Online Accounting Training Program

The Accounting Certificate program provides students with new job skills or refines existing accounting knowledge to advance in a current position, improve performance in a current business or prepare for further training.

Upon completion of the program, students will be able to:

• Recognize the opportunities in the accounting field; identify types of business organizations
• Outline the procedures involved in journalizing, posting and preparing the basic financial statements of an enterprise. Recognize the differences between categories of documents
• Recognize the elements of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling as they pertain to business and management
• Demonstrate effective quantitative skills in basic mathematical operations pertaining to the business environment
• Outline the accounting methods for depreciation computation, and stock and bond transactions. Recognize the procedures for computing gains or losses on trade-ins and sales of long term assets. Differentiate among the criteria used in accounting partnerships
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to compose and revise professional business correspondence, such as memos, letters, emails, and forms

Opportunities in accounting; types of business organizations; the nature of accounting.

Transactions and their effect on financial reports; determining the profitability of operations; analyzing the owner's interest in a business; the statement of cash flows; recording transactions; journal entries and posting to accounts; periodic adjustments; closing the accounts; the work sheet; a comprehensive review of the accounting cycle for a service business; accounts and procedures for a merchandising business; preparation of work sheet, financial statements, and closing entries; special journals; payroll accounting; payroll taxes on the employer.

Supplement: Bookkeeping and Accounting in Canada

In the business world, people are sometimes put into management situations when they really don’t understand what management is all about. Although some are able to step into a management position and handle it naturally, others find the responsibilities to be overwhelming. Management courses are a must. For those proficient in managerial positions, management courses can help improve their skills and gain a better understanding of their new responsibilities. For those who are overwhelmed by a new management position, or who strive to secure a management position, management courses help by presenting concepts and ideas to build new skills.

This course is divided into lessons that discuss the foundations and principles of management, planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. As you read the textbook, try to relate the material to your own experiences. If you don’t have any management experience, try to put yourself in the place of your manager and relate the material to those experiences.

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

• Summarize the functions of management and the basic steps in various planning processes
• Explain how to make effective decisions as a manager and a leader
• Describe the fundamental elements of an organization’s structure and the components of an organization’s competitive environment
• Explain principles for setting goals that motivate employees, why companies develop control systems, and why teamwork is beneficial
• Analyze why diversity is a critical organizational and managerial issue, and describe the criteria for technology decisions and managing change

Textbook: M: Management

This course will provide a foundation in basic mathematical operations. You'll learn about percentages, discounts, interest, present worth, sinking funds, installment buying, pricing, depreciation, investments, insurance, the use of symbols and their applications, equations and formulas, and the importance of statistics.

Textbook: Practical Business Math Procedures

Accounting for cash; accounting for receivables; notes receivables; accounting for short-term investments; accounting for inventories; accounting for the acquisition and depreciation of property, plant, and equipment; accounting for natural resources and long-lived intangible assets; accounting for long-term investments; accounting for current liabilities; accounting for long-term liabilities; accounting principles and concepts; accounting for partnerships; division of partnership earnings; terminating a partnership; accounting for corporations; retained earnings; consolidated statements; accounting cycle for a firm operating as a corporation; instructions for handling accounting transactions.

Supplement: Internal Control

A description of the parts of a sentence; how to use the parts of speech to write effectively; subject-verb agreement; use of the active voice; effective use of modifiers; producing correct, polished writing for business; common grammatical problems; descriptions of punctuation marks and the purpose of each; using punctuation to properly document research sources; rules of capitalization; writing complete, correctly structured sentences and unified, coherent paragraphs; sentence length and variety; avoiding run-ons and fragments; constructing organized paragraphs; using particular patterns of organization, content, and language to most effectively convey a specific idea to a specific audience; revising, editing, and proofreading; composing clear, courteous, and complete messages; formatting and etiquette for letters, email, memos, and forms.

Reference: Introduction to Writing