Your entry into an exploding field begins with Accounting at Lansing Community College. Our faculty will train you for an associate degree or professional certificate in accounting, both of which can translate into transfer to a four-year institution or entry into an employee-hungry workforce.
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Degrees and Certificates Offered
Accounting, AB
Overview
This major is designed for students wishing to work in the field of Accounting on completion of the Associate of Business degree. Graduates of this degree/major are qualified to work as a paraprofessional in most areas of accounting, such as financial reporting, cost accounting, governmental accounting, and tax preparation. Typically, paraprofessionals work under the supervision of a professional accountant, but may be doing essentially the same type of work. Job titles include bookkeeper, accounting clerk, and tax preparer, among others.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Admissions Requirements
LCC is an open enrollment college serving all those who are excited to learn. Applicants seeking financial aid must possess a high school diploma or GED.
Career Opportunities with a High School Diploma
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Career: Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
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Career: Auditors
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Career: Billing and Posting Clerks
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Career: Budget Analysts
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Career: Auditors
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Career: Budget Analysts
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Transferability
General education requirements may differ from one institution to another. Contact your preferred institutions and plan their general education requirements accordingly with an LCC advisor.
Accounting, CA
Overview
Certificate holders qualify for clerical-level accounting positions that frequently include the need for general office skills in addition to accounting. Job titles include billing clerk, bookkeeper, payroll clerk, accounts payable clerk, and accounts receivable clerk.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Admissions Requirements
LCC is an open enrollment college serving all those who are excited to learn. Applicants seeking financial aid must possess a high school diploma or GED.
Career Opportunities with a High School Diploma
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Career: Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
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Career: Billing and Posting Clerks
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Career: Budget Analysts
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Career: Auditors
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Accounting CPA Exam Preparation, AB
Overview
This degree focuses on helping students with a Bachelor Degree, outside the field of accounting, learn the material to pass the Uniform Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Examination, and provides them with the classes needed to start a career as a professional accountant. The program prepares students for success in all realms of accounting, including careers as an auditor, tax professional, cost accountant, governmental accountant, financial analyst, and many more.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Admissions Requirements
LCC is an open enrollment college serving all those who are excited to learn. Applicants seeking financial aid must possess a high school diploma or GED.
Career Opportunities with a Bachelor's Degree
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Career: Accountants and Auditors
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Career: Budget Analysts
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Career: Accountants and Auditors
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Transferability
General education requirements may differ from one institution to another. Contact your preferred institutions and plan their general education requirements accordingly with an LCC advisor.
Bookkeeping, CC
Overview
Certificate holders qualify for clerical-level accounting positions that frequently include the need for general office skills in addition to accounting. Job titles include billing clerk, bookkeeper, payroll clerk, accounts payable clerk, and accounts receivable clerk.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Admissions Requirements
LCC is an open enrollment college serving all those who are excited to learn. Applicants seeking financial aid must possess a high school diploma or GED.
Career Opportunities with a High School Diploma
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Career: Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
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Currently Employed
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Career: Auditors
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Career: Billing and Posting Clerks
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Career: Budget Analysts
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Business, GA
Overview
This degree is designed for students wishing to work in any Business-related field. The degree includes a common set of courses applicable to all Business majors and for all transfer institutions. Students beginning their college study in this degree program are encouraged to work with academic and program advisors throughout their first few semesters of study to determine their specific major area and transfer destination (if transfer is a goal). Students may select the Business Transfer Studies degree geared to any transfer major, including Economics, or a specific Associate in Business major (Accounting, Business Administration, Field Sales and Marketing, Financial Institutions, Human Resource Management, Insurance and Risk Management, International Business, Management, Marketing), which prepares students to work in the field on completion of the Associate degree and may also allow transfer to specific institutions.
Admissions Requirements
LCC is an open enrollment college serving all those who are excited to learn. Applicants seeking financial aid must possess a high school diploma or GED.
Career Opportunities With A Bachelor's Degree
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Career: General and Operations Managers
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Career: Sales Manager
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Career: Storage and Distribution Manager
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Career: Industrial Production Manager
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Transferability
General education requirements may differ from one institution to another. Contact your preferred institutions and plan their general education requirements accordingly with an LCC advisor.

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