College of San Mateo Courses

Study of the fundamentals of accounting and the skills required to perform the bookkeeping for a small business. Topics include the accounting cycle, preparation of journals, ledgers, adjusting journa

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Development of speed and accuracy using the ten-key pad on a computer keyboard.

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks
• Paid Course

Survey of the time value of money (TVM) concept. Topics include calculation of present values and future values for single amounts and annuities. The TVM concept will be applied to problems commonly f

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Paid Course

This course provides an overview of financial literacy, terminology, concepts and practices of personal finance. Students will learn how to navigate the financial decisions they must face and to make

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Introduction to QuickBooks accounting software. Topics include payroll and merchandising business transactions; the sales cycle, purchasing cycle, and end-of-period procedures. ACTG 144 and ACTG 145 a

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Paid Course

Study of the philosophy, environment and practice of auditing. Topics include Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS), ethics, legal liability and malpractice; internal controls and audit risk; a

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Study of the theory and practice of accounting for federal, state, and local governmental entities and nonprofit agencies. Topics include analysis and application of pronouncements from the Government

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Study of the theory and practice of managerial cost accumulation concepts and techniques for product and service costing, planning and control. Special emphasis will be placed on the use of cost accou

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Study of ethical issues and professional responsibilities in the accounting profession. Topics will include the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and Treasury Department Circular 230. Students will u

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

This course explores how anthropologists study and compare human culture. Cultural anthropologists seek to understand the broad arc of human experience focusing on a set of central issues: how people

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Survey of European and American artistic expression from the Neoclassical to the present (c. 1750 - present.) Emphasizes the development of modern painting and sculpture as a reaction against earlier

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

This course provides an overview of art and architecture from the Western modern period of the 19th and 20th centuries.

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Introduction to plants and their functions as they apply to people. Covers principles of living organisms, structure-function, evolution, and ecology. Emphasizes the role of plants in the development

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

Plumbing Code regulations pertinent to all phases and types of construction. Course covers sewers, building drains, rainwater/stormwater drainage, venting, water distribution systems, natural gas syst

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course

International Business introduces students to the integrated and interdependent global environment within which businesses operate. Using theoretical and practical perspectives, this course focuses on

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Paid Course