Accounting and Finance - Curriculum

The Accounting and Finance curriculum is designed to provide students with the knowledge and the skills necessary for employment and growth in the accounting and finance profession. Accountants and finance professionals assemble and analyze, process, and communicate essential information about financial operations.

Course work may include accounting, finance, ethics, business law, computer applications, financial planning, insurance, marketing, real estate, selling, and taxation. Related skills are developed through the study of communications, computer applications, financial analysis, critical thinking skills, and ethics.

Graduates should qualify for entry-level accounting and finance positions in many types of organizations including accounting firms, small businesses, manufacturing firms, banks, hospitals, school systems, and governmental agencies.

Curriculum Plans

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Diploma

Certificate

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Accounting and Finance - Program Outcomes

  1. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the nature of business and the functions of accounting.
  2. Students will demonstrate the ability to apply basic accounting principles, theories, and procedures for analyzing, recording, and reporting financial data.
  3. Students will demonstrate skills in financial analysis.
  4. Students will demonstrate a basic understanding of economic concepts and principles.
  5. Students will demonstrate the ability to make and defend ethical and legal decisions in a business setting.
  6. Students will demonstrate a basic understanding of organizational behavior and human resource management.
  7. Students will demonstrate a basic understanding of management in a globally interdependent, diverse business world.
  8. Students will demonstrate communication skills that include the abilities to read, comprehend, and analyze information; and to express ideas effectively through written and oral communications.
  9. Students will use computational skills to become sufficiently numerate to function as a member of society.
  10. Students will demonstrate technology skills including accessing and evaluating information, as well as communicating using technology.

Accounting and Finance - Contact

Joseph Reeves

Instructor - Accounting

reevesj@edgecombe.edu

Office 405, Havens Building, Tarboro Campus
(252) 618-6588