Business, Accounting, and Entrepreneurship

Learn keyboarding to enhance typing skills, word processing to compose letters and prepare reports, and email management to send and manage emails and schedule meetings. Prepares students for a wide variety of entry level jobs in office settings, retail shops and/or as customer service representatives, receptionists and office clerks.

Learn soft skills including written business communication, verbal business communication and problem-solving, critical thinking and customer service in a variety of workplace environments. Prepares students for entry level jobs in office settings, retail shops and/or as customer service representatives, receptionists and information clerks.

Learn basic computers and operating systems used in business environment plus how to build, analyze and formulate spreadsheets including deeper understanding of computer networks, information systems, security and the internet in a business environment. Prepares students for entry level jobs in office settings, retail shops and/or as customer service representatives, receptionists and information clerks.

Provides students with the fundamental skills necessary to achieve successful employment in the accounting field.  The program teaches important concepts like monitoring and forecasting business finances, understanding business transactions, managing general journals, and basic elements of accounting.

The course is partnered with Intuit for Education to teach real-world QuickBooks tools to track finances.  The Account Clerk Certificate prepares students for new careers or advancement in their current profession.  Students will be introduced to the job opportunities within the accounting field.

There are 6 required courses to receive the Account Clerk Certificate. Students can start the program by enrolling in Accounting – Beginning or Business Math.  The certificate requires Spreadsheets – Advanced (Microsoft Excel), which can also be taken as the first class in the certificate series.

Learn to create and distribute complex documents; develop analytical and statistical reports; create presentations; and use the Internet as a resource.

Provides students with the knowledge and skills needed in project planning and management. This program provides students with the practical application skills and working knowledge of the tools necessary to plan, implement and manage projects in any business environment.

The program courses include instruction in the fundamentals of project management, including planning, defining a project, resources, roles and responsibilities, necessary skills, tools and processes. Project management software options such as Microsoft Project are used throughout the program. Instruction will also cover team building, problem solving, decision making, using creativity and innovation, emerging trends, communication skills and a capstone project.

Students who successfully complete the program can use the skills learned as a foundation for additional educational training in any business area.

This certificate program builds on the topics covered in Project Management I and Project Management II with a focus on intermediate and advanced project management concepts and processes. Courses of instruction include project governance, project procurement and cost management, project quality management, and project stakeholder management. Advanced concepts in iterative project management and Agile methodology, project leadership and communication are also taught. All topics are interconnected via the project life cycle framework and exercised through the development and presentation of a capstone project by students.

Provides students with the practical application skills and knowledge to start and manage a small business. Includes instruction in the essentials of starting a small business, recognizing the requirements of local, state and federal organizations, identifying best practices in hiring, as well as sales and marketing strategies.

In a capstone written business plan project, students demonstrate a business model concept that creates customer value in a product or service, and identifies how a student may successfully create self-employment by creating their own small business.

Students who successfully complete the program can use the skills learned to start their own small business for self-employment or obtain a job in the field of business management, market analysis, business development or sales.

Provides students with the practical application skills and knowledge to plan, manage and grow a small business. Includes instruction in the essentials of business; sales and marketing skills necessary for the entrepreneur or manager; roles of the entrepreneur; sales ethics and developing a sales team.

In a capstone written business plan project, students demonstrate a business model concept that identifies how a student may successfully grow a small business.

Students who successfully complete the program can use the skills learned to start and manage their own small business for self-employment or obtain a job in the field of business management, market analysis, business development or sales.

The Business Sales program provides students with the practical knowledge and skills for success in small business sales and sales occupations. The program guides students through the preparation, use, and applications of customer relationship management (CRM) systems. The program also includes instruction in sales communication skills, organizational skills, confidence building, and professional resiliency. Topics include establishing a CRM, using the CRM effectively, CRM team management, and data management and analysis, essential listening, communication professionalism, problem solving, the use of CRM in communications, bidding, reputation management, communication flow, workplace social skills, and customer interaction. Students who successfully complete the program can use the knowledge, skills, and tools learned to obtain a job in a sales profession, manage the sales for a small business, or effectively sell their own products or services as an entrepreneur.