Certificate in Accounting
(Summer Intensive, UW Campus)
Developed in partnership with the Foster School of Business

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The Summer 2009 program is no longer accepting applications

Next program starts: Summer 2010

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Autumn, UW Campus and Bellevue
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This program features in-depth coverage of these topics:

Intermediate Financial Accounting (50%)
Concepts and principles of financial accounting; analysis of controversies and problems related to the measurement of enterprise income and asset and liability valuation.

Cost Accounting (17%)
Introduction to the theory of cost accounting; job order, process and standard cost systems; overhead accounting; problems in accumulation and allocation of costs; decision making with cost data.

Auditing Standards and Principles (17%)
Introduction to the attest function; the environment, process and report of the public auditor; potential extensions of the attest function.

Tax Effects of Business Decisions (16%)
Issues in taxation, including tax considerations in business decision making, tax effects of business transactions, taxation of compensation, fringe benefits, capital gains, fixed asset transactions and disposition of business distribution from corporations.