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Accounting Technician Diploma

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Accounting Technician Diploma

Become the Financial Data Expert Everyone Trusts

You spend your days keeping track of important financial information. Your work helps with payroll, paying bills, and collecting money. You use the newest accounting software and Microsoft Office. Your coworkers rely on you for accurate and timely data.

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Accounting Technician Diploma At a Glance

Award

Diploma

Length of Study

9 months

Total Program Credits

Classes Meet

Daytime

Face-to-Face

Program Start

Fall

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100%

Faculty are CPAs

90%

Become Quickbooks certified

Your Accounting Technician Career

With an Accounting Technician diploma, you can look forward to a stable job and a rewarding career. Many of our graduates go on to work in roles like these:

Payroll
Accounts payable
Accounts receivable
Bookkeeper

Program Overview

Our leading industry curriculum and coursework will give you the skills and knowledge to prepare you for an accounting position. You learn:

Cost Accounting
Income Tax accounting
Financial Analysis
Advanced Excel data tools
Choose from 11 business electives

Stand out among your peers with a QuickBooks Certification. Our curriculum will help you to prepare for certification with an 80% average pass rate.

Semester 1 — Fall

Introduction to Accounting or
Financial Accounting
Introduction to Computers or
Information Computing
Payroll Accounting
The College Experience
Math course

Semester 2 — Spring

Accounting Spreadsheets
Composition I or
Written Communication in the Workplace
Computer Accounting
Fundamentals of Oral Communication
Introduction to Accounting II or
Managerial Accounting

Accounting Technician Electives

Business Ethics
Business Law
Business Statistics
Introduction to Business
Personal Finance
Principles of Macroeconomics
Principles of Management
Principles of Microeconomics
Small Business Management

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This program qualifies for the Future Ready Iowa Last-Dollar Scholarship and will pay up to 100% of your tuition.

You must apply for, be awarded, and meet the ongoing eligibility requirements for the Last-Dollar Scholarship.

These are just a few of the companies that hire graduates from this program:

Advanced Systems, Inc., Waterloo, IA
Isle Casino Hotel, Waterloo, IA
Lee Enterprises (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier), Waterloo, IA
McGladrey LLP, Waterloo, IA
Paul R. Nielsen Co., PC, Cedar Falls, IA
The Principal Financial Group, Waterloo, IA
Veridian Credit Union, Locations throughout Iowa

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Meet Your Instructor: Patrick Geer

“I love accounting and I love to teach! Working with students, watching them develop their problem-solving skills, and seeing the AHA moments is incredibly rewarding.”

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