PrintAccounting Diploma (8956) Program Requirements
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Academic Credit – 24 Units
The McMaster Accounting Diploma program is divided into three areas: core, specialist and basic.
To qualify for the diploma, students must complete five (5) core courses and any six (6) specialist courses. Students who do not have post-secondary education must also complete two (2) basic courses, including CCE 570-821 Organizational Behaviour, in order to qualify for the Diploma. Students pursuing an external designation may take any number of basic courses to satisfy their external program requirements.
* New students are encouraged to contact the Centre for Continuing Education for academic counselling and a program study plan. Finance and accounting courses are offered at our Hamilton campus and online.
Course List
I. Required Core Courses
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570-925/425 Introductory Financial Accounting (3.0 units)
- 570-926/426 Intermediate Financial Accounting I (3.0 units)
- 570-927/417 Intermediate Financial Accounting II (3.0 units)
- 570-928/428 Introductory Management Accounting (3.0 units)
- 570-929/429 Intermediate Management Accounting (3.0 units)
II. Specialist Courses (Complete any 6)
- 570-930 Advanced Management Accounting (3.0 units)
- 570-931/431 Auditing (3.0 units)
- 570-932/432 Management Information Systems (3.0 units)
- 570-933/433 Financial Management (3.0 units)
- 570-934/434 Advanced Financial Accounting (3.0 units)
- 570-937/437 Taxation I (3.0 units)
- 570-938/438 Taxation II (3.0 units)
- 570-939/439 Accounting Theory (3.0 units)
III. Basic Elective Courses
- 570-810 Effective Business English (3.0 units)
- 570-816 Operations Management Techniques (3.0 units)
- 570-818 Economics (3.0 units)
- 570-821 Organizational Behaviour (3.0 units)
- 570-825/424 Business Administration I (3.0 units)
- 570-827/427 Communications (3.0 units) (Contact CCE for information about correspondence format)
- 570-855 Business Statistics (3.0 units)
- 570-936/436 Business Law (3.0 units)
- 610-852 Business Administration II: Business Policy and Strategic Management (3.0 units)
- 570-419/819 Marketing (3.0 units)