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Accounting

Potomac College is an Accredited College that offers a two-year Associate’s Degree in accounting courses that will prepare you for a para-professional accounting position, assisting in auditing and tax preparation.This program enables students to develop the necessary skills required to analyze transactions, prepare journal entries, and post to the ledgers.

Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks are an organization’s financial record keepers. They update and maintain one or more accounting records, including those which tabulate expenditures, receipts, accounts payable and receivable, and profit and loss. They represent a wide range of skills and knowledge from full-charge bookkeepers who can maintain an entire company’s books to accounting clerks who handle specific accounts.

Students will be able to summarize the financial information by preparing and interpreting financial statements to assist in management decision-making. Accounting students can obtain employment as a bookkeeper, an accounts receivable clerk, and other entry-level business positions.

For more information regarding our Accounting Associate degree, please fill out this form.
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According to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks held more than 2 million jobs in 2004. They are found in all industries and at all levels of government. Local government and the accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services industry are among the individual industries employing the largest numbers of these clerks.

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