Computerized Bookkeeping

This certificate wil prepare students to work as bookkeepers, general accounting clerks, or payroll clercks. The graduates will have the skills to maintain payroll, recievable, cash, and payable by journalizing, posting, and transaction recording and reporting. 

As the certificate proposed is a new certificate, no integrated data regarding the projected numbers of graduates is currently available. However, based on the high demand for our currently offered CAOT 78, CAOT 82, and CAOT 85, we project to have a minimum of 17 completers per each academic year.

Verify, journalize, and post accounting transactions

Use productivity software to communicate with the clients regarding documentation, reporting, and records maintenance

Create trial balance, income statement, balance sheet, and other accounting and financial statements

Perform complete accounting cycles

Perform journalizing and posting for different journals including cash, receivables, and payables

Calculate and post adjustments for depreciation, supplies, and wages

Calculate and post payroll information, including deductions and payables

Use electronic spreadsheet software to calculate and report accounting transactions

The Computerized Bookkeeping program consists of 6 courses to accumulate the total certificate units. These courses will prepare completes on how  to function as general bookkeeping professionals working in an accounting setting. Completers will perform different aspects of the accounting cycle including journalizing, posting, trial balance adjustments, income statement, cash flow analysis and balance sheet analysis. Other tasks include payroll, inventory evaluation, payable and receivables.

Requirements	Subject #	Title	Units	Sequence
Required Core 6 courses	CAOT 2	Computer Keyboarding and Document Applications 2	3	Yr. 1 Fall
	CAOT 32	Business Communication	3	Yr. 1 Fall
	CAOT 37	Introduction to Bookkeeping	3	Yr. 1 Fall
	CAOT 43	Office Procedures	3	Yr. 1 Fall
	CAOT 78	MicrocomputerAccounting Applications-Quickbooks	3	Yr. 1 Spring
	CAOT 85	MicrocomputerAccounting Applications- Spreadsheet	3	Yr. 1 Spring
			Required Major Units Total 18

 

This certificate will complement the other certificates in the CAOT discipline

Computerized Bookkeeping is at Los Angeles City College

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