Accounting Basic
40-Week Day and 50-Week Evening Program
Diploma
64 Credit Hours
Program Objective
This diploma program provides students with accounting / bookkeeping concepts using hands-on instruction, software applications, and simulations. Students will learn the recording functions of the accounting process as well as analyze, classify, and summarize reports and financial information.
Career Opportunities
The Accounting Curriculum is designed with the career student in mind. The positions that a graduate of this program area can expect to attain are among the fastest growing occupations that exist in today’s employment world. Graduates of this program may expect to work as accounting clerks or as members of an accounting firm in many small to medium-sized businesses. Successful completion of this program enables the student to pursue the A.A.S. in an associates of applied science degree if desired.
Entrance Requirements
See Admission Policies.
Training Equipment
Students will use computers and academic support software and other learning resources as they become available.
Class Size
Classes range in size from 15 to 25 students, with the typical class consisting of 20 students.
| General Education Course Requirements |
Credit Hours |
| SPH 101 Speech |
4 |
| Physical and Natural Sciences |
|
| BIO 119 Environmental Biology |
4 |
| BIO 120 Environmental Biology Lab |
2 |
| Requirements |
|
| ACC 102 Accounting I |
4 |
| ACC 103 Accounting I Lab |
2 |
| ACC 104 Introduction to Business |
4 |
| ACC 105 Accounting II |
4 |
| ACC 105 Accounting II lab |
2 |
| ACC 107 Spreadsheets |
2 |
| ACC 108 Payroll |
4 |
| ACC 201 Accounting III |
4 |
| ACC 201 Accounting III lab |
2 |
| ACC 208 Income Tax |
4 |
| Support Requirements |
|
| ACC 109 Business Math |
4 |
| BUS 101 Keyboarding |
2 |
| BUS 102 Business Communications I |
4 |
| BUS 103 Word Processing/Document Formatting I |
2 |
| BUS 106 Business Communications II |
4 |
| BUS 200 Employment Preparation |
4 |
| CIS 104 Introduction to Computers and Information Systems |
2 |
SEE: ACCONTING (ADVANCED)
