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Core Courses

• ACCT 653 Issues in Professional Acct 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Accounting: How fundamental concepts in financial accounting and reporting, including technically complex accounting issues and their audit, performance management, tax and finance implications, are integrated into decision-making.

  Offered by: Management

  • Restriction: Open only to students in the Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting.
  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is June 20, 2023.
  • *Desautels GCPA Prog students only. Intensive course. Add/drop May 23, w/withdrawal Jun 20.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• ACCT 654 Issues in Professional Acct 2 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Accounting: Fundamental concepts in financial accounting and reporting, including technically complex accounting issues and their audit, performance management, tax and finance implications, are integrated into decision-making and strategies through case scenarios.

  Offered by: Management

  • Restriction: Open only to students in the Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting.
  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is June 20, 2023.
  • *Desautels GCPA Prog students only. Intensive course. Add/drop May 25, w/withdrawal Jun 20.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• ACCT 663 Strategic Aspects of Acct 1 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Accounting: Corporate governance, strategy, risk management, and management reporting needs, with a particular emphasis on their integration with accounting practice, finance and taxation. Formulating deliberate and emergent strategies, and translating those strategies into specific objectives and actions which are used in decision-making.

  Offered by: Management

  • Restriction:Open only to students in the Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting.
  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is June 20, 2023.
  • *Desautels GCPA Prog students only. Intensive course. Add/drop May 23, w/withdrawal Jun 20.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• ACCT 664 Strategic Aspects of Acct 2 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Accounting: Corporate governance, strategy, risk management, and management reporting needs, with a particular emphasis on their integration with accounting practice, finance and taxation. Emphasis is also placed on competence required to build good monitoring and control systems and perform financial analysis for different types of entities. Case scenarios are used to integrate these concepts into decision-making.

  Offered by: Management

  • Restriction: Open only to students in the Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting.
  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is June 20, 2023.
  • *Desautels GCPA Prog students only. Intensive course. Add/drop May 25, w/withdrawal Jun 20.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Complementary Courses*

Students choose two complementary courses. Those wishing to obtain the rights to practice in Public Accounting must choose Practice of Taxation and Assurance Services.

• ACCT 683 Practice of Taxation 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Accounting: Providing taxation services and guidance, including assisting individual and corporate entities to minimize taxes and meet their objectives while complying with tax laws and regulations. Addressing compliance and tax-planning issues for both individuals and corporate entities, as well as, to a lesser extent, partnerships and trusts. Recognizing the interrelationship between financial reporting decisions and taxation, and the importance of taking taxes into account when making business and investment decisions.

  Offered by: Management

  • Prerequisite(s): ACCT 653, ACCT 654, ACCT 663, ACCT 664
  • Restriction(s): Open only to students in the Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting (GCPA) program.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2024
  • Instructors
    • Melissa Marginson
• ACCT 685 Course not available
• ACCT 687 Assurance Services 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Accounting: Performing both internal audit projects and external assurance engagements; from understanding how governance plays a key role, assessing the need for an engagement, to developing and performing the procedures, through to documenting and reporting results.

  Offered by: Management

  • Prerequisite(s): ACCT 653, ACCT 654, ACCT 663, ACCT 664
  • Restriction(s): Open only to students in the Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting (GCPA) program.

  • Terms
    • Fall 2024
  • Instructors
    • Amanda S Abrams
• ACCT 689 Financial Business Analysis 3 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Accounting: Developing overall finance policies and identifying, analyzing, evaluating, and recommending investment and financing decisions. Applying appropriate finance principles and conceptual approaches to determine appropriate courses of action. Providing finance-related services for an entity, either individually or as part of a larger team, understanding when the advice of a finance specialist is required, and understanding and communicating with other finance professionals.

  Offered by: Management

  • Prerequisite: ACCT 653, ACCT 654, ACCT 663, ACCT 664
  • Restriction(s): Open only to students in the Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting (GCPA) program.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Integrative Courses

• ACCT 695 Integrative Analysis 4 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Accounting: Integration of the enabling competencies and the six technical competency areas required of a CPA. Developing strategic leadership capabilities and the ability to bring an integrative perspective to decision-making including: professional and ethical behaviour, problem-solving and decision-making, communication (both written and oral), self-management, teamwork and leadership.

  Offered by: Management

  • Prerequisite(s): Any two of the following: ACCT 683, ACCT 685, ACCT 687, ACCT 689.
  • Corequisite: ACCT 699
  • Restriction(s): Open only to students in the Graduate Certificate in Professional Accounting.
  • This is an intensive offering. In addition to Tuesday and Thursday evening classes, there will four (4) Saturday classes offered from 9 to 3 pm.
  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the second lecture day and withdrawal is the fourth lecture day.
  • *Desautels GCPA Prog students only. Intensive course. Add/drop May 17, w/withdrawal Jun 21.
  • **Due to the intensive nature of this course, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is June 21, 2023.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
• ACCT 699 Exam Preparation Seminar 8 Credits

  Offered in the:
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Summer

  
  

  Accounting: Using complex and highly integrative cases that simulate real-life business issues to apply the technical and enabling competencies acquired throughout the CPA certification program. Practicing developing responses to business simulations and communicating a well-structured response.

  Offered by: Management

  • Prerequisites:Any two courses of the following: ACCT 683, ACCT 685, ACCT 687, ACCT 689.
  • Corequisite: ACCT 695
  • This is an intensive offering.
  • **Web add deadline is before the start of classes.
  • **No web drop allowed.
  • **No web withdrawal allowed.

  • Terms
    • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
  • Instructors
    • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year
  听Note: additional fees are charged for this course.

* 鈥婥urrently, for students admitted to the full-time GCPA Program at the Desautels Faculty of Management the only complementary courses that will be offered during the program will be those that allow CPA鈥檚 to practice Public Accounting (Practice of Taxation and Assurance Services). Students wishing to pursue other CPA paths such as Financial Analysis or Performance Measurement (management accounting) should apply to听the National program or the part-time program at the School of Continuing Studies.