American Samoa Community College MOODLE
15 Week Session
This course introduces students to the accounting cycle and methods to record and report financial information through application of procedures used to classify, record, and interpret business transactions and prepare financial statements. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the Accounting equation and explain the purpose of the closing process. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Maria Magalasin Luardo
This course is a continuation of ACC 150, with emphasis on the corporate setting and fundamentals of financial accounting. Topics will include long-term investments, liabilities both current and long-term, and stockholders’ equity. Students will analyze financial statements by using horizontal, vertical, and ratio analysis. (Note: 3 lecture credits).
- Teacher: Ioapo Taua'i
This course provides business and non-business majors with the skills necessary to succeed as an entrepreneur. The fundamental of starting and opening a business plan, obtaining financing, marketing a product or service and developing an effective accounting system. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Ioapo Taua'i
This course provides an overview of the American free enterprise market system. The course introduces students to entrepreneurship and the business process, with a balanced overview of the interwoven nature of basic business discipline and principles. Topics to be explored include business formation and practices, small business management, market dynamics, economic systems, competitive strategies, business ethics and social responsibilities. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Maria Magalasin Luardo
This course provides business and non-business majors with the skills necessary to succeed as an entrepreneur. The fundamental of starting and opening a business plan, obtaining financing, marketing a product or service and developing an effective accounting system. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Faofua Faatoafe
This course strengthens the theory and applications of commonly used business calculations such as simple and compound interests, face value, maturity value, and present value computations by using the 10-key calculators and electronic-displaying printing calculators. Emphasis will be placed on hands-on skills through the completion of the Assimilation Package (18 hands-on jobs). (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Faofua Faatoafe
This course is designed to provide knowledge and skills needed for effective communication to achieve personal and business goals. It will challenge students to think, create, and analyze verbal and non-verbal communication. Students will prepare business correspondence and written reports, deliver oral presentations, and use electronic writing and presentation tools. The course will also focus on the career employment process and the communicating with a diverse and global workforce. Skills in grammar, punctuation, and business vocabulary will be developed throughout the course. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Faofua Faatoafe
This course will cover introductory micro and macroeconomic principles as factors determining the general level of employment, inflation, and other key economic topics relevant and a concern to all people and their way of life. To be examined in the context of practical economic topics will be an analysis of markets, price and production. Current economic problems will be used to illustrate these concepts. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Lam Yuen Lam Yuen
This course provides a general overview of the field of marketing, including price, product, place, and promotion of consumer goods. Marketing strategies, channels of distribution, marketing, retailing, research, products promotion and advertising, and consumer attitudes as they relate to marketing will be studied. Students will learn that marketing is not just advertising, retailing, or selling; it encompasses a myriad of concepts, techniques, and activities all directed toward distribution of goods and services to chosen consumer segments. (Note: 3 lecture credits)
- Teacher: Maria Magalasin Luardo