Accounting Technician Diploma

Become the Financial Data Expert Everyone Trusts

You spend your days keeping track of important financial information. Your work helps with payroll, paying bills, and collecting money. You use the newest accounting software and Microsoft Office. Your coworkers rely on you for accurate and timely data.

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Accounting Technician Diploma at a Glance

Degree
Diploma
Length of Study
1 Year
Course Format
Face-to-Face
Classes Meet
Daytime
Program Start
Fall, Spring, Summer

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100%

Faculty are CPAs

90%

Become Quickbooks certified

13:1

Faculty to student ratio

$0

Tuition for Eligible Students

Your Accounting Technician Career

With an Accounting Technician diploma, you can look forward to a stable job and a rewarding career. Many of our graduates go on to work in roles like these:

  • Payroll
  • Accounts payable
  • Accounts receivable
  • Bookkeeper

Program Overview

Our leading industry curriculum and coursework will give you the skills and knowledge to prepare you for an accounting position.  You learn: 

  • Cost Accounting
  • Income Tax accounting
  • Financial Analysis
  • Advanced Excel data tools
  • Choose from 11 business electives

Semester 1

  • Applied Math or
  • Introduction to Accounting or
    Financial Accounting
  • Introduction to Computers or
    Information Computing
  • Payroll Accounting
  • The College Experience

Semester 2

  • Accounting Spreadsheets
  • Computer Accounting
  • Fundamentals of Oral Communication
  • Introduction to Accounting II or
    Managerial Accounting

Accounting Technician Electives

  • Business Ethics
  • Business Law
  • Business Statistics
  • Introduction to Business
  • Personal Finance
  • Principles of Macroeconomics
  • Principles of Management
  • Principles of Microeconomics
  • Small Business Management

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This program qualifies for the Future Ready Iowa Last-Dollar Scholarship and will pay up to 100% of your tuition.

You must apply for, be awarded, and meet the ongoing eligibility requirements for the Last-Dollar Scholarship.

These are just a few of the companies that hire graduates from this program:

  • Advanced Systems, Inc., Waterloo, IA
  • Isle Casino Hotel, Waterloo, IA
  • Lee Enterprises (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier), Waterloo, IA
  • McGladrey LLP, Waterloo, IA
  • Paul R. Nielsen Co., PC, Cedar Falls, IA
  • The Principal Financial Group, Waterloo, IA
  • Veridian Credit Union, Locations throughout Iowa

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How to Get Started

It’s simple! Complete these steps:

  1. Apply for admission at Hawkeye.
  2. Send official transcripts to Admissions.
  3. Demonstrate college readiness.

Check the status of your application at any time by logging into your admissions account.

Program Admission Requirements

To enroll this program, you’ll need to meet the minimum score requirements.

  ALEKS ACCUPLACER Next Generation ACCUPLACER Classic COMPASS ACT GPA
Math 14 255 Arithmetic
246 Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra, and Statistics		 63 Arithmetic 39 Pre-Algebra 16 2.25

You can take the ALEKS Placement Assessment online. If you prefer, you can take the ACCUPLACER Next Generation or ACT at Hawkeye. While ACCUPLACER Classic and COMPASS aren’t offered anymore, you can still use your scores from those tests if you took them before for program admission.

If you don’t meet the minimum score requirements, you can take success courses instead. Talk to your academic advisor to help you find the right courses to get started.

If you meet the assessment score requirements, you can be accepted into the program.

If you don't meet these requirements, you’ll be accepted into a Pre-Program. As a pre-program student, you’ll start by taking general education and prerequisite classes. Your academic advisor will help you make a plan to meet the program requirements. After finishing your pre-program courses, contact Admissions to let them know.

Program Contacts

Admissions

Main Campus
Hawkeye Center 134
319-296-4000
Email Admissions

Regular Hours — Spring 2025

Monday – Friday 8 AM – 4:30 PM

Academic Advisor

Last Names A–L

Last Names M–Z

Faculty Advisor

Patrick Geer
Main Campus
Black Hawk Hall 212
319-296-2329 ext.1371
Email Patrick Geer