Merritt College offers an Associate of Arts in Accounting. Accountants play an essential role in keeping businesses within their budgets, and this program offers real-world application of skills related to private accounting, institutional accounting, certified public accounting, and other career opportunities within the private and public sectors.

Upon successful completion of this program students will be able to: • Synthesize business communication techniques to create, revise and evaluate verbal and written business messages. • Apply knowledge of financial accounting, including content, concepts and structure of the various statements for internal and external use. • Evaluate the process of identifying, gathering, measuring, summarizing and analyzing financial data in business organizations.