Program Overview

The Associate of Applied Science in Accounting at Texas Business School is a two-year, workforce-focused accounting degree designed to prepare students with the practical accounting, financial, technological, analytical, communication, and professional skills required for entry-level and junior accounting positions.

Students begin with foundational instruction in accounting principles, bookkeeping, business organizations, quantitative methods, professional communication, and the accounting cycle. The program then progresses into financial accounting, managerial accounting, computerized accounting, payroll, taxation, intermediate accounting, auditing, internal controls, cost accounting, budgeting, financial reporting, accounting information systems, and accounting data analytics.

Through instructor-led instruction, accounting application laboratories, spreadsheet exercises, computerized accounting activities, tax simulations, audit work paper s, workplace simulations, business cases, and an integrated capstone project, students develop the ability to analyze, record, classify, reconcile, report, and interpret financial information.

Accounting technology is integrated throughout the curriculum. Students gain structured experience with professional spreadsheet applications, computerized accounting systems, cloud accounting environments, accounting databases, financial reporting tools, electronic work paperers, data-analysis tools, and other technologies used in modern accounting workplaces.

The program places a strong emphasis on practical accounting competency, financial accuracy, documentation, internal controls, professional ethics, confidentiality, technology, analytical thinking, and workplace readiness.

Career Outcomes

Graduates may pursue entry-level opportunities in accounting, bookkeeping, payroll, accounts receivable, accounts payable, taxation, auditing support, and financial administration. Potential career pathways include accounting assistant, bookkeeper, accounts payable clerk, accounts receivable clerk, payroll clerk, tax assistant, audit assistant, and junior accounting technician. Graduates may also apply their accounting and financial skills in small businesses, corporations, nonprofit organizations, government-related offices, and other business environments. Actual job titles, responsibilities, and employment requirements may vary depending on the employer, industry, and work setting.

What You’ll Learn

Accounting Foundations & Bookkeeping

Students develop a strong foundation in accounting terminology, the accounting equation, double-entry bookkeeping, source documents, journals, ledgers, trial balances, adjusting entries, closing entries, bank reconciliations, and the complete accounting cycle.

Financial Accounting & Reporting

Students learn financial-accounting principles and financial-reporting practices involving cash, receivables, inventory, property and equipment, liabilities, equity, revenue, investments, cash flows, and financial-statement presentation and analysis.

Managerial & Cost Accounting

Students learn how accounting information supports internal planning, control, budgeting, performance evaluation, and decision making. Topics include cost behavior, contribution margin, cost-volume-profit analysis, job costing, process costing, budgeting, standard costs, variances, relevant costs, and performance management.

Computerized Accounting

Students develop practical experience using computerized accounting systems to establish companies, maintain charts of accounts, process customer and vendor transactions, manage receivables and payables, process banking transactions, perform reconciliations, record journal entries, and generate financial reports.

Payroll & Taxation

Students learn payroll accounting, employee records, wage calculations, payroll deductions, payroll taxes, payroll registers, payroll journal entries, employer obligations, and payroll reporting concepts.

The program also introduces U.S. federal individual income taxation and business taxation, including taxpayer information, filing status, income, deductions, credits, business expenses, depreciation, partnerships, corporations, S corporations, tax workpapers, and simulated tax returns.

Intermediate Accounting

Students progress into more advanced financial-accounting topics, including financial reporting, present-value concepts, receivables, inventory, property and equipment, intangible assets, liabilities, bonds, equity, revenue recognition, investments, accounting changes, error corrections, income-tax reporting awareness, cash-flow reporting, and financial-statement analysis.

Auditing & Internal Controls

Students learn how internal controls protect assets, support reliable financial reporting, improve accountability, and reduce risk.

Practical activities include process walkthroughs, control questionnaires, flowcharts, control matrices, segregation-of-duties analysis, audit evidence, substantive procedures, audit sampling, account testing, audit workpapers, and audit findings.

Spreadsheets & Accounting Data Analytics

Students develop advanced spreadsheet and introductory accounting-data-analytics skills using financial and operational datasets.

Training includes advanced formulas, lookup functions, structured tables, data cleaning, PivotTables, data visualization, Power Query or equivalent tools, general-ledger analytics, receivable and payable analytics, payroll analytics, variance analysis, financial dashboards, and accounting-data-analysis projects.

Accounting Information Systems & Financial Reporting

Students examine how accounting data moves through business processes and accounting systems into the general ledger and financial statements.

Students work with transaction cycles, source documents, accounting databases, financial-reporting systems, system controls, reconciliations, reporting procedures, accounting research, professional standards, and accounting policy memoranda.

Professional Accounting Practice

Students participate in workplace simulations involving accounting departments, source-document management, transaction processing, receivables, payables, payroll, banking, month-end closing, account reconciliations, accounting software, spreadsheets, professional workpapers, error correction, communication, confidentiality, and quality control.

Integrated Accounting Capstone

Students complete a comprehensive simulated accounting engagement incorporating transaction processing, financial reporting, payroll, taxation, budgeting, cost accounting, financial analysis, accounting analytics, internal controls, audit support, accounting information systems, research, ethics, and advisory recommendations.

Admission Requirements

Applicants should possess a High School Diploma or equivalent or meet the applicable admission requirements for associate-level study.

Basic computer literacy is recommended. Prior professional accounting experience is not required.

Students should have sufficient mathematics, reading, writing, and computer skills to participate successfully in college-level accounting coursework.

International applicants may be required to submit additional documentation in accordance with institutional and regulatory requirements.

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Tuition & Study Options

Program Duration

2 Years / 4 Semesters

Study Options

Live Online | On-Campus | Hybrid

Training Structure

Tuition

$12,000