Bachelor of Commerce Honors in Accounting [Business]

Year Two—Fall

• ACCTG 311 - Introduction to Accounting for Financial Performance
• BUS 201 - Foundations of Business (see Note 1)
• MARK 301 - Introduction to Marketing
• MGTSC 312 - Probability and Statistics for Business
• 3 units in electives outside Business (see Note 2)

Year Two—Winter

• ACCTG 322 - Introduction to Accounting for Management Decision Making
• BTM 311 - Management Information Systems (see Note 3)
• FIN 301 - Introduction to Finance
• SEM 310 - Introduction to Management, Organization and Entrepreneurship
• 3 units in electives outside Business (see Note 2)

Year Three

• ACCTG 414 - Intermediate Financial Accounting I
• ACCTG 415 - Intermediate Financial Accounting II
• ACCTG 424 - Intermediate Management Accounting
• 3 units in Accounting electives (see Note 6)
• B LAW 301 - Legal Foundations of the Canadian Economy (see Note 4)
• OM 352 - Operations Management (see Note 3)

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• BUEC 311 - Business Economics, Organizations and Management OR
• ECON 281 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory I (see Note 5)

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• FIN 412 - Investment Principles
• 3 units in electives outside Business (see Note 2)
• 3 units in free electives (see Note 2)

Year Four

• ACCTG 418 - Advanced Financial Accounting

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• ACCTG 432 - Financial Statement Analysis I OR
• One additional finance elective above the FIN 301  level (see Note 7).

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• ACCTG 480 - Accounting Honors Seminar Part I
• ACCTG 481 - Accounting Honors Seminar Part II
• 6 units in Accounting electives (see Note 6)
• FIN 422 - Capital Investment
• 9 units in free electives (see Note 2)

Notes

1. Students admitted directly from High School will take BUS 101  in their first year in the Faculty of Business and will replace BUS 201  in Year 2 of the major specific sequencing with 3 units in electives outside of Business
2. See Policy on Elective Courses  
3. May be taken either in Year Two (Winter Term) or Year Three.
4. May be taken in either of Year Three or Year Four.
5. May be taken in any year except Year Two, Fall Term. Students planning to take advanced course work in Economics may wish to substitute ECON 281 , which is accepted as a substitute for BUEC 311  in the Accounting Honors Program.
6.  
   1. Accounting electives may be chosen from any course with the ACCTG designator or any other course with Departmental approval.
   2. Students planning to work toward professional accounting designations should, in addition to the requirements of the honors program, consider taking courses recommended by  the Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta. See www.cpaalberta.ca.
   3. While students are advised to follow the sequencing of accounting courses determined by the course prerequisites, when necessary, after degree students or students with special scheduling problems may take an accounting course and its prerequisites concurrently with permission of the Department Chair.
7. FIN electives may be chosen from any course with the FIN designator. ACCTG 432  may be included as a FIN elective.
8. Students who are taking ACCTG 426  and do not have space in their program to complete the other required Honors courses may eliminate ACCTG 432  or 3 units in FIN electives with consent of the Department.