Accounting

Certificate

Accounting is one of the largest fields of professional employment. Accountants specialize in auditing, tax work, cost accounting, budgeting, and systems and procedures, in the public and private sectors. The A.A.S. degree lets you begin your career immediately upon graduation. Although it is not designed for transfer, some students do transfer to four-year colleges and universities.

Career Opportunities
Transfer Options
Program Requirements
Faculty

Career Opportunities

Typical positions filled by recent accounting graduates fall in the areas of accounting, budget analysis, controlling, financial analysis, billing, public accounting, and management.

Graduates of the accounting program have been placed with many area firms, including Borg-Warner Automotive; Ciaschi, Dietershagen, Little, and Mikelson; Cornell University; Cortland Memorial Hospital; Monarch Machine Tool Co. ; Pall Trinity Micro Corporation; The CBORD Group, Inc. ; Tompkins County; and Tompkins Trust Company.

Transfer Options

Based on placement survey data over the past four years, 13 percent of accounting graduates have transferred to four-year institutions, primarily in accounting or business administration.

Recent graduates have continued their education at a four-year college or university. Transfer institutions include:

For specific transfer information, contact the counseling and career services office and the coordinator of transfer services.

Certification Program Requirements

Requirements			Credits
ACCT	101	Principles of Accounting I	4
ACCT	102	Principles of Accounting II	2
ACCT	120	Accounting on Microcomputers	3
ACCT	203	Intermediate Accounting I	4
ACCT	204	Intermediate Accounting II	4
ACCT	205	Cost Accounting	4
ACCT	207	Income Taxation	4
ACCT	208	Auditing	4
BUAD	101	Business Communications*	3
BUAD	104	Business Mathematics	3
BUAD	106	Foundations of Business	3
BUAD	201	Business Law	3
CAPS	111	Introduction to Word Processing	1
CAPS	121	Introduction to Spreadsheets	1
CAPS	131	Introduction to Databases	1
ECON	101	Introduction to Economics	3
Total			49

*While ENGL 101 is not a required course for this certificate, it is a prerequisite for BUAD 101. Students are strongly advised to take ENGL 101 prior to registering for BUAD 101.

Faculty

ThankGod Imo

Associate Professor (Accounting)

B.S. , Jackson State University; M.P.A. , Jackson State University.

David Lanning

Program Chair
Professor (Business/Accounting)

B.S. , Bloomsburg State College; M.S. , SUNY College at Albany.

Adjunct Faculty

Frederick Ciaschi,

B.S. , Ithaca College; Certified Public Accountant, New York State.

Thomas Fetzner

B.S. , Rochester Institute of Technology.

Susan Haynes

A.A.S. , Onondaga Community College; B.S. , University at Albany.

Rodney Kemp

B.S. , Ithaca College; Certified Public Accountant, New York State.

John E. Little

B.S. , Le Moyne College; M.A. , SUNY Empire State College; Certified Public Accountant, New York State.

Matthew Neuman

A.A.S. , SUNY College at Morrisville; B.S. , SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome.

Joseph Schmid

A.A.S. , Cayuga Community College; B.S. , Le Moyne College.

Richard Smith

A.A.S. , Tompkins Cortland Community College; B.S. , Ithaca College.

Tompkins Cortland Community College