accounting 1
Prerequisite: Junior standing; 3.0 G.P.A.; C or better in all math classes
Full Year
Accounting I is a skill level course that is of value to all students pursuing a strong background in business, marketing, or management. This course includes planned learning experiences that develop initial and basic skills used in systematically computing, classifying, recording, verifying, and maintaining numerical data involved in financial and product control records including the paying and receiving of money. Instruction includes information on keeping financial records, summarizing them for convenient interpretation, and analyzing them to provide assistance to management for decision making. Accounting computer applications are integrated throughout the course where applicable. In addition to stressing basic fundamentals and terminology of accounting, instruction provides initial understanding of the preparation of budgets and financial reports, operation of related business machines and equipment, and career opportunities in the accounting field. Processing employee benefits may also be included. Practice sets with business papers may be used to emphasize actual business records management.
Full Year
Accounting I is a skill level course that is of value to all students pursuing a strong background in business, marketing, or management. This course includes planned learning experiences that develop initial and basic skills used in systematically computing, classifying, recording, verifying, and maintaining numerical data involved in financial and product control records including the paying and receiving of money. Instruction includes information on keeping financial records, summarizing them for convenient interpretation, and analyzing them to provide assistance to management for decision making. Accounting computer applications are integrated throughout the course where applicable. In addition to stressing basic fundamentals and terminology of accounting, instruction provides initial understanding of the preparation of budgets and financial reports, operation of related business machines and equipment, and career opportunities in the accounting field. Processing employee benefits may also be included. Practice sets with business papers may be used to emphasize actual business records management.