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2026-2027 Catalog 
    
2026-2027 Catalog

Accounting, AAS


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LOCATIONS:

Bloomington - Columbus - Evansville - Fort Wayne - Indianapolis - Kokomo - Lafayette - Lake County - Lawrenceburg - Madison - Marion - Muncie - Richmond - Sellersburg - South Bend/Elkhart - Terre Haute - Valparaiso

ALSO AVAILABLE STATEWIDE VIA DISTANCE EDUCATION

GENERAL EDUCATION CORE


Choose 3 credits from the following:


REQUIREMENT TOTAL: 19


REQUIREMENT TOTAL: 35


STATEWIDE ELECTIVES


Choose 6 credits from the following:

  • AOLS 1XX - 2XX Applied Organizational Leadership Studies Elective(s) CREDIT HOURS 0-6
  • ACCT 1XX - 2XX  Accounting Elective(s)  CREDIT HOURS: 0-6
  • BUSN 1XX - 2XX Business Administration Elective(s) CREDIT HOURS 0-6
  • BOAT 1XX - 2XX Business Operations and Applications Technology Elective(s) CREDIT HOURS 0-6
  • CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
  • OTEC 1xx-2xx Office Administration and Technology Elective(s) CREDIT HOURS 0-6

  • or CINS 101 Credits / Units: 3

  • CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
  • CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3
  • ENTR 1XX - 2XX Entrepreneurship Elective(s) CREDIT HOURS 0-6
  • LOGM 1XX - 2XX Logistics and Supply Chain Elective(s) CREDIT HOURS 0-6
  • MKTG 1XX - 2XX Marketing Elective(s) CREDIT HOURS 0-6
  • CREDIT HOURS MIN: 3

REQUIREMENT TOTAL: 6


TOTAL CREDITS: 60


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^ Capstone Course

DEGREE OUTCOMES


  • Analyze a set of financial transactions by classifying and recording them in conformity to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) or IRS guidelines.
  • Evaluate the financial statements of a company by identifying positive trends, potential errors, and/or fraud to justify conclusions based on relevant accounting principles.
  • Integrate professional ethics surrounding the reporting and disclosure of financial information.
  • Validate the use of traditional cost accounting concepts such as cost flows, product costing, variance analysis, budget process, decision-making performance analysis, and responsibility accounting.
  • Create tax returns within tax software by utilizing tax knowledge including concepts of taxation, procedural rules and their application, and tax planning practices. 
  • Integrate accounting technology and software to record income and expenses and to analyze the financial health of the company.
  • Analyze employee payroll data for a given pay period to produce an accurate payroll register and reconcile all federal and state withholding taxes, employer taxes, and other payroll deductions.

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