Associate in Applied Science Degree
Accounting

This 61 credit-hour program is designed to prepare students for employment as junior accountants in business, industry, and government.

The curriculum includes the study of accounting theory and practice, corporation accounting, and cost accounting. Required business coursework provides for an overview of the corporate community and includes economics, business law, and management classes. Computer information skills are essential to today’s accountants and are also required in this degree.

FIRST YEAR
First Semester:
ACC 101 Introduction to Financial Accounting 4
CIS 101 Introduction to Computer Information Systems 3
English (1) 3
MGT 111 Introduction to Business Organization 3
Mathematics elective (2) 3-4
total:   16-17
Second Semester
ACC 102 Introduction to Managerial Accounting 3
CIS 106 Computer Logic and Programming Technology or
CIS 218 E-Commerce Development 3
ECO 200 Introduction to Economics or
ECO 211 Microeconomics 3
ENG 130 Business Writing (1) 3
Humanities elective 3
total:   15

SECOND YEAR
First Semester:
ACC or CIS Elective (3) 3
ACC 201 Intermediate Accounting I 3
ACC 211 Business Law I 3
Business elective (4) 3
Social Science elective 3
total:   15
Second Semester
ACC 202 Intermediate Accounting II 3
ACC 203 Introductory Cost Accounting 3
Business electives (4) 6
CIS electives (5) 3
total:   15
  1. Students may elect ENG 100, ENG 101 or ENG 102, depending on their test scores and advice of a Student Development faculty member. ENG 130 must be taken as the second English course.
  2. Only MGT 150 or MTH 124 or higher will satisfy this requirement.
  3. Elective (students must satisfy prerequisite for course elected): ACC 155, ACC 250, ACC 251, ACC 253, ACC 254, CIS 203.
  4. Electives (students must satisfy prerequisites for each course elected): ACC 212, ACC 213, BFC 215, MGT 218, MGT 225, MGT 270.
  5. Elective: CIS 120 or CIS 122, CIS 123, CIS 124.