Accounting is often defined as the “language of business.” However, accounting systems go far beyond commercial business operations into government, charitable, and even personal operations. In a sense, accounting is the lifeblood of financial information. It provides the information necessary for making sound business, governmental, nonprofit organizational and personal financial decisions. This course has been specially designed to acquaint LPA and IPA students with the accounting information, concepts, and principles essential for decision making in their chosen career paths. The course examines the collection, recording, and reporting of financial information necessary for informed decision making by principals within and outside of the specified organization