Professional Accounting Practice

Description:

This course provides students with an understanding of the main concepts and practices of management accounting. Topics include cost accounting fundamentals, job order costing, activity-based costing, preparation of budgets, variance analysis, standard costs, and variable costs.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

This course in financial accounting reviews the accounting cycle and the preparation of financial statements. Topics include accounting for merchandising activities, accounting for cash, temporary investments, and accounts receivable, inventories and cost of goods sold, capital assets, current and long-term liabilities, partnership accounting and accounting for corporations, the cash flow statement

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

This course is an introduction to the legal system which governs personal and commercial relationships in Canada. As such, it will provide the student with knowledge of the basic legal concepts, in order to gain insights into judicial reasoning, and develop the skills necessary for legal inquiry and analysis. Areas covered include contract law, sales of goods and consumer protection, agency, partnership and corporate law, employment regulations, real property, and protection of creativity.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

This course introduces students to the role, structure, and use of information systems in managerial and financial contexts. Students will learn management strategies necessary for effective management of IT implementations. Topics include information technology concepts, the role of information systems in business, systems development, and the societal impact of information systems.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description: This self-directed course focuses on introducing new students to the supports, services, and opportunities available at Conestoga College. By the end of this course, students will understand the academic expectations of the Conestoga learning environment, as well as the supports available to ensure their academic success. Students will also be able to identify on-campus services that support their health and wellness, and explore ways to get actively involved in the Conestoga community through co-curricular learning opportunities.

• Hours: 1
• Credits: 0
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

This first portion of this course explores aggregate economic activity in the Canadian economy and its interrelationship with the rest of the world. It provides students with a basic understanding of macroeconomic principles and their relevance to macroeconomic issues impacting Canadian society. It examines the structure and performance of the Canadian economy utilizing such economic indicators as gross domestic product, employment, unemployment, income and productivity growth, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates, balance of international payments and the impact of government fiscal and monetary policies in an international setting. It will analyze current global issues affecting the Canadian economy.

The second portion of this course introduces students to basic microeconomic terminology, concepts, methodology and theories, and provides an understanding of firm behaviour under various market structures in an international setting, and their application to current global microeconomic issues. Topics of study include supply and demand, elasticity concepts and their application; consumer theory; production, costs, and the determination of equilibrium price and output under different market models- perfect competition, monopolistic competition, monopoly, and oligopoly; government export taxes/subsidies and regulation of the market, and international trade.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

This business statistics course covers simple descriptive statistics, probability and the binomial and normal probability distributions, statistical inference, sampling distributions, simple and multiple regression, and correlation analysis.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.