Business - Accounting at Fanshawe College

You will learn how to examine business from multiple angles and how to maximize your unique skill set. Industry professionals who work in the business accounting field will teach you how to balance the books in manufacturing and merchandising sectors, banks, and other financial institutions. You will also learn how to analyze numbers in public accounting firms and federal, provincial, and municipal government offices by using cutting edge accounting software. Available in a traditional in-class format, with September, January, February and May admissions or 100% online.

Completing the Business Accounting diploma online

Completing this accounting diploma program online provides flexibility and allows students to study full-time and part-time from anywhere. The online accounting courses are provided asynchronously, offering you the convenience to study at any time. Student support resources are available online and our programs have multiple pathways.

If you are thinking about completing your business accounting diploma online, you can assess your readiness with www.amiready.ca, Fanshawe's Online Readiness Indicator, a measure of the degree to which distance learning and/or learning in a technology rich environment is the right fit for you. We also have a handy checklist to guide you along the way to becoming an online learner.

Pathways for your Business Accounting diploma

With your business accounting diploma, there are options to transfer to the Business Administration-Accounting advanced diploma or the Honours Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) degree at Fanshawe. Further details about pathways are available here. You can also be eligible to complete a degree program at many other post-secondary institutions or complement your diploma with a graduate certificate offered at Fanshawe College.

Professional certification

Graduates choosing to pursue the Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation may path into Fanshawe's Honours Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) degree.

Students who complete the program will be eligible for exemptions from ACCA papers F1-F3.

Important update to CPA Canada's Advanced Certificate in Accounting and Finance (ACAF): In July 2019, CPA Ontario has advised that the CPA ACAF program will be discontinued. Students will have until February 2021 to write the ACAF examination, after which time the CPA will no longer offer any exams for the ACAF. The notice from the CPA on the discontinuation of the ACAF can be found at this link: https://www.cpaontario.ca/earn-your-acaf/acaf-notice.

Career Opportunities

Graduates of the Business – Accounting program are prepared to enter the accounting field in the public sector, the private sector (e.g., manufacturing, service industries and public accounting) as well as the not-for-profit sector. Graduates are suited to a variety of entry-level positions, including accounting assistant, junior accountant, staff accountant, bookkeeper, assistant controller, accounts payable and receivable clerk, billing administrator and tax practitioner.