Bookkeeping Certificate of Career Preparation

Program Description

Bookkeeping clerks along with accounting and auditing clerks are an organization's financial recordkeepers. They update and maintain one or more accounting records. All of these clerks make numerous computations each day. In small businesses, bookkeeping clerks handle all financial transactions and recordkeeping. In large offices and accounting departments, the clerks have more specialized tasks, such as accounts payable or accounts receivable. The responsibilities vary by level of experience.

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. Understand the role and the duties of a bookkeeper within the framework of the required accounting activities in a business setting.

  2. Explain and apply the concepts of cash vs. accrual basis accounting, double entry bookkeeping as well as the debits and credits.

  3. Prepare basic payroll transitions ranging from paying wages to depositing and reporting payroll taxes.

  4. Make appropriate and accurate accounting entries for a variety of financial records.

Program Map

GE General Education
O Available Online
Program Requirement
P Program Prerequisites

1st Semester

9 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.

Course Details:

ACCT 090 - Payroll Accounting
This course is designed to introduce various types of employee compensations and the current federal and state payroll taxes system. Withholding requirements from employees' compensations as well as payroll taxes reporting are studied. Various types of payroll taxes forms are discussed and prepared. This course will focus on the records and control requirements of payroll accounting.

Course Details:

ACCT 047 or CIT 114
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.

Course Details:

OR
Production of workbooks using EXCEL, which integrates spreadsheet analysis, information management, and graphics. Includes the design and the use of worksheets; how to enter labels, numbers, formulas, and create graphs; how to format worksheets professionally; how to use Excel functions in different applications and understand the concept of data management in Excel; how to use the concept of what-if-analysis; how to consolidate data in a 3-D workbook and establish File Linking; and how to integrate Excel with the Web.

Course Details:

  1. Departmental Advisory: CIT 100
    2. or
  2. Departmental Advisory: CIT 101