Accounting (ACC)

ACC 604 Statutory Interpretation

This course will introduce the student to the Canadian standards related to the interpretation of tax legislation and decisions of the courts.

LEC · Course ID 011672Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 604 today

ACC 605 International Tax

This course will introduce the student to Canadian taxation of international transactions, including the interpretation of tax treaties.

LEC · Course ID 011673Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 605 today

ACC 606 Business Valuations

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.

LEC · Course ID 011674Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 606 today

ACC 607 Tax Issues Integration

This course will develop the students' skills in identifying and addressing tax issues, through the use of case studies.

LEC · Course ID 011675Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 607 today

ACC 609 Financial Statement Analysis

This course introduces fundamental tools of analysis and evaluation that are widely used in a variety of financial careers.

LEC · Course ID 011677Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 609 today

ACC 610 Public Accounting Practice

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.

LEC · Course ID 000003Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 610 today

ACC 611 External Reporting

This course examines accounting standards in evolution, adopting critical perspectives of current issues.

LEC · Course ID 000004Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 611 today

ACC 621 System Reliability Principles and Criteria

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.)

LEC · Course ID 011484Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 621 today

ACC 622 Electronic Commerce

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.)

LEC · Course ID 011478Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 622 today

ACC 623 Business Technology Law

This course will address the legal issues related to information technology, including service agreements, intellectual property rights, taxation and other topics.

LEC · Course ID 011479Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 623 today

ACC 626 IT Assurance and Computer-Assisted Audit Techniques

This course will address audit considerations and other assurance services in computer-based information systems. (Course offering will be internet-based.)

LEC · Course ID 000012Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 626 today

ACC 627 Business Process Enablement and Project Management

This course will cover methods of improving business processes and managing related organizational change. (Course offering will be internet-based.)

LEC · Course ID 000013Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 627 today

ACC 650 Assurance and Governance

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.

LEC · Course ID 000020Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 650 today

ACC 652 Forensic Accounting

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.

SEM · Course ID 013326Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 652 today

ACC 662 Tax Policy

This course examines the economic, political, legal and administrative aspects of selected contemporary issues in Canadian tax policy.

LEC · Course ID 000024Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 662 today

ACC 680 Performance Measurement and Control systems for Implementing Strategy

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 000028Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 680 today

ACC 681 Understanding and Managing Organizational Change

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 000029Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 681 today

ACC 682 Measuring and Managing the Value Creation Process

By examining the fundamentals of vlue creation, this course links internal performance systems with performance in financial markets.

LEC · Course ID 010147Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 682 today

ACC 683 Emerging Issues in Management and Marketing

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.

LEC · Course ID 012014Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 683 today

ACC 684 Strategy and Business Models

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.

SEM · Course ID 013327Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 684 today

ACC 685 Performance Management

This course covers advanced performance management topics including strategy development and implementation, the design and use of performance metrics, goal setting and incentive programs, risk management, and management accounting decision analyses using customized, real-world cases.

SEM · Course ID 013328Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 685 today

ACC 690 Topics in Accounting

One or more one-term courses will be offered at different times as announced.

LEC · Course ID 000030Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 690 today

ACC 701 Financial Accounting Research Seminar

Current research topics in financial accounting including applications of agency theory, capital markets theory and human information processing.

SEM · Course ID 000040Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 701 today

ACC 702 Management Accounting Research Seminar

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 000041Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 702 today

ACC 750 Auditing Research Seminar

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 000042Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 750 today

ACC 760 Taxation Research Seminar

A survey of non-legal tax research in accounting. Tax research in related areas, especially economics, will also be reviewed.

SEM · Course ID 000043Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 760 today

ACC 770 Finance 1

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.

LEC · Course ID 000044Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 770 today

ACC 771 Finance 2

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.

LEC · Course ID 000045Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 771 today

ACC 772 Finance 3

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.

LEC · Course ID 000046Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 772 today

ACC 781 Introduction to Accounting Research

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 000047Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 781 today

ACC 782 Experimental and Field Research in Accounting

An introduction to experimental and field research addressing a broad range of accounting subjects.

SEM · Course ID 016199Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 782 today

ACC 783 Archival and Analytic Research in Accounting

An introduction to archival and analytical research addressing a broad range of accounting subjects.

SEM · Course ID 016200Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 783 today

ACC 784 Special Topics in Accounting Research

SEM · Course ID 000049Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 784 today

ACC 800 Directed Readings in Accounting

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.

RDG · Course ID 015394Graduate Calendar, Fall 2021ACC 800 today