ACCTCRTU - Accounting
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Program Type
Undergraduate Certificate
College
Eller College of Management
Career
Undergraduate
Program Description
The Accounting Certificate Program for (non-Accounting) Eller College undergraduates. The accounting certificate helps students create value in any type of business, nonprofit or government organization. The program will broaden a student's learning experiences and professional opportunities by providing training in accounting topics and analysis.
Learning Outcomes
- Utilize the accounting equation and record journal entries to prepare a trial balance and then an income statement, statement of retained earnings, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows for a company.
- Explain critical areas of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and how these policies impact the financial statements.
- Analyze a company's financial position and performance using the reported financial statements and appropriate ratio analysis.
- Utilize cost-volume-profit and incremental analysis in business decisions.
- Utilize capital budgeting techniques in decision making.
- Understand the fundamentals of federal taxation under the current US tax code.
- Develop a framework to understand taxes and their relationship to business decisions and strategic planning.
- Explain critical areas of US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and how these policies impact the financial statements.
- Analyze a company's financial position and performance using the reported financial statements and appropriate ratio analysis.
- Utilize cost-volume-profit and incremental analysis in business decisions.
- Utilize capital budgeting techniques in decision making.
- Understand the fundamentals of federal taxation under the current US tax code.
- Develop a framework to understand taxes and their relationship to business decisions and strategic planning.