Career Exploration Assignment -ACCT 311

Career exploration and planning is a continuing theme in our curriculum. Please select the best starting point for this assignment, complete appropriate activities, and prepare a one page report, single-spaced, with double spacing between paragraphs.

1. What is your experience with the UMUC Career Quest account system? http://www.umuc.edu/current-students/career-services/careerquest.cfm

2. If you set up an account describe any benefit you experienced.

3. For Job Seekers, Career Quest provides access to an e-resume review process allowing you to submit a job posting of interest and your resume, receiving a report similar to a screening system

4. If you are not a job seeker, highlight UMUC Career Quest resources to recommend to others

5. Explain how our course, ACCT 311 Intermediate Accounting II, relates to your academic and career goals, including certifications and graduate degree possibilities.

Completion of this report illustrates your goals as they relate to our class, in the framework of career exploration and planning.

Course objectives:

• identify and analyze business transactions and their impact on financial statements

• research and prepare financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, including relevant disclosures

• research accounting principles and apply critical thinking and problem-solving techniques to evaluate accounting alternatives and consequences

Your report should specifically include our course name and may refer to your experience completing a similar assignment in other courses.