Accounting Diploma
Program Overview
The business world is changing at a rapid rate, making it more important than ever before for people entering the labour market to have more specialized training. The Accountancy program provides highly practical and specialized training in the accounting field. Graduates of the Accountancy program have been employed in various accounting positions in industry, public and government sectors.
The Accountancy program allows the graduate to obtain advanced standing towards the CAFM status (Certified Aboriginal Financial Manager Program) and/or CGA status (Certified General Accountant), as well as university courses and other professional bodies.
Courses
(click item to view course description)A continuation of Taxation I, but the emphasis is on corporate taxation and issues related to business income and taxation. The course includes preparation and calculations necessary for the completion of a corporate tax return.
Contact Hours: 90
An introductory course in taxation, administrative practices and issues related to personal taxation. The course includes preparation and calculations necessary for the completion of a personal tax return.
Contact Hours: 90
An examination of the techniques and mechanisms used to ensure control within Indian public administration. Topics include strategic planning, program development, budgeting, program implementation and evaluation, funds accounting, financial reporting, management control and financial management for Indian governments and related organizations.
Contact Hours: 90
This course covers organizing, presenting and summarizing data; basic probability concepts and problem solving; discrete and continuous probability distributions; sampling and inferences about means and proportions; linear and nonlinear curve fitting and regression analysis; chi-square and analysis of variance, and nonparametric statistics.
Contact Hours: 90
This course is a comprehensive study of computerized accounting. Students learn computerized accounting using Simply Accounting.
Contact Hours: 90
A continuation of Statistics I, with an emphasis on quantitative methods used in business: record-keeping, budgeting and planning structures of local government bodies, non-profit organizations, hospitals and nursing homes.
Contact Hours: 90
An examination of human behaviour in organizations. Topics include relationships and communications in small groups, and intergroup relations, leadership, culture, power and change. Topics are discussed in the context of various organizations, including governmental, educational and industrial. Case studies are used extensively.
Contact Hours: 90
A continuation of the study of Intermediate Accounting. Topics include the theory and practices governing recording of transactions and financial statement presentation of current and long-term liabilities, shareholder equity and earning, revenue recognition, pension, financial statement analysis, accounting for corporate income taxes and income statement.
Contact Hours: 120
A study of intermediate financial accounting. Topics include the conceptual framework of accounting, objectives of financial statements, theory and practice governing recording of transactions and financial statement presentation of cash, receivables, inventory, investments, fixed assets, intangible assets, leases, accounting changes and error analysis.
Contact Hours: 120
This course examines human resource and financial issues in an aboriginal context. Topics include staffing, training and development, evaluating performance, managing staff, managing funding arrangements, and a variety of aboriginal financial issues.
Contact Hours: 90
An overview of the concepts and techniques used in analyzing and solving financial problems. Topics include risk, return, valuation, working capital management investments, capital structure, dividend policies and long term financing.
Contact Hours: 90
This course focuses on nonroutine decision-making, cost allocation, process costing systems and spoilage. Specific topics include relevancy of revenues and costs, cost allocation decisions (joint and by-products, used and unused capacity, departmental allocation), process costing systems used, weighted average and FIFO, and management control of input and output.
Contact Hours: 90
An introduction to accounting for product costing and managerial planning and control. Topics include job costing for service merchandising and manufacturing organizations, cost-volume-profit relationships, budgeting, standard costing and variance analysis, and variable and absorption costing.
Contact Hours: 90
An introduction to auditing and its objectives, including type of evidence and documentation, internal control and audit sampling, testing cycle controls and performing substantive tests for the sales and collection cycle, and the acquisition and payment cycle. The course also examines computer systems and auditing.
Contact Hours: 90
An introduction to accounting systems, concepts and tools. The course provides a systematic approach to the analysis and development of accounting systems. Technology and controls within computer-based accounting systems as well as specific computer applications in an accounting information system are studied.
Contact Hours: 90
