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2023-2024 College Catalog and Student Handbook

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Accounting Specialist Certificate (ACSP)

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The Accounting Specialist Certificate program provides students with a working knowledge of accounts receivable, accounts payable, and general accounting activities. Students may apply the courses taken in the Accounting Specialist Certificate to the Associate Degree in Applied Science with a Major in Accounting.

Following is a list of courses required to complete this program. Since some courses are offered once a year, courses should be taken in the following sequence in order to complete the program in a timely manner:

Full-Time Schedule

First Year

Fall Semester

ACC 101 - Accounting Principles I 3 Credit Hours
ACC 124 - Individual Tax Procedures 3 Credit Hours
COL 105 - Freshman Seminar 3 Credit Hours
CPT 101 - Introduction to Computers 3 Credit Hours
MGT 101 - Principles of Management 3 Credit Hours

Total Credit Hours: 15

Spring Semester

ACC 102 - Accounting Principles II 3 Credit Hours
ACC 150 - Payroll Accounting 3 Credit Hours
CPT 174 - Microcomputer Spreadsheets 3 Credit Hours
Approved Elective 3 Credit Hours

Total Credit Hours: 12

Part-Time Schedule

First Year

Fall Semester

ACC 101 - Accounting Principles I 3 Credit Hours
COL 105 - Freshman Seminar 3 Credit Hours
CPT 101 - Introduction to Computers 3 Credit Hours

Total Credit Hours: 9

Spring Semester

ACC 102 - Accounting Principles II 3 Credit Hours
ACC 150 - Payroll Accounting 3 Credit Hours

Total Credit Hours: 6

Summer Semester

MGT 101 - Principles of Management 3 Credit Hours
Approved Elective 3 Credit Hours

Total Credit Hours: 6

Second Year

Fall Semester

ACC 124 - Individual Tax Procedures 3 Credit Hours
CPT 174 - Microcomputer Spreadsheets 3 Credit Hours

Total Credit Hours:6

Approved Electives

Choose from the following:

ACC 201 - Intermediate Accounting I 3 Credit Hours
ACC 230 - Cost Accounting I 3 Credit Hours
ACC 240 - Computerized Accounting 3 Credit Hours
ACC 265 - Not-For-Profit Accounting 3 Credit Hours
BAF 201 - Principles of Finance 3 Credit Hours
BUS 121 - Business Law I 3 Credit Hours
ECO 210 - Macroeconomics 3 Credit Hours
ECO 211 - Microeconomics 3 Credit Hours
ENG 101 - English Composition I 3 Credit Hours
MAT 101 - Beginning Algebra 3 Credit Hours
MAT 110 - College Algebra 3 Credit Hours
MGT 240 - Management Decision Making 3 Credit Hours
MKT 101 - Marketing 3 Credit Hours
PHI 110 - Ethics 3 Credit Hours
SPC 205 - Public Speaking 3 Credit Hours

27 Semester Hours

This program is aligned with the following career cluster: Finance.