32 graduate courses in the Fall 2015 Graduate Calendar, from Waterloo’s archived copy.
This course will introduce the student to the Canadian standards related to the interpretation of tax legislation and decisions of the courts.
Department Consent Required
LEC · Course ID 011672Archived pageACC 604 today
This course will introduce the student to Canadian taxation of international transactions, including the interpretation of tax treaties.
Department Consent Required
LEC · Course ID 011673Archived pageACC 605 today
This course will provide the fundamentals of business valuation theory and practice. Students will receive advanced standing in part of the Canadian Insitute of Chartered Business Valuators' Program of Studies.
Department Consent Required
LEC · Course ID 011674Archived pageACC 606 today
This course will develop the students' skills in identifying and addressing tax issues, through the use of case studies.
Department Consent Required
LEC · Course ID 011675Archived pageACC 607 today
This course introduces fundamental tools of analysis and evaluation that are widely used in a variety of fiancial careers.
Department Consent Required
LEC · Course ID 011677Archived pageACC 609 today
This course is designed to enhance the students' abilities to apply knowledge of accounting principles, theories, and practices through the use of multi-dimensional case studies.
Department Consent Required
LEC, TUT · Course ID 000003Archived pageACC 610 today
This course examines accounting standards in evolution, adopting critical perspectives of current issues.
Department Consent Required
LEC · Course ID 000004Archived pageACC 611 today
This course will address the principles of reliable systems including availability, security, integrity and maintainability risks and control practices that can contribute to system reliability. (Course offerings will be internet-based.)
Department Consent Required
LEC · Course ID 011484Archived pageACC 621 today
This course will address the features and related implementation issues of electronic commerce systems, including order processing, payment, fulfillment, integration with other entity systems and related issues of management, performance measurement and control. (Course offerings will be internet-based.)
Department Consent Required
LEC · Course ID 011478Archived pageACC 622 today
This course will address the legal issues related to information technology, including service agreements, intellectual property rights, taxation and other topics.
Department Consent Required
LEC · Course ID 011479Archived pageACC 623 today
This course will address audit considerations and other assurance services in computer-based information systems. (Course offering will be internet-based.)
Department Consent Required
LEC · Course ID 000012Archived pageACC 626 today
This course will cover methods of improving business processes and managing related organizational change. (Course offering will be internet-based.)
LEC · Course ID 000013Archived pageACC 627 today
This course considers the role of risk in the context of assurance and the client's risk management process and addresses the impact of risk on an assurance provider's professional practice.
Department Consent Required
LEC · Course ID 000020Archived pageACC 650 today
Through case-based learning this course provides insight into financial statement fraud, frauds against organizations, fraud investigations and how frauds may be prevented and detected.
Department Consent Required
SEM · Course ID 013326Archived pageACC 652 today
This course examines the economic, political, legal and administrative aspects of selected contemporary issues in Canadian tax policy.
Department Consent Required
LEC · Course ID 000024Archived pageACC 662 today
This course reviews and integrates theory and practice necessary for those intending to pursue management accounting careers. It provides a comprehensive insight into the problems facing top management accounting executives and includes a number of cases designed to expose students to real world situations requiring qualitative and quantitative analysis.
LEC · Course ID 000028Archived pageACC 680 today
This course is designed for individuals who are interested in a deeper understanding of the process of change from a senior management perspective.
LEC · Course ID 000029Archived pageACC 681 today
By examining the fundamentals of vlue creation, this course links internal performance systems with performance in financial markets.
LEC · Course ID 010147Archived pageACC 682 today
This course provides students with a review and synthesis of emerging issues in management and marketing in order to prepare students who are pursuing a career in financial management with a business background. The course will consist of assigned readings, exercises, and term projects that involve evaluation of current business issues, and an examination.
Department Consent Required
LEC · Course ID 012014Archived pageACC 683 today
This course examines concepts within organizational strategy and performance by exploring business models and applying an analysis framework to assess the models' connections with competivenesss and profitability.
Department Consent Required
SEM · Course ID 013327Archived pageACC 684 today
This course covers advanced management control topics including the design and use of performance metrics, aligning performance measurement with strategy, goal-setting and incentive programs, and risk management.
Department Consent Required
SEM · Course ID 013328Archived pageACC 685 today
One or more one-term courses will be offered at different times as announced.
Department Consent Required
LEC · Course ID 000030Archived pageACC 690 today
Current research topics in financial accounting including applications of agency theory, capital markets theory and human information processing.
SEM · Course ID 000040Archived pageACC 701 today
This course provides an in-depth look at the major research efforts that characterize contemporary management accounting and cost management systems. Particular emphasis is placed on field-based research techniques.
SEM · Course ID 000041Archived pageACC 702 today
A broad survey of current auditing research covering: the socio-economic role of auditing in society; the agency relationships between shareholders, managers and auditors; the factors influencing the quality of auditing, in particular, experimental research into key attributes of the audit judgment process, and technological innovations such as statistical sampling, regression, and expert systems.
SEM · Course ID 000042Archived pageACC 750 today
A survey of non-legal tax research in accounting. Tax research in related areas, especially economics, will also be reviewed.
SEM · Course ID 000043Archived pageACC 760 today
The course introduces options and other derivative securities in different asset classes. The main focus is on methods of pricing in a multi-period setting, but continuous-time models are also discussed. Topics may include no-arbitrage pricing theory, the fundamental theory of asset pricing, complete and incomplete markets,and pricing of complex financial instruments.
(Cross-listed with ACTSC 970)
LEC · Course ID 000044Archived pageACC 770 today
The course discusses methods and tools for modeling of financial derivatives in the continuous-time setting. Both theory and practical applications are discussed. The first part covers methods of pricing and hedging of derivatives under different assumptions about the dynamics of the underlying economic factors. Topics normally include currency derivatives, American and exotic options, futures contracts, stochastic volatility models and mean-variance hedging. The second part deals with modeling and pricing of interest-rate products. Topics may include short interest rate models, the Heath-Jarrow-Morton Framework, and Libor and swap market models.
(Cross-listed with ACTSC 971)
LEC · Course ID 000045Archived pageACC 771 today
The course will cover selected and advanced topics in quantitative finance and risk management, with a particular focus on current developments. Topics may include robust and Bayesian portfolio optimization, limits to arbitrage, derivatives pricing under model uncertainty, credit risk models, and models of systematic risk.
(Cross-listed with ACTSC 972)
LEC · Course ID 000046Archived pageACC 772 today
ACC 781 provides an introduction to academic research in Accounting and Finance. It covers elements of scientific inference, experimental and quasi-experimental design, and various threats to valid inference.
SEM · Course ID 000047Archived pageACC 781 today
SEM · Course ID 000049Archived pageACC 784 today
This selected topics course is an intensive reading course on specific topics that are not available in the regular departmental course offerings. The course is supervised by a faculty member and normally requires students to undertake a systematic program of reading leading to the writing of a research paper. This course does not replace any of the required accounting PhD seminar courses. Only one reading course can count toward the required program courses. Departmental/graduate officer consent is required.
Department Consent Required
RDG · Course ID 015394Archived pageACC 800 today