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, consider the UMUC Career Quest resources you might recommend to others

5. Explain how our course, ACCT 220 Principles of Accounting I, also known as financial accounting, relates to your academic and career goals.

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

Course objectives:

• define the fundamental principles of accounting to describe basic business transactions

• identify and analyze basic business transactions to record them in an accounting information system

• prepare financial statements and documents in the appropriate formats

• identify and communicate with users of accounting and financial information to facilitate analytical decision making