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Automated Accounting

ABTC 182

Students will post simple transactions to, and produce reports for, accounts receivable, accounts payable, general ledger, payroll, and inventory modules, using an integrated accounting software package.

Credits:  5

Hours:
  • Total Hours: 75
  • Lecture Hours: 35
  • Laboratory Hours: 40
This course is offered online:  No

Pre-Requisites: 
  • Keyboarding and Bookkeeping Skills

Course Content:
  • Setting up new accounting records/integration accounts
  • Adding, modifying, and deleting in various modules
  • Analyzing bookkeeping transactions
  • Entering/posting accounting transactions
  • Backing-up accounting records
  • Printing various reports/financial statements
  • Preparing bank reconciliation statement
Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Set up and operate an automated accounting package for a business using a general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, and inventory
- Assess and analyze personal learning needs, set learning objectives and goals, and formulate plans for implementation
- Manage time effectively by setting objectives, organizing, planning, prioritizing, and scheduling activities, routines, and projects
- Achieve business standards for efficiency and quality of work
- Apply ethical standards with respect to privacy, confidentiality, and personal behavior
- Evaluate situations, make informed decisions, and initiate appropriate action
- Apply active listening skills in interpersonal communication and customer relations
- Accurately summarize and record verbal information and carry out instructions
- Keyboard proficiently and accurately
- Transfer skills and knowledge of software, technology, and business procedures from one situation to another
- Analyze and record a variety of business financial transactions such as petty cash, bank deposits, accounts receivable, and accounts payable

- Apply computational skills to business-related tasks and assess the logic of the results

Grading System:  Percentage

Passing Grade:  70%

Grading Weight:
  • Assignments: 60 %
  • Project: 40 %
Percentage of Individual Work:  100

Course Offered in Other Programs:  No

Textbooks: Textbooks are subject to change. Please contact the bookstore at your local campus for current book lists.