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ACC 443Creative Thinking and Problem Solving for Accountants

Faculty
Arts
Offered
Winter
Credit
0.5
Last listed
1994–95

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1987–88 to 1994–95 (before that, 1984–85 to 1986–87 used the number for Models for Decision Making); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

This course comprises three modules: problem solving techniques, including intuitive and formal methods for considering risk, uncertainty and value, individual and group processes for generating and evaluating alternatives; data organization, analysis and presentation; and decision support and expert systems. This course is part of an integrated, professionally accredited sequence of courses open only to students by permission of the School of Accountancy. 16:6 Accounting

As printed in the 1988–89 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: CS 100 or equivalent

Check it elsewhere

In the scanned calendars

How it read in each calendar from 1984–85 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

1988–89 to 1994–95 6 calendars

This course comprises three modules: problem solving techniques, including intuitive and formal methods for considering risk, uncertainty and value, individual and group processes for generating and evaluating alternatives; data organization, analysis and presentation; and decision support and expert systems.

This course is part of an integrated, professionally accredited sequence of courses open only to students by permission of the School of Accountancy.

16:6 Accounting

Prereq: CS 100 or equivalent

Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit

1987–88 1 calendar

This course. comprises three modules: problem solving; data organization, analysis and presentation; and decision support and expert systems. These modules are intended to promote diagnostic, evaluative and judgmental skills, and to encourage self-directed learning. Prereq: CS 100 or equivalent

Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit

1984–85 to 1986–87 3 calendars

Another title: Models for Decision Making, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).

This course deals with modelling as an approach to problem solving and decision making. Problems of credibility, verification and implementation of models are considered and illustrated by application to problems encountered in management and accounting.

Prereq: Registration in AP3

3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit