Online Accounting Courses

The Accounting Career Diploma program provides students with the skills to expand existing accounting management knowledge for a current or future job, or prepare for further education at the undergraduate level.

Upon completion of the program, students will be able to:

• Outline the function of accounting as a means to provide information about the market process, ensuring that decision-makers have the right information to allocate resources, and recognize laws governing business transactions
• Demonstrate the correct recording process, types of accounts, and classification process to record and assess various business transactions
• Outline the use of accounting systems for efficiency and conformity to generally accepted accounting procedures
• Identify how to establish accounting systems for diverse business activities and how to maintain the financial records of these firms
• Demonstrate how to assess financial operations and make best-practices recommendations to management
• Identify ways to reduce costs, enhance revenues, and improve profits

The advantages of learning at home; types of study materials; types of examinations; accessing and using the features of our website; determining what kind of learner you are; establishing a study schedule; using study tips; preparing for and taking examinations.

Opportunities in accounting; types of business organizations; the nature of accounting.

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

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

Basic Operations and business basics; applications

Textbook: Mathematics for Business

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

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.

Textbook: Introduction to Writing

Accounting and financial reporting; the financial statements; additional activities and common disclosures of a business; income taxes; employee compensation; evolution or requirements for earning per share disclosure; accounting changes and error corrections; analysis of financial statements. Cash cycle and revenue recognition; cost of goods sold; financial activities; investments in noncurrent operating assets; investments in securities and review of the conceptual framework.

Textbook: Intermediate Accounting DeMystified

Business organizations; contract law; business operations; advertising and selling.

Property law; limitations on real estate ownership; interests in real estate; freehold estates; less-than-freehold estates; encumbrances; property title; transferring real estate.

Procedure and sources of tort law; civil procedure and tort law; sources of tort law; common tort law; types of torts; nuisance; strict liabilities for products.

Materials, labor and factory overhead; process cost accounting; standard cost accounting; budgeting; service businesses; decision making.

Textbook: Cost Accounting

The building blocks of supply chain strategy; designing the global supply chain; collaborating across the supply chain.

Textbook: Supply Chain Management