This document presents the standards and criteria for institutions to demonstrate compliance with the accreditation standards and criteria necessary to obtain separate accreditation of the accounting unit.

This letter and application form are used by the member to enter candidacy when seeking accreditation of the business unit and separate accreditation of accounting concurrent with accreditation of the business unit. It is on pages 29 and 30 in the process book. It is provided here in a Word format for ease of placement on letterhead of the institution.

This is the most current Quality Assurance (QA) Report template. The purpose of the QA Report is to keep ACBSP apprised of the institutional activities and changes that take place so a determination can be made that the accounting unit remains in compliance with ACBSP accreditation standards. Any activity or change within the institution and/or the accounting unit that alters the status of the accounting faculty, the accounting curriculum, resources in support of the accounting unit or other ACBSP accreditation standards must be reported. The accounting unit must inform ACBSP how they routinely provide reliable information to the public on their performance, including student achievement, in their Quality Assurance Reports. 

Quality Assurance (QA) Reports are due February 27th or September 30th. Each accounting program was assigned one of these reporting cycles in your letter of accreditation from ACBSP.  

Submit your completed Quality Assurance Report as an email attachment to reports@acbsp.org.

This document provides detailed budgeting and cost information for the accreditation process from start to finish for those that are pursuing separate accreditation of the accounting unit concurrent with accreditation of the business unit. The document provides an example for budgeting.

This publication describes the separate accounting accreditation process as concurrent when it takes place with the reaffirmation of accreditation of business programs and not concurrent when it takes place prior to reaffirmation. Separate accreditation in accounting is available only for institutions that have achieved accreditation of business programs.

The most typical pursuit of separate accreditation of the accounting program will be as part of the initial accreditation or reaffirmation process. Separate accreditation in accounting is available only for institutions that have achieved accreditation of the business unit or as part of the initial accreditation process. However, some business units that currently have accreditation based on their current business unit accreditation may wish to use a process not concurrent and is described in the Maintaining Accreditation process book. This manual is the same manual used for obtaining accreditation of the business unit. Nearly all of the benefits that exist for business accreditation apply to accreditation of the accounting program.