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ACCOUNTING
Associate Degree in Business (ACC)
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Business Department's Mission Statement
Midlands Technical College's Business Department provides an innovative, up-to-date learning environment that enables individuals to achieve their personal, professional and educational goals for the purpose of contributing to the economic growth of the community. |
DESCRIPTION:
A program designed to teach the student accounting and auditing techniques. The student is introduced to general accounting procedures and is also exposed to accounting procedures used in tax accounting, cost accounting and auditing. There are a variety of electives available to students in this program to allow them to tailor the program to suit their individual needs. In addition to learning basic accounting theory, the student will also learn the latest techniques in automated accounting using modern computers and electronic spreadsheets.
NOTE: This program is not designed to transfer to senior colleges and universities although some courses may transfer.
BEGINNING SEMESTERS: FALL, SPRING, SUMMER
CAMPUS: AIRPORT, BELTLINE
PLACEMENT TEST SCORES REQUIRED TO ENROLL IN CURRICULUM COURSES:
GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS:
A minimum of 69 semester hours is required for graduation.
Students must earn a grade of "C" or better in all of the courses offered within the Business and Information Systems Technology departments for the courses to count toward graduation. This includes courses with the following prefixes: ACC, BAF, BUS, CPT, CRP, IST, LEG, MGT, MKT and OST.
PROGRAM NOTES:
- This Program is not designed to transfer to senior colleges and universities although some individual courses may transfer. See your advisor about transfer.
- A student may substitute MAT 102 or a higher math course for MAT 155.
- CPT 170 should be taken as early in sequence of courses as possible.
- Principles courses must be taken first. ACC 112 should be taken in the first semester of the degree program.
- Catalogue prerequisites are required before taking the upper level courses. Advisors should note one and two semester sequence of courses when scheduling students to be sure to allow enough semesters to cover courses in sequence.
- The student must earn a grade of "C" or better in business courses for these courses to count toward graduation.
- At least one course must be taken from the list of approved Humanities courses.
- For more information please see the
Accounting Department web page.  
| CURRICULUM REQUIREMENTS |
| Course |
Prerequisite |
| ENG 101 |
English Composition I |
RDG 100, ENG 100 |
| ENG 102 |
English Composition II |
ENG 101 |
| ECO 210 |
Macroeconomics |
RDG 100, MAT 102 or MAT 155
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| MAT 155 (See Program Note 2) |
Macroeconomics |
MAT 100 |
| Humanities Elective |
See Humanities List |
| MAJOR COURSE REQUIREMENTS |
| Course |
Prerequisite |
| ACC 111 |
Accounting Concepts |
RDG 100, MAT 100 |
| ACC 112 |
Organizational Accounting |
ACC 111 |
| ACC 115 |
Managerial Accounting |
ACC 112 |
| ACC 201 |
Intermediate Accounting I |
ACC 101 or ACC 112 |
| ACC 202 |
Intermediate Accounting II |
ACC 201 |
| BUS 121 |
Business Law I |
RDG 100 |
| CPT 170 |
Microcomputer Applications |
RDG 100, MAT 100 |
| ADDITIONAL COURSE REQUIREMENTS |
| Course |
Prerequisite |
| ACC 124 |
Individual Tax Procedures |
ACC 102 or ACC 112 |
| ACC 245 |
Accounting Applications |
ACC 112 & CPT 101 or CPT 170 |
| ACC 246 |
Integrated Accounting Software |
ACC 112 & CPT 101 or CPT 170 |
| BAF 201 |
Principles of Finance |
ACC 101 or ACC 112 |
| BUS 130 |
Business Communications |
ENG 101 |
| BUS 210 |
Introduction to E-Commerce in Business |
RDG 100 |
| MGT 101 |
Principles of Management |
RDG 100 |
| MKT 101 |
Marketing |
RDG 100 |
| 3 Approved Accounting Electives |
See Accounting Electives |
Recommended First Semester Courses and/or Alternates
HIGH PRIORITY COURSES |
| Core Course |
General Education |
| ACC 111 |
English |
| BUS 101 |
Math |
| BUS 121 |
ECO 210 |
| CPT 170 |
Humanities Elective |
04/09/07
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