Accounting

Business

A.A.S. Degree (D,G,W)

As a graduate of the Accounting program at Delaware Tech, you will use your strong accounting skills along with communication, computation, and interpersonal skills on the job every day. Your degree will open the door to many different career paths in accounting. Graduates are employed as general staff accountants for business and industry, and frequently enter the areas of auditing, tax accounting, and cost accounting.

Program Graduate Competencies

The Program Graduate Competencies listed below identify the major learning goals related to your specific program of study and identify the knowledge and skills you will have when you graduate to be successful in your chosen field.

1. Prepare and analyze financial statements in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
2. Analyze data to process information for decision-making under a product and job costing system.
3. Apply tax laws to the preparation of tax returns and to tax plans.
4. Integrate professional, ethical, and legal standards into business practice.
5. Employ the various theories of management and marketing in a business.

Core Curriculum Competencies

The Core Curriculum Competencies listed below identify what you will be able to do as a graduate, regardless of your program of study. You will acquire these core competencies through general education courses and program-specific coursework. You will be expected to use relevant technology to achieve these outcomes:

1. Apply clear and effective communication skills.
2. Use critical thinking to solve problems.
3. Collaborate to achieve a common goal.
4. Demonstrate professional and ethical conduct.
5. Use information literacy for effective vocational and/or academic research.
6. Apply quantitative reasoning and/or scientific inquiry to solve practical problems.

Graduation Requirements

Core Courses

ECO 111	Macroeconomics	3
ECO 122	Microeconomics	3
ENG 101	Composition I	3
ENG 102	Composition II	3
MAT 152	Quantitative Reasoning	3
SSC 100	First Year Seminar	1

Program/Major Courses

ACC 101	Accounting I	3
ACC 112	Accounting II	3
ACC 211	Tax Accounting I	3
ACC 221	Cost Accounting	3
ACC 231	Intermediate Accounting I	3
ACC 232	Intermediate Accounting II	3
BUS 203	Business Law	3
BUS 275	Portfolio and Professionalism	3
MGT 212	Principles of Management	3
FIN 221	Money and Banking	3
	Or
ACC 162	Computerized Accounting	3

Program/Major Support Courses

BUS 101	Introduction to Business	3
CIS 107	Introduction to Computers/Application	3
MIS 220	Management Information Systems	3
MKT 212	Principles of Marketing	3
OAT 152	Excel	3

Suggested Pathway to Graduation (Course Sequence Sheet)

Semester 1

SSC 100	First Year Seminar	1
ACC 101	Accounting I	3
BUS 101	Introduction to Business	3
CIS 107	Introduction to Computers/Application	3
ENG 101	Composition I	3
MAT 152	Quantitative Reasoning	3

Semester 2

ACC 112	Accounting II	3
OAT 152	Excel	3
ECO 111	Macroeconomics	3
ENG 102	Composition II	3
MGT 212	Principles of Management	3

Semester 3

ACC 211	Tax Accounting I	3
ACC 231	Intermediate Accounting I	3
ECO 122	Microeconomics	3
MKT 212	Principles of Marketing	3
MIS 220	Management Information Systems	3

Semester 4

ACC 232	Intermediate Accounting II	3
ACC 221	Cost Accounting	3
BUS 203	Business Law	3
FIN 221	Money and Banking	3
	Or
ACC 162	Computerized Accounting	3
BUS 275	Portfolio and Professionalism	3

To complete program requirements, you must pass the above courses and earn at least 61 credits. The number of courses and credits required for graduation may be more depending on your need for developmental education courses and the elective choices you make (if electives are a part of the program). Some programs also have college-level courses that you must take if you do not score at a certain level on the College Placement Test. If this applies to your program, the courses are listed at the top of the sequence sheet before the first semester of the course list.

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