Accounting, 1-Year Certificate

Your at-home learning program includes courses designed to take you step-by-step through the techniques and skills you’ll employ in your new career in Accounting. Your first course will be sent to you as soon as your enrolment has been accepted. Other courses will follow as you complete your exams, so that you will always have training materials to work with.

You will need access to a Microsoft® Windows®-based computer (running Windows Vista® or later) and the Internet in order to complete your program with ICS Canada.

Here is an overview of what you’ll learn and the order in which you’ll receive your learning materials:

Introduction to Accounting
Opportunities in accounting; types of business organizations; the nature of accounting.

Accounting I
Transactions and their effect on financial reports; determining the profitability
of operations; analyzing the owner’s interest in a business; the statement of cash flows; recording transactions; journal entries and posting to accounts; periodic adjustments; closing the accounts; the work sheet; a comprehensive review of the accounting cycle for a service business; accounts and procedures for a merchandising business; preparation of work sheet, financial statements, and closing entries; special journals; payroll accounting; payroll taxes on the employer.

Supplement: Bookkeeping and Accounting in Canada

Principles of Management
Definition of management; history of management; planning and leadership; organization and control; future of management.

Textbook: A Real World Approach

Modern Mathematics
Basic operations and business basics; applications.

Textbook: Mathematics for Business

Accounting II
Accounting for cash; accounting for receivables; notes receivables; accounting for short-term investments; accounting for inventories; accounting for the acquisition and depreciation of property, plant, and equipment; accounting for natural resources and long-lived intangible assets; accounting for long-term investments; accounting for current liabilities; accounting for long-term liabilities; accounting principles and concepts; accounting for partnerships; division of partnership earnings; terminating a partnership; accounting for corporations; retained earnings; consolidated statements; accounting cycle for a firm operating as a corporation; instructions for handling accounting transactions.

Supplement: Internal Control

Business English
A description of the parts of a sentence; how to use the parts of speech to write effectively; subject-verb agreement; use of the active voice; effective use of modifiers; producing correct, polished writing for business; common grammatical problems; descriptions of punctuation marks and the purpose of each; using punctuation to properly document research sources; rules of capitalization; writing complete, correctly structured sentences and unified, coherent paragraphs; sentence length and variety; avoiding run-ons and fragments; constructing organized paragraphs; using particular patterns of organization, content, and language to most effectively convey a specific idea to a specific audience; revising, editing, and proofreading; composing clear, courteous, and complete messages; formatting and etiquette for letters, email, memos, and forms.

Reference: Introduction to Writing

Online Library and Librarian
Students in ICS Canada have access to an online library for use during their studies. Students can use this library to do the required research in the courses they complete or can use it for general reference and links to valuable resources. The library contains helpful research assistance, articles, databases, books, and Web links. A librarian is available to answer questions on general research-related topics via email and to assist students in research activities during their studies with ICS Canada.

We reserve the right to change course content and materials when it becomes necessary.