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Accounting Technician 9-Month Certificate

Accounting Technician 9-Month Certificate

Program Description

This certificate program is designed to prepare students to enter the workforce in the field of accounting. Courses from the Accounting Technician Certificate will transfer to the Business Technology Management Associates of Applied Science Degree at TMC.

Career Opportunities

With an Accounting Technician Certificate from TMC you can seek employment doing entry- level bookkeeping. More experience can lead to jobs like accounts receivable or accounts payable clerk, payroll clerk or bookkeeper.

The Accounting Technician Certificate is also designed for someone who may already hold a degree, or who is looking to build their educational background and gain additional skills in the focused area.

A trained accounting technician must be detailed oriented, must be trustworthy, able to handle confidential records and banking deposits. They need excellent communication, math skills, technology skills, and should enjoy working with numbers and people. They must also have excellent time management, critical thinking and customer service skills. According to PayScale.com, an accounting clerk, or technician, can expect to earn around $30,000 a year, as of November 2010. The highest paid accounting technicians worked in the manufacturing and distributing industries and may earn upwards of $35,000 annually.

Required Courses

  • Course ID

    Course Title

    Credits

  • ACCT 102

    Fundamentals of Accounting

    3

  • ACCT 161

    Internship

    2

  • ACCT 200

    Elements of Accounting I

    3

  • ACCT 201

    Elements of Accounting II

    3

  • ACCT 212

    Payroll Accounting

    3

  • ACCT 218

    Computer Applications in Business

    3

  • BOTE 107

    Customer Service Strategies

    3

  • BOTE 108

    Business Mathematics

    3

  • BOTE 127

    Information Processing

    3

  • BOTE 177

    Job Readiness

    1

Related General Education Courses

  • Course ID

    Course Title

    Credits

  • ENGL 105

    Technical Communications

    3

  • or

  • ENGL 110

    College Composition I

    3

  • PSYC 100

    Human Relations in Organizations

    3

  • or

  • PSYC 111

    Introduction to Psychology

    3

Total Credit Hours: 33