Certificate in Small Business & Accounting
Class time: Wednesdays from 8:30am to 5:30pm
Number of months to complete the program: 9
Job Placement Assistance: Yes
Total Credits to complete program: 36
Price per Credit: $150.00
Total Price for this Program: $5400.00
International Student (I-20) Approved
* Not CPT / OPT Approved

Course Description & Academic Competencies
This program integrates foundational to intermediate-level accounting and bookkeeping skills, requiring no prior experience. Students will gain practical, job-ready knowledge through hands-on training, mastering real-world applications in financial record-keeping, payroll, QuickBooks, and more.

Designed for adult learners, this program prepares students for entry and mid-level roles such as:

• • Accounting Clerk
  • Bookkeeper
  • Accounts Payable/Receivable Specialist
  • Payroll Administrator

Key focus areas include:

✔ General accounting principles
✔ Manual & computerized bookkeeping (QuickBooks)
✔ Financial statement preparation
✔ Payroll processing & tax compliance
✔ Professional work habits & office skills

Completion Requirements:

• • 90%+ attendance

• • 75%+ cumulative GPA

• • Full completion of practice sets

• • 75%+ score on two final exams

Instructional Methods:

• • Lectures & Multimedia

• • Hands-on Practice Sets (Manual & QuickBooks)

• • Quizzes, Tests & Exercises

• • Real-world simulations (invoices, bank recs, payroll, etc.)

 

• • Keyboarding & 10-key proficiency training (40 WPM, 100% accuracy)