BA 260 - Computerized Accounting II

Description
Students learn to use a computerized accounting system in this advanced computerized accounting course. Employing a popular software package used in many small to medium businesses, students cover such topics as journal entries, general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable payroll, inventory, job costing, and adjusting and closing entries.

Credit Hours: 2
Contact Hours: 2

School: School of Business & Industry
Department: Business
Discipline: BA

Major Course Revisions: N/A
Last Revision Date Effective: 20240208T17:17:12
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:

Use accounting software to deepen the student’s understanding of accounting principles.
Use accounting software to demonstrate how accounting principles are applied using real business transactions.
Process various accounting transactions using accounting software.
Prepare financial statements and various management reports using automated systems.
Use rules or frameworks to provide context for and understand problems or issues.
Create and/or organize data and information into meaningful patterns in order to interpret and draw inferences from it.
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

II. How to enter transactions
A. Vendor Transactions
B. Customer Transactions

III. How the Software Works
A. Posting to the General Ledger
B. Maintaining Inventory

IV. Preparing Financial Statements

V. Accounting for a Service Business
A. Maintaining Accounting Records for Service Businesses
B. Completing Quarterly Activities and Closing the Fiscal Year
C. Applying job cost activities

VI. Accounting for Merchandising Businesses
A. Accounts Payable
B. Accounts Receivable
C. Payroll
D. Merchandise Inventory

VII. Advanced Applications

VIII. Customizing Forms

IX. Dynamic Data Exchange with Excel for Microsoft Windows

X. Import/Export

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:
Students will use a computerized software solution to account for a number of different business situations.

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:
Master’s Degree (GRCC general requirement), Professionally qualified through work experience in field (Perkins Act or Other) (list below)
Faculty Credential Requirement Details: Accounting related certification

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)
People Soft Course ID Number: 102492
Course CIP Code: 52.9999

High School Articulation Agreements exist?: No
Non-Credit GRCC Agreement exist?: No
If yes, with which Departments?: NA
Corporate Articulation Agreement exist?: No
If yes, with which Companies?: NA