School of Business
School of Business

Accounting (Residence Associate''s Program): Associate of Applied Science Degree
Indianapolis, IN 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

Equipment - The student is responsible, at his or her expense, for providing all supplies and equipment for the student''s use in the distance education courses in any program that is taught online over the Internet. The student equipment includes, without limitation, a computer (and the associated accessories and peripheral equipment, including without limitation, a monitor, keyboard and printer), software, Internet service and e-mail account ("Student Equipment"). In order to assist students whose access to their Student Equipment is disrupted, the school will, from time to time in its discretion, make available certain computers, associated peripheral equipment and Internet access at the school for use by those students.

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 55.5
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
BU1115 Introduction to Business Principles+ 6.0
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+* 4.5
General Education Courses
Subtotal 22.5
EN1320 Composition I+ 4.5
ES2550 Microeconomics+ 4.5
ES2560 Macroeconomics+ 4.5
HU1440 Rhetoric in Contemporary Culture+ 4.5
MA1210 College Mathematics I+ 4.5
General Studies Courses
Subtotal 10.5
GS1115 Foundational Strategies+ 6.0
GS2520 Professional Communications+ 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 these 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 BU2715 and GS2748. 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.

Meet a Graduate

Brock Oelze
Computer and Electronics Engineering Technology
Associate of Applied Science

Graduated 2009
Lexington, KY

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- Tiffany Edwards, 2009
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