Accounting

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Overview

Choose Bellingham Technical College’s Accounting program to prepare to get top accounting jobs. Employment choices are extensive in the high-demand field of accounting and financial jobs with this associate degree; you could work in a variety of office and business settings doing full-service bookkeeping, accounts receivable/payable, general ledgers, or payroll. If you’re good with numbers and have a high attention to detail, BTC’s associate degree Accounting Program will provide you a wide range of skills to use with top employers. Our graduates find bookkeeper and accountant jobs at wholesale firms and retail businesses; in local, state, and federal government; with service providers; and with health and education organizations.

Program Outcomes

After successfully completing this program, students will be able to:

• Use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for sole proprietorships to analyze and record business transactions and prepare financial statements for both a service and a merchandising business.
• Competently use an integrated accounting software program to record transactions and create financial reports and statements.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply payroll laws, compute payroll, record payroll entries and prepare federal and state forms that pertain to payroll.
• Use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for partnerships and corporations to analyze and record business transactions; prepare and evaluate financial statements.
• Interpret and apply managerial accounting information in various business decision-making roles.
• Use a spreadsheet program to solve business problems using formulas, functions, lists, and charts.
• Apply communication and interpersonal skills in a business environment while providing effective accounting support to an employer.

Program Entry Information

The program typically starts in Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer Quarters on a space available basis.

Testing Requirements

These requirements are for the AAS degree and are lower than those for the AAS-T degree. Please see the AAS-T Entry Page for AAS-T requirements.

• ACCUPLACER Arithmetic score of 50 or a C grade or better in MATH 090 .
• ACCUPLACER Reading Comprehension score of 71 or a C grade in RDG 085  
• ACCUPLACER Sentence Skills score of 71 or a C grade in ENGL 092  

Degree and Certificate Requirements

Accounting Degree and Certificate students must have a C in all degree classes (required and elective), but there is no minimum overall GPA expectation.

Programs

• Accounting, AAS

• Accounting, AAS-T

• Accounting Assistant Certificate

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