Accounting: Associate of Applied Science Degree
Portland, OR Campus

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Objectives

The program exposes students to fundamental knowledge and skills utilized in entry-level accounting. Students will be exposed to a variety of skills used to provide technical administrative support to professional accountants and other financial management personnel. Students are introduced to a variety of accounting topics, including posting transactions to accounts, record-keeping systems, accounting software operation and general accounting principles and practices.

Career Opportunities

This program offers graduates an opportunity to develop knowledge and skills that can help them pursue careers in a variety of entry-level accounting and bookkeeping positions.

Admission Requirements

Refer to the Admission section of this catalog for information relating to Admission Requirements and Procedures for this program.

School Equipment

Students will have the opportunity to use the following school equipment as required throughout the program: computers, pertinent software, printers and other common computer peripherals. Refer to Student Equipment in the Online Course Information section of this catalog for information relating the student equipment requirements for the distance education courses that are taught online over the Internet.

Class Size

Classes generally range in size from 20 to 40 students. Depending on the course subject matter, certain classes may contain a greater or lesser number of students.

Program Outline

Course Number	Course	Credit Hours
Program Total 93.0
Core Courses Subtotal 54.0 AC1220 Accounting Principles I+ 4.5 AC1320 Accounting Principles II+ 4.5 AC1420 Financial Accounting+ 4.5 AC2520 Tax Preparation+ 4.5 AC2620 Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting+ 4.5 AC2720 Cost Accounting+ 4.5 AC2799 Accounting Capstone Project+ 4.5 BU1110 Introduction to Business+ 4.5 BU1410 Management Information Systems+ 4.5 BU2620 Fundamentals of Business Communications+ 4.5 FN2640 Fundamentals of Finance+ 4.5 MG1350 Fundamentals of Supervision+ 4.5
Elective Courses ---------- Unspecified Elective course+* 3.0
General Education Courses Subtotal 27.0 CO2520 Communications+ 4.5 EN1320 Composition I+ 4.5 EN1420 Composition II+ 4.5 ES2550 Microeconomics+ 4.5 ES2560 Macroeconomics+ 4.5 MA1210 College Mathematics I+ 4.5
General Studies Courses Subtotal 9.0 GS1140 Problem Solving Theory+ 4.5 GS1145 Strategies for the Technical Professional+ 4.5

+In this program, this course may be taught either completely in residence at the school, completely online over the Internet as a distance education course or partially in residence and partially online, as determined by the school from time to time in its discretion. Refer to the Online Course Information section of this catalog for additional information relating to the courses that the school decides to teach all or partially online over the Internet. In order to help students become familiar with fundamentals of taking courses online over the Internet, the school may determine that a portion of the first online course that a student takes in this program must be taken online at the school in a supervised setting.

*Courses offered at this school that satisfy the Unspecified Elective course requirement are BU2710 and GS2745. The course descriptions for these courses are in the Course Descriptions section of the catalog

NOTE: The course descriptions for the courses in this program are in the Course Descriptions section of this catalog. The school may, at any time in its discretion, vary the offering and/or sequence of courses in this program, revise the curriculum content of the program or any course in the program and change the number of credit hours in the program or in any program course.