan outlook are needed and, in response to this demand, the International Federation of Accountants has announced the International Professional Standards for Professional Accountants (IFAC). Based on those standards, it is expected that accountants acquire specialized knowledge about international accounting and auditing standards, that they understand international business practices, that they have communication and presentations skills, and that they have the training necessary to work with IT businesses. For our graduate program in accounting, we have prepared a high-level curriculum that exceeds these standards.

3. Developing Ethical Training

The manipulation of accounting figures and other unethical accounting incidents of the recent past have been the source of a societal distrust toward accounting and have also inflicted serious damage on economic society. In order to prevent such incidents, eliminate the distrust associated with accounting, and allow accounting to engage in its original function in the future, specialists in accounting, starting with professional accountants and including those in charge of the accounts and finances in organizations, will need to possess high ethical standards. In our graduate program, we train people who not only have the knowledge of ethical standards related to auditing and accounting, which they gained through examining case studies of unethical accounting incidents, they also possess in full the “accounting mind,” which is grounded in a refined ethical sensibility.

4. Implementing a Recurrent Educational Program

In recent years, the environment surrounding professional accountants has changed dramatically, and it has become necessary to engage in continuing education related to specialized knowledge throughout ones career. In our graduate program, one of our important educational goals is to offer a wide range of recurrent educational opportunities, first to professional accountants, but also to accounting specialists who work for companies, public institutions, and nonprofit organizations. To that end, in cooperation with the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants, we offer education that is in line with the continuing professional training system (CPE) for professional accountants. Along with this, we are also developing the most up-to-date technical education for professional accountants about accounting and related fields.

Majors	Degrees (Field of Specialization)
Accountancy	MBA