Accounting, Associate in Applied Science (ACCT)
Effective: Fall 2016
The career program in Accounting prepares students for various entry-level positions in the field of accounting. It is strongly recommended that students who plan to pursue further studies at a four-year institution immediately after graduation to major in Accounting take the Business Administration with the Accounting Concentration program.
Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to:
- Perform all steps in the accounting cycle for business entities.
- Analyze financial statements, recognize potential problem areas and suggest appropriate actions to alleviate or eliminate problems.
- Prepare a federal income tax return and other tax forms for representative individuals including the person who is operating the business as a single proprietorship.
- Record representative cost accounting transactions and subsequently reflect the effect of these transactions in appropriate financial statements.
- Recognize special needs of business.
- Prepare various operating budgets leading to the preparation of a master budget.
- Prepare variance reports.
- Demonstrate a knowledge of capital budgeting.
- Discuss the importance of ethical behavior in business operations.
- Demonstrate efficient utilization of appropriate accounting software.
- Apply basic economic principles in the business decision-making process.
- Describe the contemporary legal environment in business.
First Semester | Hours | |
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ENG 100 | English Composition I | 3 |
BUS 104 | Mathematics for Business | 3 |
BUS 100 | Introduction to Business | 3 |
ACC 111 | Financial Accounting | 3 |
CS 100 | Introduction to Information Technology | 3 |
Hours | 15 | |
Second Semester | ||
ENG 112 | English Composition II: Writing About Literature | 3 |
ACC 112 | Managerial Accounting | 3 |
ACC 115 | Computerized Accounting | 4 |
BUS/DPR Elective | 3 | |
Any Diversity and Social Justice designated Social Science course | 3 | |
Hours | 16 | |
Third Semester | ||
ACC 201 | Introduction to Cost Accounting | 3 |
BUS 130 | Business Communication | 3 |
ACC 202 or ACC 210 | Introduction to Tax Accounting or Federal Income Tax Accounting | 3 |
Any Scientific Inquiry designated Science course | 4 | |
Social Science Elective | 3 | |
Hours | 16 | |
Fourth Semester | ||
BUS 243 | Legal Environment of Business | 3 |
ECO 210 or ECO 220 | Macroeconomic Principles or Microeconomic Principles | 3 |
Humanities Elective | 3 | |
BUS/DPR Elective | 3 | |
Open Elective | 3 | |
Hours | 15 | |
Total Hours | 62 |
Notes
BUS/DPR Electives
Code | Title | Hours |
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CS 111 | Computer Applications | 3 |
CS 113 | Database Management Systems | 3 |
BUS 210 | Principles of Management | 3 |
BUS 211 | 3 | |
BUS 214 | Organizational Behavior | 3 |
BUS 215 | Human Resource Management | 3 |
BUS 220 | Elementary Statistics | 3 |
BUS 230 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
BUS 231 | Principles of Advertising | 3 |
BUS 232 | Principles of Finance | 3 |
Diversity and Social Justice designated courses.
Scientific Inquiry designated courses.
Humanities Elective - Career Program
This list does not indicate College Academic Learning Goal designation. Refer to your program curriculum for more information.
For career programs:
Code | Title | Hours |
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Courses listed under subject areas: | ||
ARB 101 | (or above) | 3 |
ART 100 | Art and Child Development (or above) | 3 |
COMM 100 | Interpersonal Communication (or above) | 3 |
DRA 100 | Introduction to Theatre (or above) | 3 |
ENG 112 | English Composition II: Writing About Literature (or above) | 3 |
FRE 101 | Elementary French I (or above) | 3 |
GER 101 | (or above) | 3 |
HUM 100 | Introduction to Visual Arts (or above) | 3 |
ITA 101 | (or above) | 3 |
MUS 101 | Fundamentals of Music (or above) | 3 |
PHI 100 | Introduction to Philosophy (or above) | 3 |
SPA 101 | Elementary Spanish I (or above) | 3 |
Social Science Elective - Career Programs
This list does not indicate College Academic Learning Goal designation. Refer to your program curriculum for more information.
All ADJ, ECE, ECO, EDU, HIS, INT, POL, PSY, SOC, SWO courses.
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