Accounting
Accounting students study the basic principles, concepts, and practices of the accounting cycle for a service business and a merchandising business. Topics covered include analyzing transactions, journalizing and posting entries, preparing payroll records and financial statements, and managing cash control systems. Business ethics and professional conduct are emphasized. Students learn fundamental accounting procedures. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.
Recommended prerequisite(s): Keyboarding or Digital Applications course(s) or teacher-approved demonstration and documentation of touch keyboarding skills.
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Course Sequences
A combination of this course and those below, equivalent to two 36-week courses, is a concentration sequence. Students wishing to complete a specialization may take additional courses based on their career pathways. A program completer is a student who has met the requirements for a CTE concentration sequence and all other requirements for high school graduation or an approved alternative education program.
- Accounting, Advanced (36 Weeks)
- Business Law (18 Weeks)
- Business Law (36 Weeks)
- Business Management (18 Weeks)
- Business Management (36 Weeks)
- Computer Information Systems (18 Weeks)
- Computer Information Systems (36 Weeks)
- Computer Information Systems, Advanced (18 Weeks)
- Computer Information Systems, Advanced (36 Weeks)
- Design, Multimedia, and Web Technologies (18 Weeks)
- Design, Multimedia, and Web Technologies (36 Weeks)
- Design, Multimedia, and Web Technologies, Advanced (18 Weeks)
- Design, Multimedia, and Web Technologies, Advanced (36 Weeks)
- Digital Applications (18 Weeks)
- Digital Applications (36 Weeks)
- Entrepreneurship (36 Weeks)
- Entrepreneurship, Advanced (36 Weeks)
- IB Business Management (36 Weeks)
- IB Digital Society I (36 Weeks)
- Legal Administration (18 Weeks)
- Legal Administration (36 Weeks)
- Medical Administration (18 Weeks)
- Medical Administration (36 Weeks)
- Office Administration (18 Weeks)
- Office Specialist III-Preparation (36 Weeks)
- Office Specialist II-Preparation (36 Weeks)
- Office Specialist I-Preparation (36 Weeks)
- Principles of Business and Marketing (18 Weeks)
- Principles of Business and Marketing (36 Weeks)
Industry Credentials (Only apply to 36-week courses)
- Accounting—Advanced Assessment
- Accounting—Basic Assessment
- Business Financial Management Assessment
- College and Career Readiness Assessment (CCRA+)
- College Level Examination Program (CLEP): Financial Accounting Examination
- IC3 Digital Literacy Certification Examinations
- Intuit Certified Bookkeeping Professional Examination
- Intuit Quickbooks Certified User (QBCU) Certification Test
- IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Tax Preparer Certification Examination
- National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC)
- Virtual Enterprise Certification Assessment
- Workplace Readiness Skills for the Commonwealth Examination
Career Clusters
| Pathway | Occupation |
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| Business Information Management |
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| Pathway | Occupation |
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| Accounting |
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| Banking Services |
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| Business Finance |
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| Securities & Investments |
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| Pathway | Occupation |
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| Foreign Service |
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| Governance |
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| National Security |
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| Planning |
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| Public Management & Administration |
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| Regulation |
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| Revenue & Taxation |
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| Pathway | Occupation |
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| Engineering & Technology |
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| Science & Mathematics |
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| Pathway | Occupation |
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| Sales & Service |
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