Review Assessment Report

Part 1: Contact & Program Identification

Report Year and Contact Information
Academic Year	Modified By	Date Modified
2022-2023	[email protected]	2023-10-10T19:15:49.621Z

School	Name of Program	Courses
BIT	Certified Public Acct Prep Certificate	ACCT 2120,ACCT 2130,ACCT 2320,ACCT 2350,ACCT 2520,BLAW 2110

Part 2: Program Summary

Provide a high level review of the program to include highlights, successes, challenges, significant changes, and significant resources needed to support the program
Decrease in both graduate awards and declared majors for the Certified Public Acct Prep Certificate for the 2022/2023 academic year in comparison to the prior year.

Part 3: Data Review

	2020-2021	2021-2022	2022-2023
Annual number of graduate awards is greater than 10	11	5	4
Number of declared majors	48	37	22
Average Class Size	18.2	14.2	15
Annual Average Class withdrawal rate is 30% or below (SAGE 35%)	8%	12%	10%
Annual C-Pass rate for coursework is 60% or above	80%	76%	77%
Average class fill rate at 60% or above capacity within a term or over a year	65%	52%	55%
Graduate Transfer to 4-year Schools	27%	n/a	n/a
Full-time Faculty Coverage by Section	82%	76%	30%

Summarize how your program met or did not meet the target measures based on the data above
There has been slight increase in the average class fill rate since the prior academic year. As a post degree certificate, convincing students who may have just received their Bachelor’s degree to enroll in school again while prices are rising everywhere may have been a factor as to why there has been a decline in the number of graduate awards and the number of declared majors. As reported in the prior year SAAC report, a recent article in a CPA publication (https://www.cpaarmy.com/number-of-people-sitting-for-the-cpa-exam-plummets/) states that there had been an almost 20% decrease in the number of people sitting for the CPA exam. According to the article, "the trend can even be seen in the number of students enrolled in accounting at university. Starting in 2016, there has been a downward trend. Worse still, it is starting to accelerate".

Summarize how your program met or did not meet the target measures based on the data above

There has been slight increase in the average class fill rate since the prior academic year. As a post degree certificate, convincing students who may have just received their Bachelor’s degree to enroll in school again while prices are rising everywhere may have been a factor as to why there has been a decline in the number of graduate awards and the number of declared majors. As reported in the prior year SAAC report, a recent article in a CPA publication (https://www.cpaarmy.com/number-of-people-sitting-for-the-cpa-exam-plummets/) states that there had been an almost 20% decrease in the number of people sitting for the CPA exam. According to the article, "the trend can even be seen in the number of students enrolled in accounting at university. Starting in 2016, there has been a downward trend. Worse still, it is starting to accelerate".

Part 4: Program Learning Outcome Analysis

Learning Outcome	Population or Course(s) Assessed	Description	Summary of Assessment Results
1. Identify, analyze and record business transactions in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.	Acct 2125, Intermediate Accounting I	Final Exam	Target: 75% of students will score 75% or higher on the Acct 2125 common final exam. Results: Target not met. 53.33% of students scored 75% or higher on the Acct 2125 common final exam. The average grade on the common final exam was 70.87%.
2. Select and apply appropriate accounting concepts for use in business decision making.	Acct 2130, Intermediate Accounting II	Paper	Target: 75% of students will score 75% or higher on the Acct 2130, Common Writing Assignment. Result: Target not met. 50% of students scored 75% or higher on the Common Writing Assignment. Average grade on the writing assignment was 77.79%.
3. Identify, research and evaluate business tax issues.	Acct 2350, Tax II	Paper	Target: 75% of students will score 75% or higher on the Tax Research Case Assignment. Result: Target met. 100% of student scored 75% or higher on the Tax Research Case Assignment. Average grade on this assignment was 99.57%.
4. Evaluate accounting/auditing issues and their impact on the accounting environment and disclosure requirements.	Acct 2520, Auditing	Paper	Target: 75% of students will score 75% or higher on the Common Writing Assignment. Result: Target met. 82.35% of student scored 75% or higher on the Common Writing Assignment. Average grade on this assignment was 85%.

Interpretation of Assessment findings
With the first learning outcome not being met for the 2nd AY in a row, the concern among the Accounting faculty has increased and the Acct 2125 course team are meeting to discuss other reasons besides inconsistent grading (as was addressed last year) for this continued decline in student success. Also, this SAAC reports will be presented at the Accounting program meeting in October to engage all Accounting faculty in this discussion as to possible reasons for this decline. For the Common Writing Assignment for Learning Objective 2, even though the target was not met, the accounting faculty are going to gather another year of data and see if this trend continues.

Interpretation of Assessment findings

With the first learning outcome not being met for the 2nd AY in a row, the concern among the Accounting faculty has increased and the Acct 2125 course team are meeting to discuss other reasons besides inconsistent grading (as was addressed last year) for this continued decline in student success. Also, this SAAC reports will be presented at the Accounting program meeting in October to engage all Accounting faculty in this discussion as to possible reasons for this decline. For the Common Writing Assignment for Learning Objective 2, even though the target was not met, the accounting faculty are going to gather another year of data and see if this trend continues.

Part 5: Additional Action Plan in Support of Student Learning (If Appropriate)

Upcoming Year	Changes Planned for the upcoming year	Data Motivating this change
2022-2023
2022-2023
2022-2023

Please select all of the following that characterize the types of changes described in the above action plan

Back