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2024-2025 General Catalog
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ACC 142 - Financial 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 emphasizes accrual-basis accounting procedures including: the accounting cycle, inventory evaluation, internal control, fixed and tangible assets, payroll, debt and equity accounting, preparation of financial statements, and financial statement analysis.   

Recommended(s): ACC 111 - Introduction to Accounting  
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None

Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face, virtual, and/or online

Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.

Course Fees: There is a $124.99 course fee which includes all courses that utilize the Cengage products.

Common Course Assessment(s): None

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
 

  1. Conceptualize accounting as an information cycle.
    1. Describe the foundation for accounting for different types of business entities
    2. Apply the financial effects of business transactions
    3. Prepare general-purpose financial statements
  2. Differentiate accounting for merchandising from the buyer and seller perspectives
    1. Account for sales and purchase transactions
    2. Account for inventory using various cost methods
  3. Describe the importance of controlling cash.
    1. Recognize effective internal control over cash and reconcile cash to the bank statement.
    2. Report for receivables
  4. Account for fixed and intangible long-term assets
    1. Calculate, utilizing the various methods, the decline in utility of long-term assets.
    2. Journalize the disposal of fixed assets
  5. Account for current and long-term liabilities, and payroll
    1. Calculate and record short-term liabilities for both the employee and the employer
    2. Calculate both the current and long-term portion of bonds and notes payable
    3. Calculate and record amortization and depletion costs



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