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WORKFORCE DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES Workforce Degrees and Certificates ACCOUNTING enrolled to obtain the Accounting Advanced Technical Certificate-CPA Exam Preparation The Accounting Associate of Applied Science and take no less than 24 semester hours of degree is designed to prepare students for accounting from LSCS toward meeting the occupations in the accounting profession. 30 semester hours. Contact the accounting Job responsibilities depend on the area of department at LSC-CyFair, LSC-Montgomery, specialization: public accounting, managerial LSC-North Harris, LSC-Tomball or LSC-Univer- accounting, corporate accounting, or govern- sity Park for specific information, advising, AND CERTIFICATES mental and nonprofit accounting. Accountants and recommended sequencing of courses. WORKFORCE DEGREES WORKFORCE DEGREES help individuals and businesses manage their money by setting up and maintaining account- Taxation Certificate Marketable Skills Award: ing systems, preparing budgets, studying This certificate provides short-term workforce company operations, performing audits, and training for students interested in attaining preparing government forms. They help man- advanced skills in taxation. agement plan and control company activities. Accounting Certificate: Because an associate Accounting graduates have a wide variety of degree can typically take at least two years to job opportunities available to them in industry, complete, this certificate provides workforce in governmental agencies, or in the public ac- training in accounting in a shorter period of counting sector. Beginning accountants usually time with fewer foundation classes. start as ledger accountants, internal auditors, or as trainees for technical accounting positions. The general education core courses and several individual accounting courses will transfer to The Associate of Applied Science degree is a variety of universities. Contact the counselor awarded for successful completion of 60–61 or faculty advisor at any college for specific credit hours as outlined. Students desiring a information and to obtain the recommended less comprehensive program should consider sequencing of courses. one of the accounting certificate programs also listed below. TAXATION CERTIFICATE Accounting Advanced Technical Certifi- MARKETABLE SKILLS AWARD cate-CPA Exam Preparation: The Texas State (MSC_TAXC certificate offered at LSC-CyFair, Board of Public Accountancy (TSBPA) awarded LSC-Montgomery, LSC-North Harris, LSC-Tomball Lone Star College System (LSCS) the designa- and LSC-University Park) tion to offer “Qualifying Educational Credit for FIRST YEAR the CPA Examination.” Thirteen of the LSCS First Semester accounting courses meet the TSBPA’s definition ACNT 1331 Federal Income Tax: Individual 3 ACCT 2401 Principles Of Accounting I 4 of upper-division accounting courses required Second Semester to take the CPA exam. This designation allows ACNT 1347 Federal Income Tax for Partnerships and individuals who have already earned a bacca- Corporations 3 laureate or higher degree from a recognized ACNT 1393 Special Topics in Taxation 3 educational institution to gain the thirty (30) TOTAL Credits for Taxation Certificate advanced accounting hours required to qualify Marketable Skills Award 13 for the CPA exam. The individual should be 118 LSCS Catalog 2014/2015 WORKFORCE DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES ACCOUNTING CERTIFICATE Second Semester SPCH 1315 Public Speaking OR 3 (C1_ACC1 certificate offered at LSC-CyFair, SPCH 1321 Business and Professional LSC-Montgomery, LSC-North Harris, LSC-Tomball Communication and LSC-University Park) Elective Humanities/Fine Arts1 3 Elective Outside Area of Specialization 3 FIRST YEAR Credit Elective Department approved2 3 First Semester Third Semester WORKFORCE DEGREES ACCT 2401 Principles Of Accounting I 4 ACNT 2304 Intermediate Accounting II 3 AND CERTIFICATES ACNT 1331 Federal Income Tax: Individual 3 ACNT 2331 Internal Control and Auditing3 3 BCIS 1305 Business Computer Applications 3 Second Semester TOTAL Credits for Accounting Associate ACNT 2303 Intermediate Accounting I 3 of Applied Science degree 60 ACCT 2402 Principles Of Accounting II 4 1 1 Choose from the AAS core Elective Department Approved 3–4 2 Third Semester Electives to be selected from: ACNT 1391, 1393, 1340, ACNT 2304 Intermediate Accounting II 3 2330, 2332, 2333, 2335, 2337, 2380 , 2381, BMGT ACNT 2309 Cost Accounting 3 1331, BUSI 1307, 2304, HRPO 2301, IBUS 1305, ITSW ACNT 2331 Internal Control and Auditing2 3 1404, ITSW 1407 . Other electives may be chosen with accounting department approval. TOTAL Credits for Accounting Certificate 29-30 3 Capstone course 1 Electives to be selected from ACNT 1340, 1347, 2335, 1393, 2330, 2332, 2333, 2337,2380, 2381, BUSI ACCOUNTING ADVANCED TECHNICAL 1301, 2301, 2304, ITSW 1404, 1407 Other electives may be chosen with accounting department CERTIFICATE-CPA EXAM PREPARATION approval. (C4_ACC4 certificate offered at LSC-CyFair, LSC- 2 Capstone course Montgomery, LSC-North Harris and LSC-Tomball) Prerequisite: Bachelor’s degree that includes ACCOUNTING the equivalent of ACCT 2401, ACCT 2402, Associate of Applied Science degree ECON 2301, ECON 2302 and BUSI 2301. If (AAS_ACCS degree offered at LSC-CyFair, these courses are not included in the bachelor’s LSC-Montgomery, LSC-North Harris, LSC-Tomball degree, they must be completed in order to be and LSC-University Park) admitted into the certificate program. FIRST YEAR First Semester FIRST YEAR ACCT 2401 Principles Of Accounting I 4 First Semester ACNT 1331 Federal Income Tax: Individual 3 ACNT 1331 Federal Income Tax: Individual 3 1 BCIS 1305 Business Computer Applications 3 Business Elective 3 PHED 1164 Introduction to Physical Fitness & Sport 1 ACNT 2303 Intermediate Accounting I 3 1 OR any one credit hour physical activity course Business Elective 3 Second Semester Second Semester ACCT 2402 Principles Of Accounting II 4 ACNT 1347 Federal Income Tax for ACNT 1347 Federal Income Tax for Partnerships and Partnerships and Corporations 3 Corporations 3 ACNT 2304 Intermediate Accounting II 3 1 BMGT 1327 Principles of Management 3 Business Elective 3 2 BUSI 2301 Business Law 3 ACNT 2345 Technical Writing for Accountants 3 Third Semester SECOND YEAR ENGL 1301 Composition & Rhetoric I 3 First Semester HRPO 1311 Human Relations OR 3 ACNT 2309 Cost Accounting 3 PSYC 2301 General Psychology ACNT 2330 Governmental and Not-For-Profit SECOND YEAR Accounting 3 3 First Semester ACNT 2333 Advanced Accounting 3 4 ACNT 2303 Intermediate Accounting I 3 ACNT 1393 Special Topics in Taxation OR 3 4 ACNT 2309 Cost Accounting 3 ACNT 2335 Financial Statement Analysis ECON 2301 Macro-economics OR 3 Second Semester 5 ECON 2302 Microeconomics Accounting Elective 3 MATH 1314 College Algebra 3 ACNT 1340 Accounting and Business Ethics 3 ACNT 2331 Internal Control and Auditing6 3 LSCS Catalog 2014/2015 119 WORKFORCE DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES Business Elective1 3 The Administrative Services Associate of TOTAL Credits for Accounting Advanced Applied Science degrees are awarded for Technical Certificate 48 successful completion of 62–65 credit hours 1 Choose business electives from the following: BMGT that include a common core of academic 1331, 1327, BUSI 2372, HRPO 2307, IBUS 1305, courses and a maximum selection of technical 2341, MRKG 1311, 2348 courses based upon specialization. 2 Meets the TSBPA’s requirements for a discrete (stand- alone) course in accounting communications or business The program offers six degree specializations: communications. administrative support, legal office, medical of- 3 Meets the two hour requirement in accounting research and analysis for the state board. fice, bookkeeping, communications specialist, 4 Meets the TSBPA’s requirements for a discrete (stand-alone) and global office. All options offer certificates course in accounting research and analysis. that build toward the degree. 5 Choose accounting electives from the following: ACNT 1391, 1393, 2332, 23372 Medical specialty only: Students will be re- AND CERTIFICATES 6 Capstone course quired to pay liability insurance during the WORKFORCE DEGREES WORKFORCE DEGREES semesters involving off-campus internships. At some facilities, students may be required to ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES show proof of immunizations such as Hepatitis The Administrative Services Associate of B, tuberculosis, tetanus, and MMR (mumps, Applied Science degree program provides measles, rubella). These costs are incurred students with the skills, knowledge, and atti- by the student. tudes needed for the current and future office The general education core will transfer to a environment. Skills include time manage- variety of colleges and universities, and the ment, human/customer relations, telephone degree will transfer in whole to some univer- techniques, administrative management, sities. Through articulation, some students information management, oral and written may have earned college credit while in high communications, word processing, spread- school. Contact a counselor, division advisor, sheets, database, presentation, document or faculty member at any college for specific layout, and Internet research. information about articulation and to obtain A wide variety of job opportunities are avail- the recommended sequencing of courses. able to program graduates in many types of offices. Jobs include office assistant, bilingual BUSINESS OPERATIONS ASSISTANT office receptionist, administrative assistant, (C1_BOA1 certificate offered at LSC-Kingwood, bookkeeper, medical office receptionist, med- LSC-North