Accounting/Management Information Systems

Award Type: Associate in Applied Science

Overview and Award Outcomes

Overview

Business information systems support the reporting and analysis of financial/business information. To support this objective, this degree blends the skill sets of related professions: accountant and business analyst.� Both occupations, from different perspectives and job duties, summarize, process, analyze, propose solutions, and report financial information.� This degree develops an employee who is able understand both the information technology and accounting aspects of an organization.

Award Outcomes

  • Demonstrate critical thinking skills
  • Generate accounting financial statements
  • Utilize current accounting and office software
  • Synthesize business information
  • Record business transactions
  • Manage MIS processes
  • Apply computational thinking concepts such as abstraction, generalization and composition/decomposition
  • Create relational database tables
  • Retrieve data using TSQL
  • Use analytical function