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Online Learning Resources

To assist students, the Accounting Department has created an on-line learning resource site where students can access and download a variety of learning supplements.

These range from detailed chapter handouts to direct links to publishers sites to solutions to homework problems and review problems.

Access the resource site.

 
    



Overview:

In today's world of high finance, managers at all levels in business must have updated financial information to make decisions to ensure the success of their firms. Accountants and auditors prepare, analyze and verify the financial data and reports.

MTC's Accounting program is designed to help you develop the skills necessary for the highly technical and rapidly changing business environment. At MTC, first-year students learn basic financial and managerial accounting skills and computer applications. Advanced students further develop their skills in financial, cost and taxation accounting. In addition, many electives are available in auditing, payroll and not-for-profit accounting, federal taxation.

Accounting Program's Mission and Goals:

Mission Statement:
Midlands Technical College’s Accounting Program provides students with skills, knowledge, and business values to prepare them to enter the workplace and learning experiences to encourage self-development.

Goals:

  1. Quality Instruction: To promote learning that develops individual potential and produces competitive graduates for the workforce.
  2. Student Success: To prepare students for entry-level accounting-related occupations or for transfer to four-year institutions. To provide individuals with accounting skills for personal use or for upgrade of job skills and knowledge.
  3. Program and Curricula: To offer a curriculum that prepares graduates for the workplace and meets the needs of area employers.
  4. Technology: To produce students that can utilize current technology in the workplace.
  5. Professional Development: To produce students that can communicate effectively. To develop the critical, logical, and analytical abilities of students.

Program outcomes

  1. Understand appropriate application of computer technology to complete accounting functions.

  2. Apply analytical and logical skills to use information retrieval and technology to solve accounting problems. 

  3. Communicate effectively with others utilizing appropriate forms of communication methods.

  4.  Understand the application of the conceptual framework of accounting, generally accepted accounting principles, and current laws to financial information and understand the various practices of business.

  5. Interpret, analyze, and communicate financial and managerial information for decision-making purposes.

  6. Understand and create financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.


Program Accreditation: 
 This program is accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs.


Degree Awarded: 
Graduates of this program earn an Associate Degree in Business. In accordance with College policy, students must have an overall "C" average  (minimum 2.0 GPA) to graduate.

Special Requirement for Course Grades:
Students must earn a grade of "C" or better in all of the courses offered within the Business and Information Systems Technology departments for the grade to be counted towards graduation. Specifically, these include courses with the following prefixes: ACC, BAF, BUS, CPT, CRP, IST, LEG, MGT and MKT.

Program Plan:
The Accounting program consists of 69 semester credit hours. The curriculum addresses the general education core competencies adopted by MTC as the core of skills and knowledge that all of our graduates receive, including communication, mathematics, scientific method, individual or social behavior, computer and humanities. In addition, the following general education values and goals are integrated within the program curriculum: ethics, problem solving and critical thinking, research and information literacy, and technology literacy.

View a copy of the program plan.  View the course descriptions for accounting courses.
 

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