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Ce programme de certificat de premier cycle permet aux étudiants d'acquérir les compétences professionnelles en comptabilité et en finance appliquées dont ils ont besoin pour améliorer leurs perspectives de carrière dans ces domaines.
CACF : Introduction to basic financial statements. Topics include: moving through the accounting cycle and the notion of debit and credit; how to measure and report financial transactions and apply accounting theory; financial statement analysis and how to make better business decisions based on sound analysis.
Terms: Automne 2024, Hiver 2025
Instructors: Gatbach, Anas (Fall) Rannou-Stanley, Clémence; Fayazi, Lida (Winter)
Corequisite: CMSC 000
CACF : Introduction to the accounting needs of managers. Topics include: key concepts and practices of management accounting and how they can be used to improve business performance and decision-making; types of cost-accounting systems; patterns of cost behaviour; problems related to cost determination, allocation, budgeting and control; and identifying, classifying and summarizing costs and expenses.
Terms: Automne 2024, Hiver 2025
Instructors: Cohen, Thierry (Fall) Cohen, Thierry (Winter)
CACF : An introduction to the role of computer information systems in organizations as applied to accounting. Topics include: transaction processing fundamentals, major business processing cycles, internal control management systems, accounting information systems security and audit. Includes the use of accounting software.
Terms: Automne 2024
Instructors: Murray, Michael George (Fall)
CACF : Course focuses on the reporting and analysis of financial information with statements and using key accounting principles. Topics include: interpretation of financial statements, examination of the notes that accompany the financial statements; recording and use of analytical tools such as financial-ratio analysis.
Terms: Automne 2024, Hiver 2025
Instructors: Bouras, Jenny (Fall) Bouras, Jenny (Winter)
CACF : An in-depth review of the Income Statement components including revenues, expenses, related-party transactions and other measures derived from the income statements. The course provides a deeper examination of the notes that accompany financial statements in annual reports and are integral to the understanding of the financial position of companies.
Terms: Été 2025
Instructors: Tenenbaum, Lawrence S (Summer)
CACF : A brief overview of the fundamentals of finance from a corporation’s perspective. It provides the framework, concepts and tools for analyzing investments and financial decision-making by a corporation. Other topics include consideration of alternative methods to optimize the firm’s assets and added-value.
Terms: Hiver 2025
Instructors: Jassim, Raad (Winter)
CACF : Focus on understanding the conceptual structure of the Income Tax Act and its administration. The course covers the key elements of taxation for individuals and corporations, including income from employment, business and property; capital gains and losses; shareholder benefits; tax planning; international taxation; deductions from income; and calculating taxable income and tax due.
Terms: Hiver 2025
Instructors: Raco, Caterina (Winter)
CACF : The course explores the risk controls, costs, economic concepts and other considerations in performance management that needs to be taken into account when making operational decisions. Introduction to the most widely used methodologies in managing organization performance systems.
Terms: Hiver 2025, Été 2025
Instructors: Hindo, Rima (Winter) Bouras, Jenny (Summer)
CACF : Traditional concepts of liquidity, collections, disbursements, company-bank relationships, cash forecasting, and short-term investing and financing, including the role of working capital management in the operations of a firm.
Terms: Automne 2024
Instructors: Meas, Sitha (Fall)
CACF : Focus on the structure of the Canadian tax system, and the income tax filings to be completed by individuals and corporations outlining sources of taxable income and allowable deductions.
Terms: Automne 2024
Instructors: Raco, Caterina (Fall)
