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
Prerequisites/Other Requirements: BA 156 (C or Higher) or BA 256 (C or Higher)
English Prerequisite(s): None
Math Prerequisite(s): None
Course Corequisite(s): None
Academic Program Prerequisite: None
Consent to Enroll in Course: No Department Consent Required
Dual Enrollment Allowed?: No
Number of Times Course can be taken for credit: 1
Programs Where This Course is a Requirement:
Accounting, A.B., Pre-Accounting, A.B. (3+1, Davenport University)

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.

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

Approved for Online and Hybrid Delivery?:
Yes
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.
Equivalent Courses:
None

Accepted GRCC Advanced Placement (AP) Exam Credit: None
AP Min. Score: NA
Name of Industry Recognize Credentials: NA

Course prepares students to seek the following external certification:
No
Course-Specific Placement Test: None
Course Aligned with ARW/IRW Pairing: N/A

Mandatory Department Assessment Measures:
None

Course Type:
Program Requirement- Offering designed to meet the learning needs of students in a specific GRCC program.
Course Format:
Lecture - 1:1
Total Lecture Hours Per Week: 2
People Soft Course ID Number: 102492
Course CIP Code: 52.9999
Maximum Course Enrollment: 24
High School Articulation Agreements exist?: No
Non-Credit GRCC Articulation Agreement With What Area: No
Identify the Non Credit Programs this Course is Accepted: NA

School: School of Business & Industry
Department: Business
Discipline: BA
First Term Valid: Fall 2019 (8/1/2019)
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

Major Course Revisions: N/A
Last Revision Date Effective: 20240208T17:17:12
Course Review & Revision Year: 2028-2029