Accounting Certificate of Achievement

Program Description

The Accounting Certificate is designed to prepare students for entry-level positions, updating and maintaining accounting records, calculating disbursements and receipts, tracking accounts payable and receivable, and determining profit and loss.

The pathway below represents an efficient and effective course taking sequence for this program.  Individual circumstances might require some changes to this pathway.  It is always recommended that you meet with an academic counselor to develop a personalized educational plan.

Division

Mathematics, Business & Computer Technology

Department

Accounting

Career and Academic Pathway (CAP)

Business, Information Technology, Hospitality

Program Learning Outcomes

  1. Organize, analyze, and interpret measurable business transactions.

  2. Prepare financial statements by applying Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

  3. Communicate financial and managerial accounting information applying common methods of business communication.

  4. Recognize the value of diversity in opinions, values, abilities, and cultures in all business environments.

  5. Identify ethical and social responsibility issues facing today’s business.

Program Map

GE General Education
O Available Online
Program Requirement
P Program Prerequisites

1st Semester

14 units
ACCT 047
Computerized Accounting
This course provides a comprehensive overview of accounting software. Topics covered include the analysis of source documents and the use of accounting software to prepare, understand, and interpret financial statements for a variety of management purposes. It also includes creation and use of spreadsheets to find the solutions to accounting problems within diverse companies.

Course Details:

ACCT 200
Financial Accounting
This introductory financial accounting course is designed for students interested in business and/or accounting fields. This course is an introduction to the basic concepts and standards underlying financial accounting systems. Students learn to record accounting data and to prepare financial statements. Several important concepts will be studied in detail, including business ethics, the accounting cycle, revenue/expenses recognition, inventory, long-lived assets, liabilities, and equities.

Course Details:

  1. Departmental Advisory: MATH 102
  2. Departmental Advisory: ENGL 101
    3. or
  3. Departmental Advisory: ENGL 101H
  • Transfers to CSU
    • BUSAD 100
    Introduction to Business
    This course will introduce students to the fundamental concepts of business in a changing world. It includes an overview of such areas as economic systems, management, marketing, accounting, finance, ethics, ownership, organization of business, the legal aspects and regulation of business, as well as globalization.

    Course Details:

    1. Departmental Advisory: ENGL 015
  • Transfers to CSU
    • ECON 208 or MATH 108 or MATH 108H
    This course is a study of statistical methods commonly used in business and economics including measures of central tendency; measures of dispersion and skewness; probability concepts and distributions; statistical inferences; parametric and non-parametric hypothesis testing; index numbers time series analysis; simple regression, and correlation analysis.

    Course Details:

    1. Transfers to CSU
      2. This course is an introduction to probability, descriptive and inferential statistics, with applications to the natural sciences, life science, health science, education, business, economics, and the behavioral sciences.

      Course Details:

      1. Transfers to CSU

        2. This course is an introduction to probability, descriptive and inferential statistics, with applications to the natural sciences, life science, health science, education, business, economics, and the behavioral sciences. This course includes content and experiences appropriate for students wishing to earn honors credit. This course is intended for students in the Honors Program, but is open to all students who desire more challenging course work.

        Course Details:

          2nd Semester

          13 units
          BUSAD 210
          Business Law
          This course explores the legal environment in which business operates.  It includes an introduction to law and legal reasoning, ethics, torts, strict and products liability, criminal law and contracts. Special emphasis is placed on acquiring a working knowledge of the rules for contracting in general and the modifications applicable under the Uniform Commercial Code for the sale of goods.

          Course Details:

          1. Departmental Advisory: ENGL 015
        1. Transfers to CSU
          2. ECON 200 or ECON 200H
          This course provides an introduction to macroeconomic theory and the role of fiscal and monetary policies in economics with special emphasis on national economic problems, aggregate measures of economic activity, macroeconomic equilibrium, financial institutions, economic growth, the business cycle and international economics.

          Course Details:

          1. Transfers to CSU

            2. This course provides an introduction to macroeconomic theory and the role of fiscal and monetary policies in economics with special emphasis on national economic problems, aggregate measures of economic activity, macroeconomic equilibrium, economic growth, the business cycle, financial institutions and international economics. This course is intended for students in the Honors Program but is open to all students who desire more challenging coursework.

            Course Details:

            1. Prerequisite: ENGL 101
              2. or
            2. Prerequisite: ENGL 101H
            3. Departmental Advisory: MATH 095
              4. or
            4. Departmental Advisory: MATH 096
          2. Transfers to CSU
            3. ECON 201 or ECON 201H
            This course provides an introduction to microeconomic theory, including economic development, international economics, and comparative economic systems with special emphasis on microeconomic problems such as the provisioning of public goods and environmental regulations.

            Course Details:

            1. Transfers to CSU

              2. This course provides an introduction to microeconomic theory, including economic development, international economics, and comparative economic systems with special emphasis on microeconomic problems such as the provisioning of public goods and environmental regulations. This course is intended for students in the Honors Program but is open to all students who desire more challenging coursework.

              Course Details:

              1. Prerequisite: ENGL 101
                2. or
              2. Prerequisite: ENGL 101H
              3. Departmental Advisory: MATH 095
                4. or
              4. Departmental Advisory: MATH 096
            2. Transfers to CSU
              3. ACCT 201
              Managerial Accounting
              This course studies the use of accounting information in decision-making, planning, directing operations and controlling.  It focuses on cost terms and concepts, cost behavior, cost structure and cost-volume-profit analysis. Issues relating to ethics, cost systems, cost control, profit planning, and performance analysis in manufacturing and service environments are also examined.

              Course Details:

              1. Prerequisite: ACCT 200
            3. Transfers to CSU