The Accounting Operations Program is designed to prepare students for employment as an accounting clerk, accounting associate, and accounting assistant. The course content includes double-entry accounting principles; methods of recording business transactions; preparation and analysis of various documents and financial statements; payroll record and tax forms; accounting control systems; account and transaction analysis; inventory methods; the aging process; depreciation; and the application of accounting principles to various entities. In addition, activities include the use of keyboarding systems, calculators, computers, spreadsheets (MS Excel), accounting QuickBooks software, and peripheral equipment.