Course Descriptions

Bus. 100 - BASIC BUSINESS ENGLISH
Basic Business English is designed to improve the student's knowledge of grammar and
structured writing.


Bus. 210 - BUSINESS MATHEMATICS I
Basic computations, operation with fractions and decimals, conversions.


Bus. 220 - BUSINESS MATHEMATICS II
Instruction in interest computation, discounting, tax computation, and percentages.


Bus. 250 - TEN-KEY BY TOUCH
Use of electronic calculators, adding machines, and computer ten-key pads.


Bus. 310 - KEYBOARDING I
Instruction on basic keyboarding.


Bus. 320 - KEYBOARDING II
Fundamentals of touch keyboarding and speed drills.


Bus. 400 - INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS
Using personal computers, disk operating systems (DOS), storage media, use of personal
printers, Windows environment.


Bus. 410 - WORD PROCESSING
Instruction will be given in word processing concepts, hands-on training, general formatting
and editing.


Bus. 500 - PAYROLL & BANKING
Basic instruction in the procedures that are used to prepare bank deposits, issue checks,
maintain a record of checking account activities, reconcile the monthly bank statement, and
do payroll computations, records and payments.


Bus. 510 - BASIC BOOKKEEPING (BK I)
An introduction to record-keeping where students will gather, classify, summarize, and report
financial information about a business or a nonprofit organization by means of an income
statement and a balance sheet..


Bus. 520 - BOOKKEEPING/JOURNALS (BK II)
A study of the general journal and the general ledger as applied to a service business.
Students will learn to prepare a trial balance on a ten column worksheet, enter the necessary
adjustments on it, complete it and prepare financial statements from the completed
worksheet.


Bus. 530 - BOOKKEEPING-ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE (BK III)
A study of the adjusting and closing entries as they create a permanent record of the
adjustments that appear on the worksheet. Students will become familiar with special journals
and subsidiary ledgers and will learn about more complex financial statements and the
controls that businesses build into their accounting systems to ensure honesty, accuracy,
and efficiency in recording transactions and handling assets.


Bus. 540 - ADVANCED BOOKKEEPING (BK IV)
Students will work on Integrated Accounting systems to demonstrate and hone their ability to
analyze and record business transactions in the proper special journals (sales, purchases,
cash receipts, and cash payments journals) and post them to the corresponding subsidiary
ledgers (accounts receivable and accounts payable) in addition to the general journal and
general ledger, in a computerized accounting package.


Bus. 500 - PAYROLL & BANKING
Basic instruction in the procedures that are used to prepare bank deposits, issue check,
maintain a record of checking account activities, reconcile the monthly bank statement, and
do payroll computations, records and payments.


Bus. 545 - INTEGRATED ACCOUNTING
This course teaches students an actual market version of a computerized system for tracking
business financial activities and maintaining accounting records. Prerequisite: Business 540


Bus. 550 - COMPUTER SPREADSHEET I
Entering data and applying formulas; creating accounting records on the computer using
commonly found spreadsheet data..


Bus. 560 - COMPUTER SPREADSHEET II
Application of spreadsheet principles to accounting records, creating and editing formats for
regular accounting entries using a Windows XP environment. Includes the ability to create a
graphs and maps.


Bus. 605 - OFFICE PROCEDURES
Instruction in entry level management. The student will learn to perform filing functions for
alphabetic, geographic and numeric filing.


Bus. 610 - TELEPHONE SKILLS
This course is an introduction to telephone communication to familiarize students to the basic
techniques and professional use of the telephone.

Bus. 620 - JOB SKILLS
This course will prepare the student to obtain employment. Instruction in resume writing, job
search techniques, employer expectations and mock interviewing skills will be covered.

Bus. 570 - ACCESS
Students will learn basic and advanced operations on a database system analyzing and
sorting information.

Adelante Career Institute
14547 Titus St., Suite 100
Van Nuys, CA 91402
(818) 908-9912


Computerized
Accounting