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First day of class January 5, 2012
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This is an e-learning class with no on-campus meetings.
This course provides an introductory study of the fundamental principles
of recording, summarizing and reporting the financial activities of a
business.
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 five days. The due date for the
orientation is January 10, 2011. If the orientation is not 100% complete
by the due date you will be withdrawn from the course.
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, reading lecture notes, viewing illustrations, completing
assignments in Word or Excel, responding to discussion questions, submitting
homework utilizing an online homework manager, and taking quizzes and
exams.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon successful completion of this course, students should
be able to:
- List and describe the basic assumptions, principles and modifiers
generally accepted in financial accounting, the objectives of financial
statements and the qualitative characteristics of accounting information.
- Prepare general journal entries, post to the ledger, complete worksheets,
and journalize adjusting, closing, and reversing entries.
- Prepare an income statement and statement of stockholders’ equity.
- Prepare a balance sheet and a statement of cash flows.
- Describe the time value of money for future and present value.
- Account and report for changing prices.
- Account for cash, short-term investments, and receivables.
- Account for liabilities and income taxes.
- Describe the problems of accounting and costing for inventories.
- Determine the cost inventories using various cost flow assumptions.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the special inventory procedures of
estimating inventories and computing dollar value LIFO.
- Account for the acquisition, use, and retirement of operational assets.
- Describe and apply generally accepted accounting methods of periodically
allocating fixed asset cost through the use of estimates.
- Account for intangible assets and deferred charges.
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. You should have
a working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel.
- 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 (which is sold in a custom bundle) is: Kieso, Weygandt
& Warfield Itermediate Accounting (13th edition). Included with the
text is the required access code to access WileyPlus
the homework management software. The custom bundle is available as either
a hard cover or three hole punched binder (there is no difference in the
material provided).
ISBN # 987-0-470-43726-1 Hard cover or ISBN # 978-0-470-42181-9 Three
hole punched binder.
To assure that you have the correct text and access code please purchase
your text at a BC bookstore.
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.
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