# Accounting (ACTV) (ACTV) courses

Santa Barbara City College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 7 courses

Source: https://catalog.sbcc.edu/sel/career-skills/

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026, Spring 2027.

### ACTV NC001 — Setting up QuickBooks for Small Business

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 16 (16 lecture)
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/santa-barbara-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/actv.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/santa-barbara-city-college/schedule/spring-2027/actv.md)

Accounting fundamentals - Learn the basics of small business bookkeeping using QuickBooks, financial reporting, and how to analyze and record financial transactions. Discuss accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll procedures, sales taxes and common banking activities. Course restricted to 98 repetitions

### ACTV NC002 — Monthly Procedures using QuickBooks

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 16 (16 lecture)
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/santa-barbara-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/actv.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/santa-barbara-city-college/schedule/spring-2027/actv.md)

Develop and apply monthly procedures used in accounting for small business. Continue to build small business accounting knowledge, gain practical experience working with day-to-day transactions. Reconcile balance sheet accounts and examine/audit income statement accounts on a monthly basis. Prepare adjusting journal entries. Prepare financial statements. Course restricted to 98 repetitions

### ACTV NC003 — Year End Procedures

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 16 (16 lecture)
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/santa-barbara-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/actv.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/santa-barbara-city-college/schedule/spring-2027/actv.md)

Develop and apply year-end procedures used in accounting for small business. Prepare closing journal entries for year-end. Prepare reports for tax accountant. Purge files and prepare for the new year. Course restricted to 98 repetitions

### ACTV NC101 — Introduction to Accounting Basics 1

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 15 (15 lecture)
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/santa-barbara-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/actv.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/santa-barbara-city-college/schedule/spring-2027/actv.md)

Learn the basics of accounting for a small business, including financial reporting, analyzing and recording financial transactions. Understand the concept of keeping the accounting equation in balance with a double-entry system using debits and credits. Discuss accounts receivable, accounts payable and the accounting cycle. Course restricted to 98 repetitions

### ACTV NC102 — Introduction to Accounting Basics 2

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 12 (12 lecture)
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/santa-barbara-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/actv.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/santa-barbara-city-college/schedule/spring-2027/actv.md)

Discuss and apply the accounting fundamentals learned from Accounting Basics 1 and how they apply to cost of goods sold and sales tax. Prepare bank, credit card and loan statement reconciliations. Discuss petty cash and implement payroll integration. Course restricted to 98 repetitions

### ACTV NC214 — Exploring IRS Enrolled Agent Work

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 8 (8 lecture)
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules

The student explores the work of an IRS enrolled agent and studies the requirements for the profession, including the Special Enrollment Examination, how to maintain enrolled agent status, and Circular 230 regulatory requirements. Course restricted to 98 repetitions

### ACTV NC215 — Fundamentals of Income Tax

- **Units:** 0
- **Hours:** 72 (72 lecture)
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/santa-barbara-city-college/schedule/fall-2026/actv.md)

Covers practical information on Federal and California income tax law as it relates to individuals and small businesses (proprietorships, partnerships, corporation and fiduciary entities). Course restricted to 98 repetitions