AA/AS in Accounting and Related Services

This associate degree teaches core accounting practices for many workplaces and appeals to students who like working with figures. Subjects span financial and cost accounting, taxes, payroll, government and nonprofit accounting, and accounting software. Courses prepare students to sit for the QuickBooks certification from Intuit and for a Microsoft Excel specialist test. A bookkeeper trainee certificate and an accounting assistant diploma are earned along the way to the 61-credit degree. Students do well when they can organize complicated data and calculate quickly and precisely. The page says qualified applicants remain in demand. Study is available online and in person, at four campuses, beginning in August or January. Students can stop at the bookkeeper trainee certificate or the assistant diploma and return later to complete the full degree.