Accounting - Saint Louis Community College - Forest Park

Accounting from Saint Louis Community College - Forest Park is a Campus Certificate Accountancy degree that prepares you for a Accounting career. Certificate of Proficiency in Accounting is a 37-credit-hour program for persons wishing to become accounting assistants or paraprofessionals. The program includes a strong accounting knowledge base and strong computer accounting skills. Accountants, accounting assistants and bookkeepers are important to any business because of their abilities to analyze, record, organize, summarize and interpret business information. They help businesses run efficiently by keeping records accurately, and ensuring that taxes and other payments are made on time. Accountants, auditors, accounting assistants and bookkeepers work for corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorships, not- for-profits and governments across the globe. Computers greatly have changed the way these professionals and paraprofessionals do their work. Recent changes in federal law, like the Sarbanes Oxley Act, have created new opportunities in the field of accounting. More than two million persons in the United States work as accounting assistants or bookkeepers. The most recent information from the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that jobs for accountants and auditors will grow faster than the average for all occupations through 2014 (an increase of 14-27%), while jobs for accounting assistants and bookkeepers will grow more slowly than the average for all occupations through 2014 (an increase of 0-8%). Persons interested in accounting should possess: Good computer skills Proficiency in commercial software View more details on Saint Louis Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Accountancy courses.