Business Administration 1a
Financial Accounting
WELCOME!
To
Class !
Presented by: Gayle M. Richardson
CPA, Professor
Office - B-6
(Across the Hall, in the back - 12 to 1pm)
Presented by: Gayle M. Richardson
CPA, Professor
Office - B-6 MTWT Noon to 1:15p.m.
Telephone 395-4062
(Leave a message!!!)
E-mail - grichard@bc.kern.cc.ca.us or
aweclr@lightspeed.net
Prerequisites
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REQUIRED:
Reading Level 1
English 1 or evaluation by me
 SUGGESTED:
Math D - Intermediate Algebra
Sophomore Standing
No more than 16 units total
Enrollment in
SpStud 49-Accounting
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Special Studies 49 - Accounting
Who ?- anyone who has had 53a or 1a or is
currently enrolled in 1a/1b
What? Interactive Accounting Lab
When? At your own pace
Why ? Knowledge Reinforcement
Where? In the Library Commons
or purchase the software &
load at home for $40.
How? Bring/Send me an Add Slip!
2 units Transfer level ........then see me!!!
Course Description
An introduction to accounting theory
and practice
Two-semester series (BUSAD 1b next)
Presents procedures used in preparing
financial statements
Designed to prepare
transfer students for
Intermediate Accounting
or other upper division
business/computer courses at
a four-year institution
Course Goals &
Objectives
To prepare Business Administration majors for
Intermediate Accounting and other upper division
business courses.
To introduce the student to the broad concepts of
accounting including procedures of recording,
summarizing and analyzing business transactions.
To give the student practice in the construction of
financial statements
and in the procedures leading to
the construction of such statements.
Course Goals &
Objectives
To develop the following skills:
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Technical and analytical
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Communication
Interpersonal
Personal/self
To be able to identify and make
sound ethical decisions in financial
reporting and the business
environment.
Means of Achieving
72 Hours On-Line plus homework
Each topic reinforced by a presentation
Students will be given reading assignments,
practical problems, quizzes, practice sets,
team/group assignments, and outside
assignments, such as:
Reading the newspaper,
magazines, etc.…
Internet Assignments, team projects,
chat rooms, discussion forums, and so on!
Library Commons
Classroom B-7
LIBRARY
Text
Needles, Anderson, and Caldwell,
Financial & Managerial Accounting,
Houghton Mifflin, fourth edition, 1995.
Working Papers (Chapters 1-14)Set
A(optional)
Study Guide
Practice Set ( TBA)
Supplies
Calculator
Ruler (Clear)
Eraser(Pink Pearl)
Mechanical Pencil
Colored Pencil
Stapler & Staples
Supply Box
Supplies
Calculator
Ruler (Clear)
Eraser(Pink Pearl)
Mechanical Pencil
Colored Pencil
Stapler & Staples
Supply Box
Accounting paper
(3 and 13 col.pads)
Ruled paper
(without squiggles)
Renegade Card
E-Mail Address
Homework
At least 8 hours per week
Must be done in pencil --- or in Word/Excel
Corrected by YOU - using a colored
pencil of your choice
No points given for exam unless
homework is received by me at
least 10 days after the exam.
Cover sheet on each
assignment.................................
Cover Sheet
Last Name, First Name
Bus Ad 1a (Time)
Chapter #
Date Turned In
 Professional - Nice & Neat
 In Chronological order ( Same as Textbook)
 Stapled in upper left-hand corner
 On 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper
Policies
 Attendance is required!
 If I don’t hear from you at least weekly,
I will think you are not interested in
completing the course.
Policies!
No Makeup Exams or Quizzes
Homework is Due on Time
Team Work is Expected
Keys to Success
Adequately prepared to take this class
Having met the prerequisites
Having TIME from your life to DEVOTE
Systematic preparation for each class
Doing your homework ahead of time
Reading the Chapter before previewing
on-line.
Careful attention to this syllabus
Attendance
This is not OSMOSIS 1A
WELCOME
and may the
FORCE be
with YOU!