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Loyalist College

Belleville , Ontario ,Canada

Business – Accounting (Ontario College Diploma)

Accounting is more than filing taxes and bookkeeping. It’s about understanding a business from the ground up and guiding it through sound financial practice. Every business has a numbers story. Whether it’s in the fields of manufacturing, services, travel, art, health, fashion, real estate or sports — the options are endless. Create the career you want working part-time, full-time, in an office, remotely, locally, nationally or internationally.

This program delivers concrete, marketable skills with a dual focus on financial and management accounting:

  • Develop managerial skills in budgeting, product costing and price setting, eliminating financial waste and finding operating efficiencies.
  • Access opportunities to gain certification in industry-leading software such as MS Excel, Sage 50 Accounting and QuickBooks.
  • A third year of study provides advanced knowledge of financial and management accounting, corporate taxation and audit techniques.
  • Collaborate and formulate strategy in simulated business competitions.
  • Learn from case studies and guest speakers from the local business community.
  • Put your skills to work in Loyalist’s Service-Learning Community Clinics in semesters 5 and 6. Hone your customer service skills while assisting local small businesses and not-for-profit agencies with their accounting, budget and payroll needs. In semester 6, the Clinic operates a Student Tax Clinic.
  • A four-week field placement in third year provides valuable industry experience and networking, and the opportunity to graduate into a job.

Outstanding faculty make the difference

  • Learn with enthusiastic Chartered Professional Accountants (CPAs) who take teaching beyond textbooks and into the real world.
  • Faculty include MBAs and former CFOs with extensive business experience in manufacturing, retail, public and not-for-profit sectors, aviation, transportation, real estate development, corporate acquisitions, business analysis and internal audit.
  • Professors have worked with high-profile accounting firms including KPMG, Wilkinson & Company and Price Waterhouse Coopers, along with experience in the corporate, public and charitable sectors.

Campus Information

Belleville campus

Intakes

  • Jan
  • Sep

Application Processing Time in Days: 20

Minimum English Language Requirements

English Level Description IELTS (1.0 -9.0) TOEFL IBT (0-120) TOEFL CBT (0-300) PTE (10-90)
Expert 9 120 297-300 86-90
Very Good 8.5 115-119 280-293 83-86
Very Good 8 110-114 270-280 79-83
Good 7.5 102-109 253-267 73-79
Good 7 94-101 240-253 65-73
Competent 6.5 79-93 213-233 58-65
Competent 6 60-78 170-210 50-58
Modest 5.5 46-59 133-210 43-50
Modest 5 35-45 107-133 36-43
Limited 4 32-34 97-103 30-36
Extremely Limited < 4 < 31 < 93 < 30

Job Opportunity Potential

Accounting skills are in demand in virtually every field:

  • You could work as a financial analyst, accountant, budget officer, account manager, financial planner, payroll officer or external auditor.
  • There are opportunities in arts and entertainment, news media, marketing, manufacturing, education, health and wellness, service industries and sports organizations.
  • Find the right fit — employers include large and small enterprises, the government, as well as not-for-profit agencies — or start your own business.
  • With third-year studies in Canadian Public Sector Financial Management, advanced diploma graduates are uniquely positioned to take advantage of growing opportunities in the public and not-for-profit sectors.
  • Start at Loyalist and put your career on track to become a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) with advanced standing towards a university degree.

Our grads get great jobs

  • Accountant, Quinte Conservation
  • Accountant, Wilkinson & Company, LLP, Chartered Professional Accountants
  • Accounting Manager – Closson Chase Vineyards Inc.
  • Accounts Payable Associate, Stream Global Services
  • Auditor, Canada Revenue Agency
  • Financial Analyst, Corrections Canada
  • Financial Analyst, Amer Sports Canada Inc.
  • Junior Accountant, Welch LLP, Chartered Accountants
  • Office Manager – CBI Health
  • Personal Banking Officer, Bank of Nova Scotia
  • Accountant, Habitat for Humanity, Prince Edward Hastings
  • Accountant, The Children's Foundation

PSW Opportunity

If your program was less than 8 months

  •    You aren’t eligible for a PGWP.

If your program was more than 8 months but less than 2 years

  •    We may give you a PGWP that’s valid for up to the same length as your study program.

For example, if you completed a 9-month program, we may give you a work permit for up to 9 months.

If your program was 2 years or more

  •    We may give you a PGWP that’s valid for 3 years.

If you completed more than 1 program

  •    You may be able to get a PGWP that combines the length of each program.

Each of the programs you completed -

  • must be PGWP-eligible and at least 8 months in length

Admission Requirement / Eligibility Criteria

Required academic preparation

  • OSSD/OSSGD or equivalent with courses at the general, advanced, (C), (U) or (M) level,
    AND
  • Grade 12 English (C) level or equivalent
  • OR
  • Mature applicant

Recommended academic preparation

  • Grade 12 Mathematics (C) level or equivalent 

Prior learning assessment and recognition

  • Applicants with work experiences or other types of non-credentialed learning may be eligible for credits at Loyalist. Graded credits (as opposed to exemptions) are granted.

 

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