Accounting Technician Certificate

Contact Information:

Diane Bercier/Stephanie Bear, Instructors

(701) 477-7862/(701) 477-7859

Dbercier@tm.edu/sbear@tm.edu

Office 111D/111E

Program Description

This certificate program is designed to prepare students to enter the workforce in the field of accounting. Courses from the Accounting Technician Certificate will transfer to the Business Technology Management Associates of Applied Science Degree at TMCC.

Career Opportunities

With an Accounting Technician Certificate from TMCC you can seek employment doing entry- level bookkeeping. More experience can lead to jobs like accounts receivable or accounts payable clerk, payroll clerk or bookkeeper.

The Accounting Technician Certificate is also designed for someone who may already hold a degree, or who is looking to build their educational background and gain additional skills in the focused area.

A trained accounting technician must be detailed oriented, must be trustworthy, able to handle confidential records and banking deposits. They need excellent communication, math skills, technology skills, and should enjoy working with numbers and people. They must also have excellent time management, critical thinking and customer service skills. According to PayScale.com, an accounting clerk, or technician, can expect to earn around $30,000 a year, as of November 2010. The highest paid accounting technicians worked in the manufacturing and distributing industries and may earn upwards of $35,000 annually.

Required Courses

Required Courses

ACCT 102Fundamentals of Accounting

3

ACCT 161Internship

2

ACCT 200Elements of Accounting I

3

ACCT 201Elements of Accounting II

3

ACCT 212Payroll Accounting

3

ACCT 218Computer Applications in Business

3

BOTE 107Customer Service Strategies

3

BOTE 108Business Mathematics

3

BOTE 127Information Processing

3

BOTE 177Job Readiness

1

Related General education Courses

ENGL 105Technical Communications

3

Or

ENGL 110College Composition I

3

PSYC 100Human Relations in Organizations

3

Or

PSYC 111Introduction to Psychology

3

Total Credit Hours: 33