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Apr 19, 2024
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ACC 311 - Computer Accounting
Course Department: Business
Last Date of Approval: Fall 2022
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course will provide students with experience utilizing the computer in maintaining accounting records, making management decisions, and processing common business applications with a primary focus on the general ledger package. Simulation of business and its activities are processed through the entire accounting cycle culminating in the various accounting reports.
Prerequisites: ACC 111 - Introduction to Accounting or ACC 142 - Financial Accounting
Mode(s) of Instruction: Traditional/face-to-face, and/or online
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: Testing Charge: $115.00
Common Course Assessment(s): The Intuit QuickBooks Online Certified User Exam assesses comprehension of the entire QuickBooks Online software program. A minimum score of 70% is required to pass the exam and become certified.
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
- Students will conceptualize accounting as an information cycle
- Enter transactions into a computerized accounting information system
- Understand the effect of a computerized transaction on the accounting equation and be able to fix mistakes and errors
- Account for payroll, cash and internal control
- Analyze job costing from initially creating an estimate to job completion
- Students will differentiate accounting for merchandising from the buyer and seller perspectives
- Maintain inventory records including tracking profit from cost to sales
- Manage Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable transactions in computerized software systems
- Students will explain and differentiate multiple software programs as accounting information systems.
- Understand a business’s file in the cloud system, on a hard drive, and in an app on a smart phone
- Assist a business in determining the software program best suited for their needs
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