Course Number: BK097
Course Title: Computerized Bookkeeping

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

General

This course is designed to allow the students to apply the acquired manual skills in recording business transactions through the use of computerized accounting software to perform basic business accounting functions. It prepares students for employment in today's office by providing them with bookkeeping and computer skills. The course helps students gain a working familiarity with computers in business for them to understand the basic principles of Computerized Bookkeeping as compared to manual application of Bookkeeping.

Specific

The student will be able to:

1. Define how computer technology can be used to automate an accounting system.
2. Identify the hardware requirements needed to run accounting software.
3. Identify and sort input forms to record data into the computer. e.g., chart of accounts, payroll.
4. Analyze business transactions in service and merchandising types of business.
5. Record business transactions in journals, differentiate appropriate journals for recording specific business transactions.
6. Compute timesheet and prepare payroll.
7. Prepare balance sheet and income statement using the computerized systems, and identify the differences as compared to manual preparation.
8. Perform the organization and retrieval of information on a computer.