Accounting Diploma

The Accounting Diploma program at Create Career College (CCC) is designed to prepare students in the field of accounting, finance, and taxation. The structure of the program includes lectures, assignments, and projects. In addition, the Accounting Diploma program is carefully aligned with the requirements of Chartered Professional Accountant and Public Business Accountancy. Therefore, students are prepared for the preliminary courses.
Our experienced accounting instructors with CPA qualifications supervise students with their assignments and projects to offer a real-world perspective to the students.
Upon successful completion of the Accounting Diploma program at CCC, students are qualified for entry-level bookkeeping, payroll, and taxation positions.

Program Length

*Total Program Length: 52 Weeks (Each course will have 100 lecture hours.)

Academic Admission Requirement

English Requirement

To enter the Accounting Diploma program, applicants must meet 1 of the following English proficiency requirements:

Completion of Create Career College (CCC College)’s English as a Secondary Language (ESL) program. ESL is a prerequisite language program designed for international students who want to enrol in academic or vocational courses at Create Career College (CCC College), or
Obtaining a minimum score of 80 on TOEFL iBT, or a minimum band score of 6.0 on IELTS academic module, or
Successful completion of Grade 12 from a Canadian High School or equivalent, or
Completion of an approved English test, successful assessment by Create Career College (CCC College), or
A score of 60% on Create Career College English Placement Test.

Course Listing

Computer Business Applications

This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to learn and become proficient Microsoft Office users. The course will focus on Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. In Outlook, students will learn to prepare emails and utilize various functions of Outlook for better electronic communication. In Excel, students will learn to prepare and edit worksheets, using formulas and different functions offered in Excel to complete different tasks. In Word, students will learn to edit and format documents to meet different standers. Finally, students will learn to create and give presentations using PowerPoint in a business set up.

Business Communication

When hiring, employers rank communication skills among the most requested competencies. This course provides students with a deep understanding of business writing––letters, reports, memoranda, e-mails and summaries––as well as training their reasoning and analytical skills through critical reading.

Basic Statistics

This statistics course is to give students an understanding of the role of statistics in business and commerce. It will become clear how pervasive the use of statistics has become and how essential the basic concepts are to modern business practice. Students will learn thoroughly the basics of data analysis and the fundamental notion of statistical inference. The statistics learned in this course will provide the knowledge necessary to apply the basic techniques in a wide variety of circumstances and, perhaps more importantly, will enable students to assess the legitimacy and significance of the many and varied reports that we come across during career.
The course will enable students to understand and analyze the future impact of decisions throughout an organization. It will give you the necessary knowledge, tools, and skills to analyze problems logically, carry out mathematical operations, and investigate issues scientifically.

Financial Accounting 1

Financial Accounting-1 is designed for students who want to understand the accounting function of a business in the modern environment at the national or international level. After completion of this course, students will have a solid knowledge of the accounting cycle, internal control, and taxes. Students will also have the ability to analyze and record simple business transactions, post transactions in relevant ledger accounts, estimate uncollectible, prepare payroll, and complete accounting cycle. The Financial Accounting 1 course is a 4-week course with 25 hours of classroom learning per week. This course will be delivered and supervised by the expert in their field. Throughout the course, the instructor will use a variety of methods to disseminate and assess the learning of students. These methods include, but are not limited to lectures, exercises, in-class, and home assignments, midterm exams, and final exams.

Financial Accounting 2

The Financial Accounting 2 course is a continuum of Financial Accounting 1 and it expands knowledge of accounting based on the structure of the balance sheet. Spread on 4 weeks duration, Financial Accounting 2 is designed for the students who have completed Financial Accounting 1 and are familiar with basics concepts of accounting. The delivering method is similar to Financial Accounting 1 with experienced instructors and a variety of methods including lectures, exercises, assignments. The course will provide knowledge and skills in a series of modules to be delivered in the classroom. Upon completion of this course, students will have accounting knowledge, and skills related to calculating the amortization of bonds, manage the accounting of long-term assets, current liabilities, perform financial analysis using financial ratios, vertical and horizontal analysis, and more.

Payroll and Taxation in Canada

In Canada, employers are required to apply payroll deductions for income tax, old sge pension and employment insurance. The main objective of this course is to give students a basic understanding of the Canadian payroll and taxation systems. Courses provide an overview of processing payroll calculation and administrating employee payroll. An important element of this course is the preparation of individual and business tax returns, and applying the Goods and Services Tax (GST).

Accounting Software: Quickbooks

Accounting Software is critical in the current job market. This course will provide the students with an opportunity to get equipped with the latest instruments used in the field of accounting. Most small businesses in Canada are using QuickBooks for accounting purposes. QuickBooks will provide the opportunity to create an output based on what they learned the basics of financial accounting. Upon completion of this course, students will have a solid understanding of terminologies and concepts related to software accounting. In addition, this course will also equip students with skills to set up and close company, customer, and vendor accounts in QuickBooks, enter transactions for receivables and payables, create invoices and payroll, manage bank accounts and credit cards, and create financial statements.

Accounting Software: Sage 50

Sage50 is one of the most widely used software in the field of bookkeeping and accounting in Canada. So far, students have learned the basics of financial accounting, managerial accounting, and other related areas. They have also gone through an accounting software QuickBooks that is largely being used by small and medium-size businesses in Canada. Sage50 will provide the students with an opportunity to get equipped with more elaborative and detailed latest instruments used in the field of accounting. Upon completion of this course, students will have a solid understanding of the Sage50 structure. This course will also equip students with skills to set up, adjust, and close company, customer, vendor, and payroll accounts, enter transactions for receivables and payables, create inventory transactions in Sage50, complete bank transactions, and create financial statements.

Introductory Managerial Accounting

This is an introductory course relating to key concepts and practices of management accounting with emphasis on decision-making. The main objective is to help students relate management accounting decisions to the company’s success. Topics include cost accounting fundamentals, costing methods, cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting and control, and information for management control and decision analysis. Student will be able to apply most of the concept learned in previous accounting and finance courses.

Introduction to Finance

In this introductory course on corporate finance, students learn how financial professionals make major decisions. It includes a wide range of topics including interest rates, budgeting, estimating cash flow, dividends, derivatives, working capital and financial planning.

Microeconomics

In this course, students will learn the basic concepts of the economic behaviour individuals, businesses and government. An understanding of microeconomics is important for understanding customer behaviour, setting prices and anticipating government actions. Topics include market equilibrium, supply and demand and different market structures like oligopoly and monopoly. This course will also cover possible government intervention in case of market failure.

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics deals with large-scale or general economic factors, such as interest rates, monetary policy and national productivity. This course covers concepts like Gross Domestic/National Product, employment, inflation, stabilization policies, money, banking and international trade.

Business Law

Managing one’s own business or working at the workplace as manager or employee, has a number of aspects that should be taken care of legal perspective. If these aspects are not been taken care of properly, these can harm the business with a big amount of liabilities and can result in shutdown of business or incur personal liabilities. The course on Business Law in Canada introduces the basics of business law to students to prepare them for business problems relating to legal issues. This course highlights the key policies, rights, responsibility and regulations most concerned in today’s business world. Upon completion of this course, students will have a solid understanding of business law in Canada and the Canadian legal system. Students will be able to distinguish the difference between Federal and Provincial legislative structure, understanding contract law, its elements, formation, its terms, and conditions and justify stipulation/conditions of enforcement and non-enforcement, and knowledge of in-court and out-of-court dispute resolution options.