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Honours Bachelor of Business Administration – Accounting Online
Pursue a specialized accounting role or professional accounting title by building a well-rounded skillset that helps you thrive in a wide variety of organizations.
Program Overview
Prepare for a higher role with your Honours BBA in Accounting
Build high-demand business and accounting fundamentals with the Sheridan College Honours Bachelor of Business Administration – Accounting online program. Develop global business acumen through courses in business processes, supply chain & operations management, ethics and sustainability and more. Plus, you will become competent in accounting concepts like auditing and taxation. Our curriculum features modern case studies and is informed by partners at top companies, empowering you to succeed in the dynamic job market.
The online Honours Bachelor of Business Administration – Accounting program is delivered by industry experts, and courses meet the Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) requirement for entry into the CPA Professional Education Program (PEP). This program is recognized by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) as an accredited program and meets the educational prerequisite needed for entry to the Canadian Marketing Association's (CMA) Chartered Marketer program. This respected degree and our strong reputation can help boost your resume as you pursue new career roles.
As a graduate of this honours BBA program, you will be able to:
- Interpret financial statement and organizational results to enhance the entity’s decision-making performance
- Assess the measurable objectives of an entity’s strategic plan using appropriate quantitative and qualitative analyses
- Use appropriate technological tools and information systems necessary to provide the required financial information for effective decision-making
- Evaluate the dynamic of the global business environment from a competitive and economic perspective
- Perform robust research through the application of accepted applied research methodologies
- Interpret financial statement and organizational results to enhance the entity’s decision-making performance
- Assess the measurable objectives of an entity’s strategic plan using appropriate quantitative and qualitative analyses
- Use appropriate technological tools and information systems necessary to provide the required financial information for effective decision-making
- Evaluate the dynamic of the global business environment from a competitive and economic perspective
- Perform robust research through the application of accepted applied research methodologies
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Tuition
Tuition details for the accounting BBA honours
When you earn your online bachelor’s in accounting, you’re investing in your future.
Program | Per Program |
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Honours BBA – Accounting | $25,720 |
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Tuition breakdown:
Calendar
Use these dates to plan when to begin your program
Sheridan College online programs are delivered in an accelerated online format that is ideal for flexibility and convenience. We offer multiple start dates per year, so you can begin your program when it suits your schedule.
Term | Start Date | App Deadline | Document Deadline | Registration Deadline | Tuition Deadline | Class End Date | Term Length |
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Winter A | 2025/01/06 | 2024/12/13 | 2024/12/13 | 2025/01/06 | 2025/01/31 | 2025/02/21 | 7 weeks |
Winter B | 2025/03/03 | 2025/02/25 | 2025/02/25 | 2025/03/03 | 2025/03/31 | 2025/04/17 | 7 weeks |
Spring/Summer A | 2025/05/05 | 2025/04/29 | 2025/04/29 | 2025/05/05 | 2025/05/31 | 2025/06/20 | 7 weeks |
Spring/Summer B | 2025/06/30 | 2025/06/24 | 2025/06/24 | 2025/06/30 | 2025/07/31 | 2025/08/15 | 7 weeks |
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Admissions
Follow these streamlined steps for admission into the Honours BBA – Accounting
Review the streamlined admission process below for the online Honours Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting program from Sheridan College.
Admission Requirements:
- Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent
- Complete an online application
You must meet the following requirements for admission to the online Honours BBA – Accounting program.
- Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, including these required courses:
- English, Grade 12 (ENG4U or equivalent) with a minimum grade of 65%
PLUS
- Mathematics, Grade 12(U) (MCV4U, MDM4U, MHF4U or equivalent university-level Math) with a minimum grade of 60%
- Students who do not possess a university-level Math with a minimum 60% or who have achieved a grade below 60% may complete Sheridan’s Mathematical Functions for Business (MATH18263) course, which is offered through Continuing and Professional Studies. A minimum grade of 60% in MATH18263 is required for admission.
- Four other Grade 12 subjects (U or M) with a minimum grade of 60%
- Minimum 65% overall average
OR
- Two semesters of postsecondary education, including required courses, with a minimum of 65% overall average
Application Selection
Eligible applicants are selected on the basis of previous academic achievement (the average of their six highest senior-level credits, including required courses). Applicants who do not meet the admission requirements for this program may be advised individually regarding other related programs.
Courses
Here are the course specifics for the BBA Accounting degree program
To graduate from the online Honours BBA – Accounting program, you must complete a total of 120 credit hours, including 81 credit hours of core courses and 39 credit hours of elective courses.
Learning outcomes:
Learning outcomes:
- Discuss how undergrad competencies may be used in their field of study, internship work-term and future career
- Reflect on their current skill level with respect to the undergrad competencies
- Create developmental goals for each competency
- Use collaboration and leadership skills to work effectively in a variety of groups
- Incorporate basic curiosity and imagination techniques in order to explore ideas beyond the first ones that might have come to mind
- Assess information that would be suitable to support the decision-making process in a typical workplace
- Use a variety of techniques to analyze data in order to aid the decision-making process
- Manage disappointments and risk-taking to follow through with tasks that have been assigned
- Practise professional business communication skills to share information in written and oral formats
- Apply agility and adaptability skills to manage the stress of fluctuating requirements and adapt to new and/or changing environments
- Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills in order to explore a variety of perspectives and generate potential solutions to typical workplace challenges
- Reflect on the development of the undergraduate competences over the semester
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Develop strategies that will help them to operate successfully in the flipped classroom environment
- Identify opportunities for learning growth and development based on self-assessments on mindset and grit
- Discuss their preferred behaviour patterns based on a self-assessment and how that impacts on their learning experiences
- Explore ways to expand the number of learning techniques they use in their studies based on data that identifies their current preferred learning style
- Create strategies for overcoming typical time management challenges such as procrastination and lack of planning to support their success as a learner at Sheridan College
- Apply a variety of strategies to improve their study skills in the transition towards becoming a self-directed learner
- Create a learning development plan that will ease the transition to higher education and support ongoing success as a learner at Sheridan College
- Discuss Sheridan's Academic Integrity Policy and how it will impact on their learning experiences
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Identify relevant financial data used in making business decisions
- Examine the financial accounting elements to be considered when making a decision that impacts an entity's financial position
- Explain the information communicated in different parts of financial statements
- Prepare financial statements using Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises (ASPE) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
- Analyze financial accounting information to assist in effective management decision-making
- Use appropriate financial software to complete financial analyses
Learning outcomes:
- Explain properties of linear, quadratic, exponential and logarithmic functions
- Model simple business situations as a system of linear equations and inequalities
- Compute basic matrix operations
- Apply appropriate techniques for finding derivatives
- Identify critical points of a function through the application of derivatives
- Identify maxima and minima through application of Lagrange multipliers
- Compute partial derivatives for functions of several variables
- Compute anti-derivatives
- Compute the area under a curve using definite integrals
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. meet due dates b. produce professional-quality assignments c. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Develop business messages that inform, request, persuade, and/or convey goodwill
- Apply communication strategies to accommodate different audiences
- Use research tools, including library databases and other online resources, to find relevant research sources
- Use APA guidelines to integrate research sources into writing
- Create a variety of business reports and presentations that are clear, concise and audience-focused
- Use appropriate communication channels and formatting to reinforce the intended message for the intended audience
- Apply ethical decision making when communicating both through speech and through writing
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Analyze the mixed economic system and its focus on satisfying consumer needs and profit generation
- Compare different economic systems with Canada's mixed economic system
- Assess the various business ownership types
- Discuss the role and importance of entrepreneurship and innovation in the economy
- Describe trends in international business, including free trade and globalization
- Describe the importance and implications of business ethics and social responsibility in an enterprise
- Distinguish the types of management skills and strategic responsibilities that are required to carry out the management functions in planning, organizing, leading and controlling
- Explain each discipline according to its operational and strategic roles, as well as relationships to other disciplines
- Recommend appropriate strategic and operational plans for a simulated business case
- Evaluate the importance of and implications for organizations when embracing a culture of continuous improvement through change management
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Assess core business processes including order-to-cash, procure-to-pay and integrated production process
- Describe supporting business processes including Finance Accounting and Management Accounting (Controlling)
- Differentiate among a variety of business operations models including: make-to-stock, make-to-order, engineer-to-order and outsourcing
- Assess the impact of "master data" and "transactional data" requirements on how Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software supports an enterprise
- Assign typical activities in a business process to functional areas within an enterprise
- Simulate business transactions through entire business processes using an ERP system
- Predict relevant impacts on business operations resulting from a change in a process
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Measure basic macroeconomic variables (e.g., gross domestic product [real and nominal], the price level, the unemployment rate, the money supply)
- Analyze the measurement of basic macroeconomic phenomena
- Explain the influence of inflation and unemployment on economic growth
- Rationalize the government's policies towards inflation and unemployment
- Explain how commercial banks use deposit-taking and issuing loans to create money
- Explain the linkage between government fiscal policies (expenditures and taxation) and the level of national output
- Analyze the influence of the different fiscal policies on the aggregate supply model
- Compare basic macroeconomic models, including classical macro theory, Keynesian macro theory and the recent revisions of rational expectations, supply-side and general equilibrium theories
- Evaluate the effectiveness of international economic policies and programs
- Explain the impact of globalization on macroeconomics variables
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. meet due dates b. produce professional-quality assignments c. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Explain the fundamental concepts of the market system scarcity, choice, opportunity costs and marginal analysis
- Communicate economic concepts with graphs and algebra
- Determine the main variables involved in economic problems and their relationships
- Develop models for explaining the decisions of consumers and producers in a market economy by utilizing such techniques as supply and demand analysis, utility and profit maximization
- Explain how elasticity and utility modify the allocation of goods/services
- Relate short-run and long-run costs to firms' production decisions
- Describe the impact of supply, demand, economic rent and profit on factor markets
- Evaluate different market structures in terms of consumer welfare and profit maximization
- Explain market failure and the need for government intervention in a market economy
- Appraise government policies and their effects on the economic behaviour on households and businesses
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. meet due dates b. produce professional-quality assignments c. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Describe the research approaches and disciplines that contribute to organizational behaviour as a behavioural science
- Describe how perception, personality, values, attitudes and stress influence employee behaviour and organizational performance
- Apply motivation concepts to enhance job satisfaction and enthusiasm
- Evaluate factors influencing team effectiveness within organizations
- Demonstrate effective communication skills within organizational contexts
- Apply contemporary conflict management techniques to various sources of conflict
- Assess sources of power within an organization and the influence of politics on organizational decision-making
- Apply the various leadership theories and their impact on organizational functions
- Explain the role that organizational culture plays in influencing employee behaviour
- Identify the key elements and traditional versus contemporary designs of organizational structure
- Outline approaches for managing change including resistance
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Analyze customer buyer behaviour and motivation, in order to accurately position brands
- Conduct macro-environmental and competitive analyses in preparation for developing a marketing plan
- Identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats relating to a brand, and use these as a basis for formulating marketing strategies
- Construct market segments, target markets, and product positioning, to focus all marketing communications
- Develop an integrated marketing plan for a brand, including product, pricing, promotion and distribution action plans, with rationale and controls
- Create a basic communications plan within the context of a marketing plan, including advertising, public relations, promotion, social media, internet marketing and personal selling
- Assess domestic and global marketing strategies that will provide enterprises with a competitive advantage
- Identify ethical and social responsibility issues facing companies and brands
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Discuss the role of management accounting in achieving an organization's strategic focus
- Assess cost systems to determine an appropriate system for organizations
- Evaluate management information to determine the unit cost of a product (or service) and to make appropriate pricing decisions
- Apply cost accounting terminology, concepts and procedures used to facilitate planning and decision making
- Analyze a company's cost-volume-profit relationships to evaluate affects of change on the company's overall financial position
- Perform incremental analysis using relevant cost information for short-term decision making
- Perform budgetary planning that support an organization's strategies and analyze variances within costing systems to evaluate performance
- Measure and evaluate performance using various techniques
Learning outcomes:
- Prepare reports pertinent to the business environment and environmental sustainability considering different research methodologies, and research ethics implications
- Differentiate between quantitative and qualitative methods of inquiry
- Critically evaluate research for validity, reliability and generalizability
- Conduct data analysis and interpret research findings from a business perspective
- Create a research proposal for a specific business opportunity following a structured research process
- Draw supportable conclusions based on both quantitative and qualitative methods
- Communicate clearly and concisely to appropriate stakeholders in appropriate verbal, written and visual forms
- Identify sources of information using appropriate research tools
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Understand the essential elements of Information Systems, the importance of data, information and knowledge and the components of Computer-Based Information Systems
- Understand the fundamental Information technology components of hardware, software, networks, and databases and explain how these components work together
- Explain the different types of business information systems that organizations employ, the ways these information systems are used, and why their use is essential for successful organizations
- Describe how organizations acquire and develop information systems for their organization
- Understand the concepts of privacy, security, and ethical considerations when organizations design, develop and use information systems
- Apply a recognized data analytics process for different types of data analytics
- Prepare data for analysis, ensuring data is validated, duplicates are removed, and privacy and security of the data is recognized
- Apply various data analytics functionalities of Excel to solve simulated data focused problems
- Develop data storytelling solutions using powerful data visualization tools such as Microsoft PowerBI and Tableau
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional quality assignments
Learning outcomes:
- Apply legal analysis in evaluating business scenarios
- Explain the importance of law in managing business risks and identifying business opportunities
- Identify the fundamental features of the Canadian legal system including the constitutional division of power, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and how laws are made
- Apply the law of contracts including what a contract is, how a contract is formed, remedies available for breach of contract, and contractual defects
- Apply the law of tort including negligence torts and intentional torts
- Evaluate the appropriate forms of business organization in different scenarios
- Assess basic legal problems arising from business scenarios in the areas of contracts, torts, forms of business organization, intellectual property, secured transactions, and other areas
- Evaluate current legal topics of interest to business
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. meet due dates b. produce professional-quality assignments c. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Interpret the measures of descriptive statistics and their uses in reports
- Choose an appropriate method to solve probability problems
- Determine probabilities using the normal distribution
- Create a sample design including the type of sample and sample size
- Determine the critical values for a hypothesis test to compare properties of two populations
- Analyze the results of a hypothesis test to inform decisions
- Calculate a trend line, a regression line, and multiple regression coefficients to describe a set of data
- Interpret index numbers to assess changes in data
- Evaluate a company's financial options through application of statistical decision theory
- Develop a linear programming model to describe a business situation
- Interpret the results of a linear program to inform business decisions
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. meet due dates b. produce professional-quality assignments c. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Value securities by applying the concepts of time value of money, inflation and taxation
- Apply the main capital budgeting methods to make appropriate investment decisions
- Evaluate corporate performance and worth through the use of financial ratio analysis and industry comparisons
- Assess a company's credit worthiness from the analysis of financial statements and the development of appropriate financial ratios
- Discuss the principal/agent relationship in financial dealings
- Evaluate various sources of financing available to a corporation
- Predict project and corporate cash flows, applying sensitivity analysis to optimize corporate decisions
- Analyze a company's finance function, (corporate finance, treasury, capital management, accounting etc ) its operation and its relationship to other functional areas (marketing, HR etc )
- Use appropriate financial software to complete financial analyses
- Present appropriate data in professional format to support decision making
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Relate the key functional areas of a company to their roles in the supply or service chain
- Describe how the supply chain and operations support the overall strategy of an organization
- Explain the impact of economies of scale on the capacity of a company
- Describe the organization of production processes within the framework of the Product-Process matrix
- Contrast the characteristics of service processes and manufacturing processes
- Distinguish between the various dimensions of quality
- Differentiate between Purchasing and Strategic Sourcing
- Explain the impact of facility location on supply chain performance
- Describe the impact of distribution policies in relation to inventory levels, location and flows
- Contrast qualitative and quantitative demand forecasting techniques
- Discuss appropriate risk mitigation options for different areas of operations
- Discuss the importance of inventory management
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Describe the essential characteristics of accounting and the conceptual framework for financial reporting
- Explain the various steps in the accounting cycle
- Prepare a multi-step income statement, classified statement of financial position and cash flow statement in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
- Compare alternative revenue recognition policies and performance obligations
- Determine how current and long- term assets are reported, recognized, measured, presented and analyzed in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and the conceptual framework
- Identify the use of fair market values, lower of cost & net realizable value and tests for impairment, in the valuation of various assets for financial reporting purposes
- Apply rules related to the de-recognition of various assets
- Contrast how the costs of various assets (including inventory, tangible and intangible long-term assets) are charged/allocated to expenses over the period of benefit
- Differentiate the valuation and income recognition methods employed to account for various current and long-term investments in securities
- Use data and analytics tools to make and communicate decisions
Learning outcomes:
- Identify differences in financial reporting for public and private entities
- Demonstrate how various liabilities (debt) and equities are reported in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
- Distinguish debt from equity, current liabilities from long-term liabilities and financial from non-financial liabilities
- Apply present value concepts and effective interest amortization methods to various long-term liabilities
- Explain the accounting treatment for various transactions affecting shareholders’ equity
- Describe the accounting for compensatory stock option plans
- Prepare appropriate accounting entries, supporting calculations and financial statement presentations for earnings per share, corporate income taxes and defined benefit pension plans
- Differentiate the accounting treatment of capital vs operating leases by a lessee and financing vs sale-type leases by a lessor
- Contrast the accounting treatment applied to changes in accounting policy and correction of prior-year accounting errors, with the treatment of changes in accounting estimates
- Identify the appropriate accounting treatment of other disclosure issues related to segmented information, interim financial reporting, related-party transactions and subsequent events
- Use appropriate financial software to complete financial analyses
Learning outcomes:
- Use relevant cost analysis and strategic analysis in evaluating various short-term decisions
- Develop optimal product mix decision with multiple constraints
- Apply capital budgeting decision models and evaluate capital investment projects
- Prepare budgets and develop various measures to analyze financial and non-financial measures used for management control
- Identify and apply various strategic methods to develop costing and pricing
- Identify the strategic role and objectives of responsibility accounting and transfer pricing
- Perform various performance measures computations and analysis
- Develop a comprehensive framework for the management and control of quality
- Identify the types of management reporting needs and systems
- Utilize various tools and software in performing different types of analysis
Learning outcomes:
- Discuss the degree, designation, and experience requirements and qualifications of auditors
- Differentiate between the various types of audits, auditors, and reasons for each audit
- Explain the rules of professional ethics and legal liability for the accounting/auditing profession
- Apply the generally accepted auditing standards to the planning of an audit
- Evaluate a client's internal control system to assess data quality and risk
- Prepare a basic audit program outlining the tests for a company's system of internal controls
- Describe the transactions, documents, confirmations, controls and accounts included in the sales, acquisitions and disbursements cycles
- Explain the procedures for inventory counts, inventory observation, and cutoff tests
- Describe the audit tests, transactions, documents, accounts and controls of the production cycle, payroll cycle, finance and investment cycle
- Prepare analytical and detailed audit tests for overall revenue and expense accounts
- Analyze financial information, data quality and analytical models to assess risk and determine appropriate response to assessed risk
- Demonstrate professional behaviour, including: a. meet due dates b. produce professional-quality assignments c. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Determine the residency tax status of an individual and the resulting potential liability for federal income tax
- Distinguish between business income, property income and capital gains
- Specify the tax treatment of income and expenses from various sources
- Prepare a capital cost allowance and capital property schedule according to the capital cost allowance regulations
- Interpret compliance regulations in order to minimize a taxpayer's exposure to interest and penalties
- Specify the tax treatment of the disposition of various types of capital property
- Calculate net income for tax purposes (Division B income)
- Compute taxable income utilizing deductions from net income for tax purposes
- Optimize the use of personal tax credits when determining federal tax payable
- Assess the tax implications of various types of income in order to maximize an individual's goals
- Formulate recommendations using sound research from the Income Tax Act and Bulletins, Circulars and Rulings from Canada Revenue Agency
- Analyze GST/HST obligations and calculate net tax for an individual
- Analyze financial and tax information using a variety of software tools
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Apply the primary theoretical frameworks and perspectives of ethics in critiquing and assessing business strategies and decisions
- Assess the sustainability of businesses from economic, social and environmental perspectives
- Evaluate the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of domestic and international business activities by applying Carroll's pyramid of responsibilities
- Apply stakeholder analysis by examining the key stakeholders of a business, in particular, owners/shareholders, customers, employees and communities, in order to assess business decisions from a CSR perspective
- Identify ethical and sustainability issues related to corporate governance
- Apply environmental, social and governance (ESG) as a framework to assess an organization's business practices and performance with regard to sustainability and ethics
- Determine the role of business in the pursuit of the United Nations’ sustainability development goals (SDGs)
- Evaluate ethical issues arising from manufacturing and sourcing from foreign countries
- Explain the impacts of climate change and the potential roles of countries, organizations, and individuals in mitigating those impacts
- Examine topics of current interest involving ethics, sustainability and CSR including issues arising from the use of technology such as social media and artificial intelligence
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials (including artificial intelligence tools) responsibly and appropriately
Learning outcomes:
- Describe the state of entrepreneurship and small business in Canada
- Outline the impact of government on small business
- Create a self-development plan based on demographic and personality characteristics of successful entrepreneurs
- Incorporate an entrepreneurial philosophical approach to problems and opportunities
- Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of creating a business, buying a business, or running a franchise
- Assess different forms of business ownership, including incorporation, partnership, strategic alliance, and licenced distributor
- Describe alternatives to financing entrepreneurial business ventures
- Create a unique new business concept using ideation methodologies
- Construct a feasibility analysis for a new business opportunity
- Develop an investor-ready business plan for presentation to potential investors
- Critique business plans from an investor perspective
- Utilize financial ratios to assess an existing small business
- Construct a cash flow statement, an income statement, and balance sheet for a new business
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Compare the nature of political, economic, cultural and social systems in major countries of the world
- Evaluate the benefits and challenges of the global business environment for Canada
- Generate practical business action plans that mitigate the risks of international business in Canada while exploiting the advantages
- Analyze the role of international trade agreements and their implications for business
- Explain the role of international trade and monetary institutions in today's global business environment
- Develop practical and creative strategies and solutions for use by firms operating in an international business environment
- Assess the human resource function of a Multinational Enterprise and recommend actions for the global human resource function
- Evaluate how an Multinational Enterprise's organizational structure is designed to support its global strategy
- Communicate effectively in written and oral form using appropriate international business terminology
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Analyze contemporary issues in academic and professional accounting literature
- Apply the decision usefulness approach to financial reporting
- Assess the implication of efficient securities markets on financial reporting
- Compare the information approach and the measurement approach to decision usefulness
- Evaluate accounting policy choices using the Positive Accounting Theory
- Recognize the influence of Agency Theory and Game Theory on accounting policy choices
- Determine the relationship between the discretionary and non-discretionary components of executive compensation and earning management behaviour
- Evaluate the economic and political issues influencing standard setting in the accounting profession
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Describe the key components of a strategic plan
- Identify key stakeholder groups and their criteria for success
- Perform a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis and PESTLE analysis to inform strategic direction considering domestic and international environments
- Create mission and vision statements and core values for an organization
- Develop strategic objectives aligning with functional priorities, identifying implementation/execution critical success factors
- Design a scorecard to capture the key performance indicators
- Develop a financial plan aligned to the strategic plan
- Deliver a strategic direction report and presentation
- Identify human resources and change management improvements as well as value chain and operational improvement in pursuit of a company's strategic direction
- Apply marketing principles to a company's strategic direction
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Create a shareable showcase e-portfolio designed for use in their discipline
- Synthesize their development in the BBA Undergraduate Competencies
- Integrate feedback on their draft portfolio
- Incorporate personally meaningful self-awareness, self-management, and reflective practice into final showcase portfolio
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Create a relevant statement of work for the business client project
- Assess the industry and external environment in which the business client is competing
- Perform an internal analysis of the business client using analytical tools to assess a company's industry position
- Evaluate the competitive environment of the industry in which the business client competes
- Assess the components of the business client's strategic plan, marketing strategy, and revenue model to guide the goals of the project
- Evaluate relevant operational plans of the business client and provide recommendations for future implementation
- Develop the business client's financial model, forecast plans and risk mitigation strategies
- Propose an action plan and timeline for recommendations
- Communicate professionally to the business client, through meetings, emails, assignments and an executive summary presentation
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Demonstrate adherence to business research methodology
- Develop a research proposal that includes research problem/objectives, theoretical framework, and appropriate quantitative and qualitative research methodology
- Analyze and interpret research findings related to a business problem and/or research objectives
- Conduct an integrative/critical review of the literature
- Present the findings of the research in a format suitable for submission to a peer-reviewed journal
- Present orally the findings of research
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. meet due dates b. produce professional-quality assignments c. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Analyze argumentative essays and articles
- Produce detailed critical responses to texts, both written and oral
- Evaluate evidence presented in various arguments
- Integrate primary and secondary sources in the construction of clear, organized research essays and presentations
- Formulate original and informed ideas about a selection of topics and contemporary issues
- Design arguments based on theoretical models
- Collaborate with group members using effective interpersonal communication techniques
- Use proper styles of documentation
Choose 5 business electives from the courses below.
Learning outcomes:
- Describe fundamentals of international economics and finance
- Classify and analyze the roles of international institutions, including United Nations role on sustainable production, consumption, and trade
- Explain classical and modern trade theories
- Apply economic principles to interpret various aspects of global trade policies
- Discuss the reasons of tariffs and non-tariff barriers to trade and their impact on regional and international trade
- Assess trade policies, labour and environmental standards on international trade
- Develop analytical methods to analyze international trade issues
- Discuss global finance and investment, foreign exchange mechanisms, exchange rate policy, and global capital market and their impact
- Assess regional issues in global economy
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. meet due dates b. produce professional quality reports and presentations c. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Compare the ways in which business is conducted, in general terms, in selected global environments
- Compare management skills required under selected global business environments
- Analyze specific culture-sensitive models of business communication
- Analyze cultural values in relation to issues of social organization, context, and authority and management
- Evaluate the implications of the values of a particular culture in the areas of business communication, management and negotiation
- Design effective strategies for use in communication, negotiations, cross cultural conflict and management in multi-cultural settings that reflect cultural awareness and respect
- Critique personal views and perspectives against a framework of cultural awareness
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality reports and presentations d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Discuss the project management knowledge areas covered by the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Body of Knowledge
- Prepare risk assessment and mitigation strategies
- Evaluate tradeoffs between time, costs, scope and quality
- Apply project management knowledge areas to initiate, plan, execute, monitor, control, and close projects
- Use software to manage project throughout its different phases
- Develop solutions to domestic and international issues leading to successful project management processes documents and outcomes
- Develop project management plans that integrate stakeholder perspectives
- Propose appropriate solutions to case studies and assignments
- Effectively communicate through individual and group reports
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Identify contemporary and emerging issues related to special topics
- Complete a formal literature review and a literature review paper
- Assess contemporary and emerging issues related to specific thematic or discipline-based business topics
- Discuss the importance and implications of contemporary and emerging issues to the business environment
- Assess the business challenges and opportunities associated with identified contemporary and emerging issues
- Evaluate contemporary and emerging issues from the organizational, domestic and/or global perspective
- Identify appropriate recommendations, analysis or future research to facilitate a better understanding of business challenges and opportunities
- Apply the case writing process
- Demonstrate professional behaviours including: a. meet due dates b. produce professional-quality assignments c. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Discuss the importance of creativity and innovation within an organizational context
- Utilize creative processes, tools and techniques to generate ideas and problem solve
- Differentiate between different types of innovation including product, process, and business model innovation
- Assess how an organization's structure and culture can impact creativity and innovation
- Identify different characteristics of innovative organizations
- Assess different sources and factors that aid innovation within an organization
- Describe how successful organizations differentiate themselves in the development of new products
- Evaluate strategies and business processes used by organizations to foster sustaining and disruptive innovations
- Recommend alternative business models used to capture new market opportunities
- Explain different strategies for acquiring and maintaining intellectual capital used in the innovation process
- Assess the impact of disruptive innovation at an industry level
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Develop recommendations to management using advanced financial concepts
- Compute capital budgeting alternatives to maximize return on investment
- Identify long term sources of financing to optimize an entity's capital structure
- Recommend a dividend policy to maximize market value of corporate securities
- Evaluate special financing and investment alternatives
- Assess the impact of risk management decisions in a complex corporate environment
- Analyze the use of futures, forwards, options and swaps for alternative sources of corporate securities and risk management
- Construct effective financial plans in a complex global environment
- Explain the impact on stakeholders of volatile financial markets and decision-making
- Analyze financial information using a variety of software tools
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Understand the value of information and information systems to organizations and the impacts on organizational decision making
- Acquire fundamental information systems knowledge including basic systems concepts, technology infrastructure/architecture and systems development
- Understand how the quality of data and information and the presentation of information impacts decision making at organizations
- Describe basic data and information modelling concepts including data standards, data analytics, data models and database management systems
- Develop a working accounting based relational database system consistent with fundamental relational data management principles and concepts
- Apply various data analytics concepts, skills and tools to develop business intelligence information and visualizations
- Understand how the different types of information systems provide the information required for organizations to meet their objectives
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of emerging accounting technologies including the impacts they have on the accounting field
- Examine the various information systems risks and the controls and strategies required for information systems risk management
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. work effectively in a team environment b. meet due dates c. produce professional-quality assignments d. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Appraise the theory and procedures surrounding the audit assurance process
- Analyze materiality to determine the amounts and types of errors that would constitute a substantial error when reporting financial results
- Develop an overall audit strategy when planning an assurance audit
- Analyze the internal controls of a company, including the related processes, using knowledge of data requirements and risk exposure
- Evaluate audit sampling to ensure the absence of a non-biased sample through analytical procedures
- Test the feasibility of financial statement balances through financial statement analysis
- Select accounts for substantive testing and evidence collection
- Evaluate the sufficiency and appropriateness of audit evidence using data visualization where appropriate
- Evaluate the reporting systems, data quality and the analytical models including Audit Data Analytics (ADA) and other issues to determine sufficiency of the reporting details
- Plan the audit of consolidated, not-for-profit and public sector organizations
- Analyze financial information to assess risk and determine appropriate response to assessed risk
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. meet due dates b. produce professional quality assignments c. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Compute taxable income and taxes payable for public, private and Canadian Controlled Private Corporations (CCPCs)
- Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating both business and investment income in a private corporation
- Evaluate alternative methods whereby a shareholder-manager is remunerated by a private corporation
- Determine the tax consequences of specific transactions involving shareholder loans, shareholder appropriations and sale of qualifying small business corporation shares
- Describe the various rights and obligations of taxpayers and the Canada Revenue Agency under the Income Tax Act
- Compare the after-tax effects of selling assets versus shares on the disposition of an incorporated business
- Identify the tax effects of various corporate distributions and the winding-up of a corporation
- Illustrate the tax effective transfer of assets to a corporation under s85(1), giving appropriate consideration to various pitfalls
- Outline various rollover provisions available under the Income Tax Act and under what circumstances they would apply or could be elected
- Describe the nature of partnerships and trusts, various types of trusts and their uses in tax planning
- Analyze financial and tax information using a variety of software tools
- Demonstrate professional behaviours, including: a. meet due dates b. produce professional-quality assignments c. use reference materials responsibly
Learning outcomes:
- Present financial instruments in accordance with current handbook requirements
- Recognize intercompany investments using the equity method
- Apply consolidation techniques for investments in subsidiaries
- Determine the appropriate accounting procedures for investments in joint ventures
- Identify the segmented information and entity wide disclosures that are required to be reported
- Evaluate methods for translating foreign currency transactions
- Assess accounting treatment options for hedge transactions
- Apply the foreign currency transaction approach to the translation of foreign subsidiary financial statements
- Explain the appropriate accounting treatment options for not-for-profit organizations and public/government entities
- Analyze financial information using a variety of software tools
Gain real-world work experience before graduation
In the accounting program, you'll have the benefit of completing a mandatory work term as part of your business degree. This provides valuable work experience and allows you to practice and finesse skills and concepts learned in class. Students who have already obtained more than 420 hours of program-related work experience can apply to have that previous experience applied to the internship credit during their studies.
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