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What is an Associate Degree in Accounting?

The Accounting Associate Degree program at LCCC is designed to provide students with the necessary skills for entry-level accounting positions. This degree can also be used as a starting point to pursue a bachelor’s degree.

The Business Management Associate Degree program is accredited by the Accreditation Council of Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).

Program Coordinator

 Lacey L. Gonzalez

Lacey L. Gonzalez

Associate Professor of Business
Schnecksville, PA

Accounting Courses

Your accounting courses will prepare you for success in either a future career or when pursuing a four-year degree. In this program, you’ll take classes like:

  • Principles of Accounting
  • Income Tax Accounting
  • Cost/Managerial Accounting
  • Accounting Information Systems
  • Business Law

Pathway to a Career in Accounting

Advance your career at your own pace. Each step below transfers credits to the next. Appropriate job titles and average pay ranges are meant to help guide an individual interested in this field; they vary based on individual experience and employer.

Wage information taken from Lightcast Q2 2023 BETA Data Set – QCEW Employees. Wage range is 25%-75% hourly average in surrounding 10-county region.

Bachelor’s Transfer Schools

Pennsylvania offers statewide program-to-program articulation. This allows students who graduate with specific associate degrees to transfer as juniors into a bachelor’s degree program in a similar field of study at a participating four-year college. Learn more about transferring to a four-year school.

Your A.A.S. in Accounting prepares you to transfer to the following four-year colleges or universities:

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