CLEP Principles of Accounting is long gone now. There is a CLEP Financial Accounting and a DSST Financial Accounting, but there is no longer any exam for Managerial Accounting. A community college course or a Penn Foster course can take care of that for you.
If you take the ECE Organizational Behavior instead of the DSST, you get Advanced level Business credit for it.
It doesn't make much difference whether you enroll early or late at Excelsior. If you are going to take more than a year to complete your degree, you may want to wait and enroll later, saving a yearly student service fee. On the other hand, you do get some benefits, such as the online library, advisory, and tutorial services when you enroll. Some will advise that you don't have your CLEP and DANTES scores automatically sent to Excelsior. That way you can do some pruning if you blow an exam. Once it goes to the college, it goes on the transcript. I have been having all mine sent directly, and I just make sure I'm prepared before I take an exam.
Most of your other business core requirements are prerequisites for the Business Strategy course, so they may not let you enroll in that one until the other courses come in. My experience has been that they are quite quick with evaluations, but their official word is that they can take weeks.
Hope that helps,
-Gary-
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