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GRCC Curriculum Database (2024-2025 Academic Year) 
    
GRCC Curriculum Database (2024-2025 Academic Year)
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BA 160 - Computerized Accounting I


Description
Students receive hands-on instruction in a computerized accounting program (Quickbooks or similar software) which is suited for small and home-based businesses applications. The major topics covered in this course include cash disbursements, cash receipts, accounts receivable, accounts payable, billing, purchasing, inventory control, payroll, and general ledger.
Credit Hours: 2
Contact Hours: 2
School: School of Business & Industry
Department: Business
Discipline: BA
Major Course Revisions: N/A
Last Revision Date Effective: 20240208T17:16:28
Course Review & Revision Year: 2028-2029
Course Type:
Program Requirement- Offering designed to meet the learning needs of students in a specific GRCC program.
Course Format:
Lecture - 1:1

General Education Requirement: None
General Education Learner Outcomes (GELO):
NA
Course Learning Outcomes:
  1. Use accounting software to demonstrate how accounting principles are applied using real business transactions.
  2. Process various accounting transactions using accounting software.
  3. Prepare financial statements and various management reports using automated systems.
  4. Use rules or frameworks to provide context for and understand problems or issues. 
  5. Create and/or organize data and information into meaningful patterns in order to interpret and draw inferences from it.  
  6. Identify quality sources for data and information pertinent to a problem or issue being examined. 

Approved for Online Delivery?: Yes
Course Outline:
I. Exploring the Computer Software

      A.  Navigating the software and related settings
      B.  Creating and modifying the Chart of Accounts

II. Introduction to Entering Transactions

      A.  Banking transactions

      B.  Customer transactions

      C.  Vendor transactions
      D.  Employee transactions

III. Banking

      A.  Banking transactions such as making deposits and writing checks
      B.  Matching bank transactions

      C.  Bank reconciliations

IV. Customers and Sales
      A. Adding and editing customer records

      B. Adding and editing service items
      C. Entering various customer transactions 

V. Vendors and Expenses
      A. Adding and editing vendor records
      B. Entering various vendor transactions 

VI. Inventory

      A. Adding and editing inventory items
      B. Entering transactions related to the purchase of inventory

      C. Entering transactions related to the sale of inventory (including taxable sales)

VII. Employees and Payroll

       A. Adding employees and contractors
       B. Tracking time

       C. Billing tracked time

VIII. Accounting cycle and reporting

      A. A review of the accounting cycle

      B. Entering adjusting entries

IX. Reporting  

      A. A review of the accounting cycle

      B. Entering adjusting entries

      C. Creating and interpreting various financial statements and reports


Mandatory CLO Competency Assessment Measures:
None
Name of Industry Recognize Credentials: NA
Instructional Strategies:
Lecture:  30-60%
Facilitated discussion:  20-60%
Group work:  0-20%
Mediated instruction:  0-20%

Mandatory Course Components:
None  
Academic Program Prerequisite: None
Prerequisites/Other Requirements: BA 156  (C or Higher) or BA 256  (C or Higher) 
English Prerequisite(s): None
Math Prerequisite(s): None
Course Corerequisite(s): None
Course-Specific Placement Test: None
Course Aligned with IRW: N/A
Consent to Enroll in Course: No Department Consent Required
Total Lecture Hours Per Week: 2
Faculty Credential Requirements:
18 graduate credit hours in discipline being taught (HLC Requirement), Master’s Degree (GRCC general requirement), Professionally qualified through work experience in field (Perkins Act or Other) (list below)
Faculty Credential Requirement Details: Master’s Degree in Accounting or related field with 18 graduate hours in Accounting.

4000 hrs of work experience in accounting.

Accounting related certification (CPA)
Maximum Course Enrollment: 24
Equivalent Courses: None
Dual Enrollment Allowed?: No
Advanced Placement (AP) Exam Credit Accepted: None
AP Min. Score: NA
Number of Times Course can be taken for credit: 1
First Term Valid: Fall 2019 (8/1/2019)
Programs Where This Courses is a Requirement:
Accounting, A.B., Pre-Accounting, A.B. (3+1, Davenport University)
1st Catalog Year: 2019-2020
People Soft Course ID Number: 102491
Course CIP Code: 52.9999
High School Articulation Agreements exist?: No
If yes, with which high schools?: NA
Non-Credit GRCC Agreement exist?: No
If yes, with which Departments?: NA
Corporate Articulation Agreement exist?: No
If yes, with which Companies?: NA



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