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Farmington High School students foresee Advanced Accounting as a “credit” to post-secondary success... This is the third year for Advanced Accounting at Farmington Central High School. The program continues to grow. This year seven students are enrolled. The goal of the course is to prepare students for accounting classes at the college level. Perkins Grant money was utilized this year to purchase laptops for classroom use.

Ryan Stobaugh, a future Business Management student, said “the computers speed up the process. You still have to understand how to journalize the transactions and how they affect the accounts. Now when you complete a corporate worksheet, you can concentrate on the entries instead of spending so much time adding up the long column of figures.” The class has also helped him with the work he does for his Co-op job at Caterpillar. Gabe Ayers plans to enter the field of Sports Management. “You will definitely need an accounting background in this field.” Jennison Ebbert plans to be an Accounting major. “I wasn’t sure about my major until I took Accounting. The advanced class helped me decide this was the field for me.” Paige Ledbetter will need to take some accounting classes for her major in Human Resources and finds the class helpful. Donnie Rose also plans to major in Business Management. “Taking this prior knowledge to the college classroom will really make the transition to college easier,” stated Donnie. Charlie Balagna and Dakota Horn round out the class roll. They plan on entering the fields of Engineering and Broadcasting, respectively. These are just a few of the students at Farmington Central High School benefiting from Career and Technical Education.

(Respectfully submitted by Verda Roberts, Teacher, Farmington Central High School)