Kaplan University

You can discover what you are capable of and will learn how to make best use of it, at the Kaplan University. Our locations in Nebraska and Iowa are built to help you achieve your goal of a rewarding and successful career. Our aim is to help you realize your goals by providing superior standard degree programs that fuse together theoretical, professional skills, and career-oriented training.

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Stretch Your Limits and Fulfill Your Potential

An MBA degree holds the possibility of increasing your managerial skills, income potential, and marketability. Receive this prestigious degree from Kaplan University in a minimum of 18 months* without having to quit your day job, and save time and gas by not having to drive to a college campus. Kaplan University allows you to study online and helps prepare you to pursue leadership positions in corporate settings.

Accelerate Your Career With an MBA

This advanced business degree is highly regarded for those who want to be leaders in the demanding new global economy. An MBA could help you reach a position of higher prestige and responsibility, and may open up many options for you in finance, banking, marketing, and more within corporations, governments, and nonprofits.

A Greater Degree of Professionalism

The goal of the Master of Business in Administration program is to help students pursue leadership positions in competitive business environments. The curriculum is designed to do this through a range of practical, resume-building projects that satisfy students’ intellectual curiosity as well as help them to build the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to make sound business and management decisions. The program emphasizes critical thinking, social responsibility, innovation, ethics in business and leadership to ensure well-rounded skills in a global environment. The use of current events and news to enhance course content ensures that real-world needs are reflected accurately.

You will be taught to:

• Create value in production and distribution of goods, services, and information throughout the supply chain
• Integrate business knowledge in order to take well-reasoned action in diverse situations
• Innovate to address business issues and opportunities in dynamic environments
• Generate a new business or establish new procedures within an existing business
• Demonstrate the leadership necessary to accomplish business goals and maximize organizational performance
• Evaluate the ethical and social implications of business decisions in a global context

Students can take a more focused approach to their studies by choosing to complete an optional specialization. To help develop your niche and build your area of focus, we offer multiple areas of specialization.

Associate of Applied Science in Accounting

In today's complex economy, high-quality accounting services are crucial for the success of every business. According to the U.S. government, accounting professionals can expect a job market that will increase faster than average through 2016 as more organizations and individuals need their assistance.

The focus of our program exceeds analyzing and interpreting numbers; it teaches you how to effectively communicate vital data, and network with those who serve in all capacities of a business.

This program instructs you in the use of accounting software, and allows you to gain familiarity with managing industry standard accounting data. You'll learn how decision-makers in the business world use both financial and non-financial accounting data to determine the best course of action.

Course content includes learning how to apply the principles of accounting, the correct procedures for processing payrolls, how to prepare financial statement, and how to prepared tax filings following federal guidelines and various state regulations.

Upon completion of the program, you will be prepared to begin your career as a professional in the bookkeeping or payroll field.

Bachelor of Science in Accounting

The best-run companies of today understand that skillful accounting plays as an important role in their success as does any other aspect of their business. They also realize that accountants can be effective in leading a company.

The Bachelor of Science in Accounting program at Kaplan University will prepare you for a rewarding entry-level accounting position by providing you with the necessary skills and technical know-how you will need to succeed. You are provided a foundation in subjects such as economics, finance and management.

How to improve your skill levels in communication, teamwork, and decision-making processes will also be learned by you. Our highly esteemed faculty will teach you a solid ethical foundation as well as guide you in practical experience.

As the economy grows globally, businesses will undoubtedly also grow in number and size. Increasingly, auditors and accountants will be needed to establish books, prepare tax forms, and provide management counseling.

With financial laws and regulations in flux, and tougher examination of company finances, knowledgeable accountants will experience faster-than-average career growth through 2016. Job opportunities await in public accounting firms, corporate accounting or tax departments, not-for-profit organizations, governmental agencies, and more.

Upon completion of the program, our students from the Bachelor of Science in Accounting program will be able to sit for the CPA or Certified Management Accountant (CMA) examinations. They will also find that opportunities for employment exist in public accounting firms, corporate accounting or tax departments, not-for-profit organizations, governmental agencies, and many more.

Bachelor of Science graduates in the field if Accounting are qualified to sit for the CPA or CMA exams. Government-nonprofit accountancy is just one of five specific concentrations within the accounting program including public accountancy, tax accountancy, managerial accountancy and auditing-forensic accountancy.

BS in Accounting/Public Accountancy: Learn to handle auditing, tax, and consulting for corporations, governments, nonprofit organizations, or individuals. Comparisons with financial accounting, cost classification, manufacturing of inventories and basic cost accounting terminology and principles are just a few of the subjects of focus.

BS in Accounting/Tax Accountancy: You will learn all about tax laws and how they affect different types of business entities, including partnerships and corporations. Study tax laws applicable to not-for-profit entities, estates, trusts and multi-jurisdictional issues. Primary focuses of the program include tax reporting, tax planning, and tax research skills.

BS in Accounting/Managerial Accountancy: Management accountants (also called cost, managerial, industrial, corporate, or private accountants) record and analyze financial information. This process includes strategic planning and budgeting, performance evaluation, and both cost and asset management. Management accountants must be skilled in financial reporting preparation, financial analyses, and cost accounting, just to name a few of the fields.

BS in Accounting/Auditing-Forensic Accountancy: You will learn to identify and prevent certain fraudulent acts that can be perpetrated against organizations and individuals. Combine your accounting and finance skills with law and investigative techniques, to judge whether or not an activity is illegal. Help the police or attorneys by appearing as expert witnesses in court.

BS in Accounting/Government-Nonprofit Accountancy: You will learn standard accounting principles and the various financial reporting techniques employed by myriad state and local governments Study the different aspects of accounting and financial reporting among government and non-profit organizations in the U.S. economy.

The Master of Business Administration program is dedicated to assisting students in the pursuit of leadership roles in the competitive world of business. The discipline is designed to address this throughout a portfolio of basic, resume-building projects that sate student's intellectual curiosity, and help them to compound the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to make practical business and management decisions. The program is designed to not only hone basic skills, but to develop leadership, innovative ideas, and corporate social responsibility within a global market. Using current events the curriculum stays up-to-date with the growing business world.

You will learn how to:

• Establish value while producing and distributing products, services, and information within the supply chain
• Utilize business skills to take appropriate action in a variety of situations
• Address business issues or create new procedures in an innovative way
• Establish a new business or update procedures in an existing business
• Demonstrate leadership skills as you achieve business goals and optimize the performance of an organization
• Analyze the impact of business decisions in a global framework

Entrepreneurship

• Develop skills invaluable in analyzing business opportunities, initiating new business ventures, and nurturing innovative thinking.
• Sharpen your skills in decision-making and problem-solving so you can discover the nuances and differences between managing a start-up versus growing a company.
• Deconstruct and analyze new theories and models being used in modern business.

Human Resources

In order to properly manage corporate human resource offices, you can pursue this education to do so. The course curriculum includes hiring practices, training, corporate policies, communications and executive leadership.

Courses include:

• Employment and Labor Law Training and Development
• Strategic Reward Systems
• Recruitment
• Selection.

What Are the Career Opportunities?

You will be able to manage an executive-level role in a medium to a large organization with an MBA degree. Graduates of this program may qualify for high-level employment opportunities in fields such as: finance, marketing, operations, management of information systems, or human resources. Generally, studies show that full-time professionals who obtained a master's degree have significantly higher salaries and have a better chance to be hired as compared to those who have a bachelor's degree.

Step confidently into the next phase of your career with the Bachelor of Science in Management program. This online program will enhance your marketability and increase your income potential in any job market.

Answering employers' calls for more competent technical workers, improving techniques in communication, and encouraging students to think critically is all highlighted in our state of the art curriculum. This degree program focuses on better, more efficient management practices and allows you to personalize your education by concentrating your studies in one of eight emphasis areas:

• General Management
• Health Care Management
• Marketing
• Human Resources Management
• Management of Information Systems
• Business Administration
• Accounting Management
• and Retail Management.

Human Resource Management Emphasis

You will be ready for human resource jobs in both private and public sectors. In today’s increasingly complex world of business, human resource managers must also adhere to pertinent labor laws and organizational policies. To be the best, a HR manager must understand all basic employment practices, personnel training and administration, and compensation and benefits. One you graduate from this program you will be able to obtain positions in corporate human resources departments, employment agencies and in government and labor organizations.

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