Accounting

This course is designed to give the student a fundamental understanding of accounting principles. It covers the accounting cycle, financial statements, internal controls, receivables, payables and payroll.

This course is designed to strengthen the student’s accounting ability. It covers accounting for a merchandising business, special journals, receivables, notes, inventories, and plant and intangible assets.

This course develops student skill in creating and maintaining businessoriented spreadsheets. Advanced topics include formulas, function, graphics, database manipulation, and report generation. Keyboard macros and other productivity enhancements are also presented.

This course will cover financial statement analysis, current and plant assets, and other assets. It also covers current, long-term and contingent liabilities, paid-in capital and retained earnings, and the cash flow statement.

This course will teach students basic information of not-for-profit accounting and its primary users: federal, state and local governments; hospitals; non-profit organizations and schools. Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to describe the primary funds and accounting groups, assist in the budget process, and practice variances among the major nonprofit organizations according to their authoritative pronouncements.

Accounting for Healthcare begins with an introduction to healthcare finance and a description of the current financial environment in which healthcare organizations function. It then will explore the basics of financial and managerial accounting, presenting concepts that are critical to making sound financial decisions to better the cost-effectiveness of the organization.

This course is designed to further the student’s accounting knowledge. It covers partnership and corporate accounting, stockholders’ equity, earnings per share, dividends, long- term liabilities, bonds, the statement of cash flows, departmental accounting, the job order cost system and allocation of factory overhead.

This course is designed to acquaint the student with the manner in which the financial system functions and with the techniques used to reach financial decisions. Major topics to be studied include financial markets, financial performance, securities valuation, capital budgeting, and asset management. A conceptual understanding of the financial decision-making process is developed. The importance of ethical behavior is considered throughout.

This course will acquaint students with the federal income tax laws relating to individuals, proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations. Payroll and tax planning will also be studied.

This course covers the concepts of cost accounting as it relates to job - order systems, and process cost systems as well as profit analysis, budgeting and performance evaluation.

This course covers small business accounting using QuickBooks software. Topics include creating and maintaining a chart of accounts, recording customer and vendor transactions, processing payroll, maintaining inventory, recording adjustments and year-end procedures, printing reports and graphs, and exporting data to Excel.