2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Oct 05, 2024  
2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog
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ACCT 131 QuickBooks (5 credits)



Prerequisite ACCT 101  or ACCT& 201  with at least a 2.0 grade.

Course Description
A foundational course in processing business transactions using QuickBooks software. Course covers creating and working with company files, transaction processing and banking.

Course Content
A. Introduction and tour of QuickBooks software
B. Customizing a chart of accounts
C. Customer file creation and modifications
D. Vendor file creation and modifications
E. Record sales transactions
F. Banking activities

Student Outcomes
  1. Navigate QuickBooks files.
  2. Customize QuickBooks files for individual businesses.
  3. Process daily business transactions in QuickBooks.
  4. Create financial reports for businesses using QuickBooks functions.


Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Use computer and related tools to perform financial reports and management reports.

Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

Potential Methods
1. Multiple choice exam
2. Computational exam
3. Group assignments
4. In-class assignment
5. Short written answers
6. Matching questions
7. Homework assignments
8. Classroom observation
9. Written individual solutions to problems
10. Oral individual solutions to problems
11. Comprehensive problem
12. Case studies



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