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COURSES

If you like variety in your courses, our accounting courses will expose you to a wide spectrum of financial concepts and business practices - from a small lawn care business to a high technology manufacturing concern. Courses include:

ACCT 101 - Financial Accounting
Here you will learn to develop and interpret the financial information required by investors and creditors of a corporation. It is a required course for all Business Administration majors.

ACCT 102 - Managerial Accounting
In this course you will develop the skills needed to provide management with the information required for corporate decision making.

ACCT 103 - Computerized Accounting
This course introduces students to using a small business computerized accounting system.

ACCT 201 - Intermediate Accounting
This course refines the skills you learned in Accounting 101 for more complex situations.

ACCT 202 - Cost Accounting
In this course you will refine your skills learned in Accounting 102. You will be exposed to developing budgets, and doing cost analysis.

ACCT 11 - Payroll Accounting
This area of accounting, triggered by new laws and court cases, becomes more complex each year.

ACCT 99 - Bookkeeping Principles and Practices
This is a basic course in financial recordkeeping using the double-entry accounting system. It can provide you with the basic bookkeeping skills for work or give you a good background in an accounting system before you take Accounting 101 - Financial Accounting.

ACCT 190 - Accounting Systems Design and Applications
Explore different kinds of accounting systems from manual to computerized. Design your own system.

ACCT 204 - Accounting for Governmental and Not-For-Profit Entities
Learn how cities, counties, school districts, health care agencies develop their budgets and the accounting for them. This is one of the fastest growing areas of accounting.

ACCT 101 and 102 are offered every semester including summers. The other courses are offered at different semesters during the school year.

Check the current class schedule for course availability.