Course Preview Page - ACG2450C Computerized Accounting Applications

Reference # 414728

First day of class: August 18, 2011

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This is an e-learning class with no on-campus meetings. This course is designed to teach the students how to accomplish common accounting functions with basic accounting software in order to set up, maintain, and establish defaults for chart of accounts, vendors, customers, inventory items, jobs, and employees.

ONLINE ORIENTATION

All students must complete the online orientation which is available after you log into the course. Students must log in on the first day of the course. You must purchase the text book at an on campus BC bookstore prior to starting the orientation. Do not buy your book online. You must complete the orientation within two to four days of the start of the class depending on the semester. The specific due date for the orientation will be provided when you log in.

METHODS OF INSTRUCTION

This is a 3-credit hour course. Normally, a three-credit hour course would meet twice each week for a total of 3 hours per week or 48 hours per term. In this class, we will meet totally online. Various tasks must be completed to achieve the learning objectives for this course they include, but are not limited to: reading the text, viewing PowerPoint presentations, completing assignments in Word or Excel, responding to discussion questions, submitting homework utilizing an online homework manager, and taking quizzes.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate the ability to complete daily vendor transactions using basic accounting software.
• Demonstrate knowledge in completing daily customer transactions using basic accounting software.
• Demonstrate the ability to set up initial payroll fields and enter employee and employer default information using basic accounting software.
• Demonstrate the ability to perform monthly, quarterly and annual financial statement reconciliation and analysis using basic accounting software.
• Complete a comprehensive project for a business, which demonstrates computer proficiency with basic accounting software.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Please make sure that you can meet the following requirements before you sign-up for this course:

• All exams will be given at home online. Actual dates and times will be provided in your syllabus.
• Homework assignments will be turned in online. There will be assignments that must be prepared using Microsoft Word and Excel and QuickBooks Pro 2011. You should have a working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel. A fully working 140 day trial copy of QuickBooks Pro 2011 is included with your text when you purchase it at a BC bookstore.
• All work must be completed by the posted due dates. Late submissions will not be accepted.
• Is Online for You? Please click here to take an online readiness evaluation.
• Please click here to confirm you have the required hardware and software. High speed internet access is preferred but not required. There will be some audio files that you will want to listen to that will require downloading.
• Important! You must enable the pop-up feature for your browser. If you are using Netscape or Internet Explorer, you will not be able to take the quizzes unless this feature is enabled.

COURSE MATERIALS

The required text is QuickBooks Pro 2011: Comprehensive with 140-day Trial Software By Trisha Hakola
ISBN-13: 978-1-59136-386-6
IMPORTANT: You must have the text on the first day of class. Please plan accordingly.

HOW TO REGISTER FOR THIS COURSE

Please register for course using myBC website . Students must pay for the course before they will be able to log into the course.

HOW TO ACCESS THE COURSE ONCE YOU ARE ENROLLED

You will be able to login on the first day of the session. Please understand that the only people who will be permitted to login are those students who have registered and paid for the course. There may be a delay of up to 24 hours from when a student registers and pays before Blackboard login is activated.

• Obtain BC email user ID and PIN code before attempting to login to Blackboard.
• At the BC email address site, click on "ID Lookup", then enter your Student# (or INTL Student ID#) and PIN code (2 digit birth month and 2 digit year). Write down your email ID (not the @mail.broward.edu part), which is your Blackboard User Name.
• Your Blackboard User Name is the same as your BC email ID.
• Your Blackboard password is the same as your BC email PIN code.