Accounting Paraprofessional AAS Degree

Accounting Paraprofessional AAS (Direct-to-Work)

This degree focuses on preparing you for a career in the field of accounting. By working closely with local industry leaders, the coursework focuses on providing you with technical skills that businesses require for entry-level job candidates. Our graduates start their careers as accounting technicians, bookkeepers, tax preparers and clerks in processing accounts payable, accounts receivable and payroll. Although the program is designed to put you to work immediately after graduation, the degree also prepares you for advanced studies in the field at the university level. Credits will transfer on a course-by-course basis and will vary by institution.

Degree Requirements

This program prepares you to work as an accounting paraprofessional or accounting assistant.

Required Courses

ACC 1011	Intro to Financial Accounting	3
ACC 1012	Intro to Managerial Accounting	3
ACC 1031	Income Tax	3
ACC 1032	Tax Help Colorado	2
ACC 1033	Tax Help Colorado Practicum	1
ACC 1035	Spreadsheet Applications for Accounting	3
ACC 1038	Payroll and Sales Tax	3
ACC 2045	Computerized Accounting with a Professional Package	3
CIS 1018	Intro PC Applications	3
BUS 1015	Introduction to Business	3
BUS 1016	Personal Finance	3
BUS 2016	Legal Environment of Business	3
BUS 2017	Business Communications	3
Total Credit Hours:		36

Faculty advisor-approved electives

ACC, BUS, MAN, MAR, SBM

Total Credit Hours:

8

General Education Courses (16 credits)

Required Courses

ENG 1021	English Composition I: CO1	3
	or
ENG 1031	Technical Writing I: CO1	3
	or
ENG 1022	English Composition II: CO2	3
	or
ENG 2001	English Composition III: GT-CO3	3
MAT 1320	Finite Mathematics: GT-MA1	4
	or
MAT 1340	College Algebra: GT-MA1	4
	or
MAT 1400	Survey of Calculus: GT-MA1	4
	or
	a higher level Calculus course
Total Credit Hours:		7

Choose from TWO of the following three areas (6 credits):

Arts and Humanities (1000 and above)

ARA, ART, ASL, FRE, GER, HUM, ITA, JPN, LIT, MUS, PHI, RUS, SPA, THE

Natural and Physical Sciences (1000 and above)

AST, BIO, CHE, ENV, GEY, MET, PHY, SCI

Social and Behavioral Sciences (1000 and above)

ARG, ANT, ECO, GEO, GIS, HIS, POS, PSY, SOC

AND

Choose an additional 3 credits from any of the above prefixes

 

Total Credit Hours:

9

Total Credit Hours: 16

Total Credit Hours: 60