| | Business Administration - Accounting (A.O.S.)
The associate degree of Occupational Studies (AOS) for Business Administration integrates conventional accounting courses in a module that includes relevant interdisciplinary subjects. This business-related program is oriented toward preparing students for both administrative and accounting vocations in various sectors of the economy.
The importance of accounting in our contemporary society is witnessed by the support role accountants fulfill in measuring, accumulating, analyzing, and preparing financial information for decision making. Managers and administrators rely on accounting information to make strategic and tactical decisions, and they consider the accounting personnel integral to the decision-making core of organizations. Thus, there is no denying that accountants are needed for procuring, preparing, and presenting meaningful information to aid in formulating business decisions.
ASA’s Associate Degree program in Business Administration-Accounting combines theory with extensive computer applications. Students develop competencies in a variety of software that are critical in the practice of accounting and business management; i.e. Peachtree, QuickBooks, TurboTax and others. The accounting courses are offered in a pattern that proceeds from the simple to complex. The curriculum is replete with courses in the humanities, office technology, and complementing electives. In the process of enhancing learning-by-discovery; faculty members facilitate students with intensive course work that simulates the typical work milieu.
A vital component of the Business Administration- Accounting program is a mandatory practicum (viz.: externship) in which students endeavor to apply their theoretical exposure to accounting, e-commerce, retail management. Participation in this work-experience program is permitted in the final semester.
In the area of accounting, graduates find jobs as staff accountants, junior accountants, payroll managers, bookkeepers, accounting operatives, and loan processors. Graduates fulfilling graduation requirements with a major in Retail Management will be able to find jobs as advertising generalist or specialist, promotion operatives, customer service managers, or retail analysts. Academic preparation in e-commerce qualifies graduates to assume positions in direct marketing, personal selling, brand development, and customer service in business-to-business and business-to customer settings.
The Associate of Occupational Studies degree program in Business Administration - Accounting requires the successful completion of 63 semester credit hours for graduation.
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