One Students will develop or refine touch skills for entering alphabetic, numeric and symbolic information on a keyboard. Students will apply keyboarding skills to produce a variety of personal and business documents. This course is not available to those students who have successfully completed Keyboarding Applications on the high school level. Transfer students must demonstrate touch-typing skills to a business instructor before being enrolled in class. One Students will have a working knowledge of the methods and systems for preparing and maintaining financial records.
Emphasis is placed on the necessity for accuracy in recording transactions in business operations.
Areas studied include bookkeeping cycle, business journals, financial statements, and payroll records. Microcomputers will be used to automate, analyze, and interpret business applications. One Students will develop skills in applying technology to word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications, graphic information, manuscripts and reports using Windows and other programs. One Students will enhance word processing and communication skills as they develop competencies needed by administrative support professionals, written communications, records and database management, record keeping, human relations, and information processing. One Students will develop intermediate to advanced level word processing skills using a variety of software functions including graphics and desktop publishing.