Accounting Degree

Degree: Associate of Applied Science (A.A.S.)

Program Description:

If you possess organizational skills and enjoy being exact, accounting is a field that will interest you. If you like to learn theory and apply it in the real world and you enjoy working with computers, accounting is the place to do all three. Graduates with an associate degree in accounting are in demand as bookkeepers and accounting clerks in the areas of accounts receivable and accounts payable, and all businesses have to keep track of both.

As a program graduate, you will learn what it takes to succeed in the business world. Learn how to maintain a set of books for business-account classification, subsidiary record accounting, corporate accounting, cost accounting, payroll, computerized accounting, manual accounting, database and spreadsheet fundamentals, and word processing.

The program teaches you how to obtain a job, keep it, and succeed in that position.

Career Information and Occupational Outlook

Program Admission Requirements

Present official documentation of an earned high school diploma or official GED scores.
Be at least 16 years old.
Present appropriate test scores, or present an official college transcript documenting collegelevel English and mathematics with grades of "C" or better.
No provisional and/or special admission allowed in the program.

Curriculum Outline:

Credits required for graduation (102)

General Core Courses (30 Credit Hours)

Course	Title	Credit Hours
ENG 191	Composition and Rhetoric I	5
ECO 192	Microeconomics or
ECO 193	Macroeconomics or
SOC 191	Introduction to Sociology	5
ENG 195	Technical Communications or
SPC 191	Fundamentals of Speech	5
MAT 191	College Algebra	5
ENG 193	Composition and Rhetoric II or
HUM 191	Introduction to Humanities	5
PSY 191	Introductory Psychology	5

Occupational Courses (47 Credit Hours)

Course	Title	Credit Hours
SCT 100	Introduction to Microcomputers	3
ACC 101	Principles of Accounting I	6
ACC 102	Principles of Accounting II	6
ACC 103	Principles of Accounting III	6
ACC 104	Computerized Accounting	3
ACC 106	Accounting Spreadsheet Fundamentals or
BUS 202	Spreadsheet Fundamentals	3
ACC 151	Individual Tax Accounting	4
ACC 152	Payroll Accounting	4
BUS 101	Beginning Document Processing	5
BUS 108	Word Processing	7

Occupational Elective Courses (Select 25 hours from the following.)

Course	Title	Credit Hours
ACC 107	Full-time Internship	12
ACC 108	Half-time Internship	6
ACC 150	Cost Accounting	6
ACC 154	Personal Finance	5
ACC 155	Legal Environment of Business	5
ACC 156	Business Tax Accounting	4
ACC 157	Integrated Accounting Management Systems	6
ACC 158	Managerial Accounting	6
ACC 159	Accounting Simulations	5
ACC 160	Advanced Accounting Spreadsheet Applications	5
ACC 165	Capstone Review Course of Accounting Principles	6
BUS 105	Database Fundamentals	3
ECO 191	Principles of Economics	5
FIN 191	Introduction to Finance	5
MSD 100	Management Principles	5
MSD 102	Employment Law	5
	Elective	5

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