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ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT, THE INSTRUCTOR, AND THE CLASSES:

 

The Accounting Department's Mission Statement    

Instructor's Brief Biography

Course Descriptions

Acctg. 121 is a 5-credit introductory practical accounting course with a vocational emphasis.  It is a prerequisite for Business 122.  It is a hands-on course designed to prepare students for entry level bookkeeping/accounting positions.

Business 216 is a 5-credit microcomputer hands-on applications course featuring Microsoft Office's Word (word processing), Excel (spreadsheet), PowerPoint (presentation software), and Access (data base)

Business 122 is a 5-credit course following the introductory course and deals i n detail with subjects from the first accounting class. .

Business 124 is a 5-credit course of accounting on the microcomputer which uses educational and commercial general ledger software packages to do on computer what the student did manually in the introductory courses. 

Hotel 285 is a 5-credit course of accounting for those in the hospitality/hotel program.  

Want to know more?

Call me at 206-669-0012

e-mail me at pbille@cox.net 

Talk to your advisor

Read the College Catalog

Read the Quarterly

Ask other students

 

CLASSES BEGIN MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2008

 

GETTING STARTED

For SPRING Quarter, 2008

 

How to register       

      Click on Distance Learning

How to Buy Books

Student Services

http://flightline.highline.edu/classes/ 

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Students with Incompletes--due within one year of class end: 

Contact Pat at pbille@cox.net    

Do NOT use pbille@sedona.net or pbille@highline.edu or pbille@commspeed.net 

Refer to the assignment sheet you, of course printed off, and begin working where you left off--indicated by your check mark. You should know where to begin.

Continue e-mailing assignments to pbille@cox.net with very complete subject lines, including class and number (E.G. 121 OR 285), last name, first name, what you are sending and quarter and year..

BESIDES THIS WEB SITE,  BLACKBOARD IS YOUR OTHER MAJOR ON-LINE TOOL FOR E-MAIL, DISCUSSION BOARD, TESTS AND TEST SCORES) ACTIVATES ABOUT MIDNIGHT MARCH 30, 2008 

 

PAPERWORK FOR WINTER QUARTER, 2008

BUSINESS 121

Acctg. 121 Syllabus

Acctg. 121 Assignments

 

 ALL WORK IS DUE TO ME BY MIDNIGHT, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2008; POSTMARKED NO LATER THAN WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2008  (at that point, you'll need an overnight carrier or guaranteed 2-day carrier OR FAX IT TO ME).

    

Please, Click on the  blue link ABOVE that represents your classes' course information--PRINT them out and READ through the syllabus and SCAN the assignment/calendar

NOW, TAKE A DEEP BREATH.  You will do fine.  Just reread and mark up the handouts you printed.

 

 

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Summer

Three generations:  daughter,  granddaughter, and me ( yes, I do have a suit on), and we've added a grandson IN 2007.

 

 

 

COMMUNICATIONS

HOW TO REACH INSTRUCTOR, 

PAT

e-mail address pbille@cox.net 

My emergency e-mail if cox.net is not working is patriciabille@yahoo.com

        Cell     206-669-0012      

  Home  623-266-9576

   Fax      623-322-7013

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Home Address:

                    Pat Bille                                   

      6223 W. McRae Way

    Glendale, AZ 85308  

 

 

HOW TO USE BLACKBOARD

1.  How to get into Academic/Blackboard to log in and use password:  http://blackboard.highline.edu
 
2.  What are my IC Student account username and password handout address or URL
 
3..   A HELP page  http://flightline.highline.edu/icchelp/bb/  

4.   e-mail for help:  icchelp@highline.edu

5.   Online help:  http://flightline.highline.edu/icchelp/

6.  Telephone for help:  206-870-4880

 

 

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Our Mission in the Accounting Department

The mission of the Highline Community College Accounting Department is to provide both occupational and transfer business students with the contemporary business skills and knowledge needed to succeed both personally and professionally as an active member of our society and economic system.

On Campus Mail Stop 18-1
Attn. Patty VonBehren, Secretary
2400 S. 240th Street
Des Moines, WA 98198
206.878.3710
Fax: 1-928-282-6144
e-Mail Pat at pbille@cox.net

Education

Olympic Community College AA degree

University of Washington BA degree

University of Washington MEd. degree

 

Teaching/Professional

I taught three years at Evergreen High School in White Center before joining Highline's Business Division as a part timer for eleven years.  I was tenured for about 21 years and still enjoy the roller coaster ride of technology in accounting and in microcomputer applications and the students who join me on the ride.  I have taught exclusively online for the last 10 years--first from campus, then from Sedona, AZ and now from Goodyear, AZ west of Phoenix.  So, I've moved from the high country to the Valley of the Sun.  It gets hot either place, but not as cold down here and much hotter.   BUT IT IS A DRY HEAT--REALLY!  85 in Seattle was miserable.  Not here.  Literally, no sweat (unless you are crazy enough to go work out in the direct sunlight).  Last January, 2007, we had a 28-year record low of 18 degrees (tough on the citrus) and an 82-year record high of 100 week before last.  Today, March 25, 2008, it is going to be 88.  

Before teaching, I spent several years in accounting offices in large corporate settings--Phelps Dodge Copper (big in Montana and Arizona) and Norris Grain in Chicago (cattle, oil, railroads, and NHL hockey where I got to do the payroll for the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Black Hawks).   Mr. Norris owned all of the Detroit Red Wings hockey team and half of the Chicago Black Hawks hockey team.  And during the more recent years I did books for a nonprofit organization (church) and small sole proprietorships, including our own.

OTHER STUFF

My great husband Bruce and I have a wonderful daughter who is married  to a super man (and Certified Public Accountant and Chief Financial Officer).  We had a terrific son named Ryan who died just before his 18th birthday of a brain tumor which he had fought with surgery, bone marrow transplant, and radiation for 21 months.  He would have been  37 years old next September.

We have two dogs (We lost 17 year-old Suzi in February, 2002 and Chase 16 on my birthday in 2005).  We now have Katie (8 years of wild beagle), and Zach (5 years) who keep us well trained.  Bruce is busy playing  pool when he is not motorcycle racing (Pueblo, Colo. and Albuquerque, NM the two weeks before the start of fall quarter) or he working on the yard or or his garage.  He races; I stand by.  When not working on school or the textbook I enjoy the sun, swimming, reading, and exploring Arizona and nearby states as well as returning to my life-time home (Washington State) to see our daughter and her husband and our first grandchild who is nearly 4 years old.  She is joined by a brudder (as she says it) who is nearly 1.  

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