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Cossatot Community College |
Accounting Course Added to Evening Schedule at CCCUA
13 December 2004
DE QUEEN – Bill Taylor, Chair of the Division of Business and Agriculture and Accounting instructor at Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas, announced today that Accounting Principles I will be offered as an early evening course for the spring 2005 semester. The class will be offered via the College’s interactive video system, from 5:30 to 6:50 Mondays and Wednesdays. As instructor, Taylor will rotate among the three CCCUA sites where the class will be offered. A former practicing CPA and former owner of his own small retail grocery business for 19 years, he says the class will stress accounting theory and its practical, day-to-day business application.
Taylor added, “We’re doing this in an effort to make courses accessible to all students, including small business owners.” He described the course as one that “introduces financial accounting principles and concepts to include measurement, recording, and evaluation of basic business transactions.” He noted that students will learn to analyze, journalize, and post transactions, including adjusting and closing entries and composing and preparing Income Statements, Equity Statements, and Balance Sheets. The accounting standards known as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles will be emphasized throughout the course.
“Upon successful completion of this course, students will have a very good understanding of how a business accounting system functions, and how financial statements are prepared. They will also be introduced to the accounting concepts of internal control, bank reconciliation, deprecation, inventory accounting, and accounting information systems,” Taylor concluded.
Cossatot Community College offers both technical certification and Associate’s degrees in a wide range of fields on its campus at De Queen, at extension sites at Nashville and Ashdown, and at cccua.edu. It has an enrollment of more than 1,000 students, and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
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