Title: Syllabus
Course: Accounting (12104-I)

Copyright: 2025

Virginia Assignment Code: 6320

Suggested Grade Level: 10, 11, 12

Duration: 36 weeks

Hours: 140

Credits: 1

Prerequisites: None

CTSO: FBLA

Course Description:

In this course, students explore the intricacies of the accounting cycle for both service and merchandising businesses. They will analyze transactions, master journal entries, and create essential financial statements. Students will get hands-on experience with payroll records and learn to manage cash control systems while emphasizing the importance of business ethics and professional conduct. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.

Recommended prerequisite(s): Keyboarding or Digital Applications course(s) or teacher-approved demonstration and documentation of touch keyboarding skills.

Credentials, Course Sequences, and Career Clusters/Pathways can be found here:

https://www.cteresource.org/career-clusters/finance/19152/