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Learn basic accounting skills that prepare you for high-demand positions, including bookkeeper, accounting assistant, accounts payable clerk and payroll clerk. This two-year program also prepares you for transfer to a four-year college to complete your degree.

Careers

Demand for workers with training in accounting is high across all sectors of business and industry. Accountants are needed in the public and private sectors, as well as in not-for-profit agencies and service groups. The training received at Pierce College Puyallup provides the basic accounting skills needed to help you secure a stable future and a high-paying career as an accounting assistant or clerk, accounts payable clerk, payroll clerk, or bookkeeper.

Transfer

Students who earn a certificate or associate's degree in accounting from Pierce are prepared for entry-level positions in the accounting field. Students intending to transfer to a four-year program are asked to work closely with their academic advisor and pursue an associate's degree in business with the direct transfer option.

Course Maps

Students interested in accounting are advised to take a skills assessment test through the Pierce College testing center.

Certificates can be earned in three quarters to a year. The associate in business takes about two years.

Career Pathway Course Maps

Program Outcomes

Contacts

Suzanne
Lozano
Assistant Professor
253-964-6637
Tatiana
Wetzler
Professor and Accounting Department Chair
253-864-3163
Annette
Sawyer-Sisseck
Business Accounting Navigator
253-864-3362