South Central Technical College

South Central College Accounting Advisory Committee Minutes September 30, 2011

The Accounting Department Advisory Committee met on November 30, 2011 at Noon

The following people were present:

Members Present:

Vince Small Jill Gates Jacqueline Krenske Rita Petrie Danielle Hager Karen Snorek Keith Steffenhagen Mary Canaday

Members Absent: David Ewert Jim Kuphal Joel Schmidt Carla Brady Jennifer Schwartz Paul Kubal Patrick Justin Bonnie Orht Jared Kegler Deborah Quaale Brad Breyer Joan Stieg Barb Kunz Tiffany Tillman Jessie Samuelson Kathleen Jansen Christopher Newman

Others Present: Dave Hammit Jodi Olson Brian Fors Al Bronnenberg

The meeting began with a presentation by Doug Yentsch requesting ideas from the committee as to marketing the accounting program. The members came up with several ideas, including, but not limited to using ads in job search engines, posting an ad in the I- 35 corridor magazine and the Connect magazine in addition to the “want-ads” in the area papers. It was stressed that there needs to be an internet presence, not just print items. The instructors will work with our marketing rep to initiate a plan to incorporate the suggestions and recommendations of the advisory committee.

Jodi Olson presented the current Operational Plan to the committee and the committee thought it was thorough and comprehensive.

Dave Hammitt updated the advisory committee on the final recommendations of the Program Review and the committee indicated that all recommendations were applicable.

Al Bronnenberg presented the proposed curriculum change for the Fraud accounting class, moving from 3 credits to 4 credits and incorporating a portion for auditing from the receiving side as the addition of content. The committee was in full agreement of all the proposed changes to the Fraud Accounting course, including the name change.

Al Bronnenberg also presented the proposed curriculum change for the Payroll accounting class, moving from 2 credits to 3 credits and incorporating a portion for completing a payroll cycle via a computerized accounting system, such as Quick Books as the addition of content. The committee was in full agreement of all the proposed changes to the Payroll Accounting course.

Due to the restructuring of the Fraud and Payroll accounting courses, it was proposed to the committee that Ethics be dropped from the program and leave a one credit option available to the students. Brian Fors mentioned that the Capstone course in the LAS offering would be an applicable choice and after describing the course, the committee was in unanimous agreement to drop the Ethics course from the Accounting programs.

Al Bronnenberg informed the committee that there would be an email sent, in the near future, to all the advisory members regarding By-laws that will need to be approved by the committee and that the committee will be able to vote on those by-laws by proxy.

The meeting was adjourned at 12:55pm.