{
  "college": "golden-west-college",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "departmentName": "Accounting",
  "id": "accounting--staff-accountant-cert-achieve",
  "name": "Staff Accountant",
  "award": "Certificate of Achievement",
  "department": "accounting",
  "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.cccd.edu/golden-west/pathways/business/accounting/staff-accountant-cert-achieve/",
  "blocks": [
    {
      "kind": "text",
      "markdown": "This Staff Accountant Certificate of Achievement provides a collective study of financial and managerial accounting principles to prepare students for employment opportunities in general accounting, accounts receivable, and accounts payable.\n\n#### Program Learning Outcomes\n\n1.  Process business transactions into an accounting information system.\n2.  Prepare accrual-basis financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.\n3.  Interpret financial statements to assess an organization's operational performance, profitability, financial condition, liquidity, solvency, and ability to generate future cash flows.\n4.  Perform a variety of financial ratios and variance analysis metrics to facilitate management decision making.\n5.  Operate primary systems and applications used in accounting.\n\n#### Potential careers students may enter upon completion are as follows:\n\n-   Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerk\n-   Accountants and auditor\n-   Budget analyst\n-   Billing and account collector\n-   Billing and posting clerk"
    },
    {
      "kind": "text",
      "markdown": "### Requirements\n\nReview Graduation Requirements and Program Maps."
    },
    {
      "kind": "courselist",
      "rows": [
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Required Courses"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ACCT G101",
          "title": "Financial Accounting",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ACCT G102",
          "title": "Managerial Accounting",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ACCT G105",
          "title": "Excel for Accounting and Finance",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ACCT G120",
          "title": "QuickBooks Accounting I",
          "units": "2",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ACCT G211",
          "title": "Intermediate Accounting 1",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "total",
          "text": "Total Units",
          "units": "16"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}