Memorial High School Business Education Dept.
Courses: Administrative Tech I & Accounting
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Administrative Technology I Course Description: As a student in this course, you will learn the most important topics of Microsoft Office 2016. Students will start with Word, followed by Excel, Access, and PowerPoint. On the way you’ll have Modules integrating all four applications together. Students are challenged to excel in these skills by composing, editing, and revising resumes, creating cover letters, agendas, minutes, sales proposals, flyers, budgets, tables, graphs, mass-mailings, financial plans, presentations, creating and maintaining databases, compiling and editing spreadsheets, and many more business administrative tasks.
Accounting Course Description:
At the completion of the course students will
- Complete and explain the purpose of the various steps in the accounting cycle
- Apply generally accepted accounting principles to determine the value of assets liabilities and owners equity
- Prepare, interpret, and analyze financial statements using manual and computerized systems for service, merchandising, and manufacturing businesses
- Apply appropriate accounting principles to payroll, income taxation, managerial systems, and various forms of ownership
- Use planning and control principles to evaluate the performance of an organization and apply differential analysis and present-value concepts to make decisions