Career Pathway – Business Management, Marketing, and Technology
Accounting personnel compile and analyze business records and prepare financial reports, such as profit and loss statements, balance sheets, cost studies, and tax reports. The major opportunity fields are public, management, and government accounting.
This curriculum leads to an Associate in Applied Science and is designed for career entry and/or advancement. Students interested in a four-year accounting degree should fol-low the Business Administration curriculum.
Prerequisites
Strong mathematical and reading skills are recommended prior to attempting courses in this area. Students must possess the ability to analyze numbers and make logical decisions. Recommended high school units of study are shown at the end of this catalog.
General Education
The following courses provide general skills of speaking, writing, thinking, analyzing, cooperating, making choices and judgments, integrating, and creating that are required in many different problem-solving and task-ori-ented situations. Skills are also provided to enhance the student's global awareness and knowledge of healthy living.
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CREDITS |
| Communication 101, Foundations of Interpersonal Communication or
111, Business and Technical Communication
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3 |
| Creativity Elective° |
2-3 |
| Critical Thinking Elective° |
3-4 |
| Economics 201, Principles of Economics – MACRO |
3 |
| English 151, Freshman Composition |
3 |
| Psychology 201, Introduction to Psychology |
3 |
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17-19 |
° For options to fulfill the Creativity and Critical Thinking Electives see page 53 of the College Catalog.
Accounting Degreecode 203
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CREDITS |
| Accounting 101, General Accounting |
4 |
| Accounting 102, General Accounting |
4 |
| Accounting 205, Computerized Accounting |
4 |
| Accounting 211, Intermediate Accounting |
4 |
| Accounting 251, Cost Accounting |
4 |
| Accounting 252, Income Taxation |
4 |
| Business Administration 101, Introduction to Business |
3 |
| Business Administration 112, Business Statistics |
3 |
| Business Administration 201, Business Law |
3 |
| Business Administration 202, Business Law |
3 |
| Economics 202, Principles of Economics – MICRO |
3 |
Office Information Technology 160, Applications
Software |
3 |
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42 |
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ACCOUNTING ELECTIVES
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| Choose one or more courses from the following: |
CREDITS |
Business Administration 200A, Cooperative Education I
or 200B, Cooperative Education II
or 200C, Cooperative Education III
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3 |
| Business Administration 104, Business Correspondence |
3 |
| Business Administration 121, Principles of Advertising |
3 |
| Business Administration 131, Principles of Management |
3 |
| Business Administration 132, Human Resource Management |
3 |
| Business Administration 223, Developing an E-Commerce/E-Business Plan |
3 |
| Business Administration 251, Principles of Marketing |
3 |
The four-semester sequence of courses recommended for the full-time student is:
| Fall |
Spring |
Fall |
Spring |
| ACCO 101 |
ACCO 102 |
ACCO 211 |
ACCO 205 |
| BUAD 101 |
Accounting
Elective |
ACCO 251 |
ACCO 252 |
| ECON 201 |
BUAD 201 |
BUAD 202 |
| ENGL 151 |
BUAD 112 |
COMM 101
or 111
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Critical Thinking Elective |
| Creativity Elective |
ECON 202 |
| OIT 160 |
PSYC 201 |
Accounting Certificatescode 104
This curriculum leads to a certificate and focuses upon specialty courses for job entry and/or occupational upgrading. The courses are:
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CREDITS |
| Accounting 101, General Accounting |
4 |
| Accounting 102, General Accounting |
4 |
| Accounting 205, Computerized Accounting |
4 |
| Accounting 211, Intermediate Accounting |
4 |
| Accounting 251,Cost Accounting |
4 |
| Accounting 252, Income Taxation |
4 |
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