ACCT 212 - QuickBooks for Accounting

Credits: 5
Provides hands-on experience using QuickBooks online. Includes comprehensive coverage of setting up accounting records, recording sales and purchases transactions, accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory management and job costing. The capstone financial accounting course for the accounting certificate. Previously ACCT 112.

Enrollment Requirement: ACCT 110 or ACCT& 201; and BTAC 100 with grades of 2.0 or higher; or instructor consent.

Course Fee: $20.00

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Use QuickBooks to record accounting activities including company set-up, sales and accounts receivable, purchases and accounts payable for service and merchandising businesses, inventory management, adjusting and end-of-period procedures.

Program Outcomes

Demonstrate knowledge of accounting and business operations and the ability to correctly use common accounting vocabulary.
Analyze and record business transactions and activities in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
Perform bookkeeping/accounting procedures required in entry- or intermediate-level bookkeeping/accounting positions.
Use general ledger computerized software to perform bookkeeping/accounting functions including preparation of financial statements and accounting reports for a small to medium sized business.
Demonstrate critical thinking, analytical and quantitative skills in problem solving, decision making, and responsibility by completing assignments independently and/or as a dependable team member.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.