Accounting: Associate of Applied Science Degree
Austin, TX 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	Quarter Credit Hours	Scheduled Units of Course Time of Classes
Scheduled Units of Course Time of Classes in Program			1224
Program Total 93.0
Core Courses Subtotal 54.0 718 AC1220T Accounting Principles I 4.5 67 AC1320T Accounting Principles II 4.5 67 AC1420T Financial Accounting 4.5 54 AC2520T Tax Preparation 4.5 67 AC2620T Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting 4.5 54 AC2720T Cost Accounting 4.5 54 AC2799T Accounting Capstone Project 4.5 72 BU1110T Introduction to Business 4.5 54 BU1410T Management Information Systems 4.5 67 BU2620T Fundamentals of Business Communications 4.5 54 FN2640T Fundamentals of Finance 4.5 54 MG1350T Fundamentals of Supervision 4.5 54
Elective Courses ---------- Unspecified Elective courses 3.0 48
General Education Courses Subtotal 27.0 337 CO2520T Communications 4.5 54 EN1320T Composition I 4.5 67 EN1420T Composition II 4.5 54 ES2550T Microeconomics 4.5 54 ES2560T Macroeconomics 4.5 54 MA1210T College Mathematics I 4.5 54
General Studies Courses Subtotal 9.0 121 GS1140T Problem Solving Theory 4.5 54 GS1145T Strategies for the Technical Professional 4.5 67

*Courses offered at this school that satisfy the Unspecified Elective course requirement are BU2710T and GS2745T. The course descriptions for these courses are in the Course Descriptions section of this 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.