Accounting is the language of business and involves the keeping of financial records. This course will introduce students to double-entry accounting and will develop a basic understanding of a business financial operation. Students will be introduced to the accounting cycle of a proprietorship and partnership. Key areas of study include the following: analyzing, recording, and posting of business transactions for a service business, preparing financial statements, reconciliation of bank records and preparation of payroll, taxes and reports. Students will gain insight into business decision making through manual and computerized accounting systems as they learn to interpret financial information of a business.

Prerequisite:  Accounting I

Accounting II students will increase their accounting aptitude to deal with business situations on a higher level of thinking. This course will focus on a departmentalized corporate merchandising and how accounting procedures differ from a proprietorship. Accounting II expands on topics introduced in the first-year accounting course while adding new topics about corporate accounting, budgetary planning and control, management accounting, cost accounting, and financial analysis. Students will complete an automated departmentalized corporate accounting business simulation.

Financial literacy is a key player in the success of your role as a citizen, student, family member, consumer, and active participant in the business world.  This course is intended to provide students with opportunities for self-awareness, expression, and satisfaction in a highly technical and competitive society. Students will develop the skills needed to make sound financial decisions.  Topics will include planning your career, payroll and taxes, banking, credit & debt, financing your first car and home, risk management and insurance (health, auto, home, disability, life), renting an apartment, planning and money management, funding higher education and planning for retirement. 

This course is to provide a basic overview of microcomputer fundamentals and applications, including a study of word processing using Microsoft Word, spreadsheet applications using Microsoft Excel, presentations using PowerPoint, email using Outlook, as well as the integration of all the applications. The student is also exposed to basic computer operations, managing files, and using the Office Suite to its maximum level.