Accounting Certificate (ACCC)
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This is an overview of the program. The course sequencing is meant to serve as a guideline for your semester planning. Please note that the scheduling of courses, program sequencing and curriculum are subject to change.
This program will provide students with accounting skills necessary to obtain entry-level positions in business as an accounts payable clerk, accounts receivable clerk, billing and posting clerk, purchasing clerk or as a bookkeeper. Credits may be applied toward the A.A.S. degree in Accounting.
Upon successful completion of this program, graduates will be able to:
• describe and illustrate basic financial accounting concepts and principles.
• create and utilize management accounting information for decision-making purposes.
• demonstrate the accounting and reporting of equity in a business.
• apply accounting concepts and principles for preparing and analyzing financial statements and business operations.
• apply financial and cost accounting principles and procedures to a manufacturing business.
• demonstrate and integrate computer literacy within an accounting framework.
• recognize ethical problems in business.
• apply legal principles, particularly rules of contracts, to all business activities.