Accountants play an essential role in keeping businesses within their budgets, and this program offers real-world application of skills related to private accounting, institutional accounting, certified public accounting, and other career opportunities within the private and public sectors. Merritt College Accounting program prepares students for employment in a wide variety of business accounting environments. A Certificate of Achievement will be awarded upon satisfactory completion of the certificate requirements specified below.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Private accounting, institutional accounting, CPA, bank officer, consumer credit officer, financial analyst, financial planner, loan officer, insurance analyst, investment account executive.

PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon successful completion of this program students will be able to:

🗸 Apply knowledge of financial accounting, including content, concepts and structure of the various statements for internal and external use.
🗸 Evaluate the process of identifying, gathering, measuring, summarizing and analyzing financial data in business organizations.