Accounting and Finance Diploma
Diploma
| Type | Part Time Full Time |
|---|---|
| Length | 2 years |
| Fees* |
$8,908.76
*All fees are an estimate. |
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03
Sep
Fall Orientation 2026
All Campuses
Sep 3 - Sep 4
3:00 PM-12:00 AM
Overview
Gain a solid foundation in accounting and finance with the Accounting and Finance Diploma. In only two years, you will be ready to kickstart your career and dive into entry-level positions in public practice and private industry.
Want to go further? Upon completion of this program, transfer your credits to advance your education in Accounting or Finance.
Careers
Additional study and work experience can lead to a wide variety of roles including:
- Controller
- Treasurer
- Accountant
- Auditor
- Financial Advisor
What you will learn
During this two-year diploma, you will gain knowledge, skills and abilities in the following areas:
- Financial statements (preparing and understanding)
- Business law principles
- Economic principles
- Professional writing
- Computer Applications
Courses
Core Courses
ENGL-103
Typical Offerings
| Timing | All Terms, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
A study of grammar, composition, and style. A vigorous program of essay-writing plus a variety of writing assignments or exercises dealing with specific problems in essay-writing. Strongly recommended for students who wish to improve their writing skills.MKT-152
Typical Offerings
| Timing | All Terms, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course is an introduction to marketing activities in modern business firms. The major topics covered are target markets and segmentation, consumer behaviour, research and information systems, and the marketing mix. Throughout the course, emphasis is on the application of concepts and perspectives to current business problems and opportunities, through case studies and projects.MGT-154
Typical Offerings
| Timing | All Terms, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course focuses on the personal management and interpersonal skills that contribute to success in the business world. Areas covered include stress and time management, perceptions, effective communication, and assertiveness skills. Opportunities will be provided for the learner to practice and critique communication skills that are critical to the workplace.MATH-157
Typical Offerings
| Timing | All Terms, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course introduces the student to basic statistical methods. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability, estimation, hypothesis testing, charting, and linear regression. Applications to business are stressed.ACC-170
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Fall/Spring Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
The course will cover Data Analytics and Information Systems for Accounting and Finance. The course will cover system concepts, information representation for decision making, value of information, organizational system needs to meet objectives, quality of information for decision making, data and information modelling, management of information systems infrastructure and architecture, system life cycle, and risks and controls.ECON-201
Typical Offerings
| Timing | All Terms, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course examines free market economics from the point of view of individual consumers, producers, investors, employers, and employees. It will examine how these individuals make rational decisions and how those decisions lead to efficient market outcomes. The course also examines market failures (where free markets are inefficient) and the role of government in intervening to deal with these failures.ECON-202
Typical Offerings
| Timing | All Terms, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course introduces students to the fundamental models of macroeconomics, including those for measuring and understanding key economic variables, and to fundamental principles and concepts of economic function. Specifically, students will consider how an economy functions in over long periods of time, how open economies work, and the nature and impact of short run economic fluctuations. They will also learn how government policies are used to achieve economic goals, especially in the Canadian context.COM-204
Typical Offerings
| Timing | All Terms, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
Introduction to accounting procedures, principles and financial statement preparation, and the analysis of accounting information for business decision-making. Emphasis is on accounting policies and generally accepted accounting principles.ACC-251
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Fall/Spring Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
A sound knowledge of fundamental accounting principles is essential to deal with the concepts presented in this course. The emphasis is on solving problems related to the preparation of financial statements. Specific financial statement elements covered are cash, accounts receivable, inventories, capital assets, and investments. The preparation of the financial statement is thoroughly reviewed.ACC-252
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Spring Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
An analysis of financial statement elements started in ACC 251 is concluded with coverage of current liabilities, long-term debt, and shareholder's equity. Special topics include leases, pensions, income tax, and financial statement analysis. The preparation of the cash flow statement is thoroughly reviewed.ACC-255
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Fall/Spring Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course is an introduction to managerial accounting. Emphasis is placed on cost for planning and control. Some of the topics include cost terms and classifications, job order costing, process costing, activity-based costing, cost behaviours, and cost-volumeprofit relationships. The computer lab component utilizes spreadsheet software.MGT-255
Typical Offerings
| Timing | All Terms, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course provides students with the knowledge required in starting up and successfully operating a small business. Topics include business structures, location and market assessment considerations, business plans, methods of financing, government obligations, franchising, strategic planning and control. Case studies and simulations are used in the course.ACC-256
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Fall/Spring Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course is a continuation of Management Accounting I. Some of the topics include variable costing, budgeting, standard costs, overhead analysis, transfer pricing, evaluating performance, relevant costs for decision making, and capital budgeting.FIN-257
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Fall/Spring Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course introduces the role of financial management and the environment in which it operates. Topics include: the functions of corporate finance, foreign exchange transactions, financial mathematics (time value of money), bond valuation, short and long-term financing instruments, securities markets, individual and personal income taxes, and financial statement analysis. The computer lab will make use of spreadsheet software to solve financial problems.MATH-257
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Fall/Spring Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course continues the introduction to business statistics which was presented in Business Statistics I. Topics include: tests of goodness of fit and independence, experimental design and analysis of variance, multiple regression, model building, index numbers, time series analysis and forecasting, nonparametric methods, statistical methods for quality control, decision analysis, and sample survey. Software too will be used to solve statistical problems.FIN-258
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Fall/Spring Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course continues the introduction to financial management which was presented in Finance I. Topics include: stock valuation, net present value and other capital budgeting techniques, deriving cash flow information from financial statements, capital markets, risk and return, cost of capital, financial leverage, and dividend policy. The computer lab will make use of spreadsheet software to solve financial problems.ACC-270
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Fall/Spring Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course is intended to give students a working knowledge of a commonly used accounting software program. Students gain a conceptual understanding of topics and applied skills in setting up a company's books and the full accounting cycle. Topics include: general ledger set-up, special journals, subsidiary ledgers, credit transactions, sales taxes, payroll and source deductions, inventory, budgeting, and account reconciliations.LAW-294
Typical Offerings
| Timing | All Terms, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course introduces students to fundamental legal concepts, principles, and issues that are relevant to Canadian business. It also promotes an understanding of how these legal concepts and issues are applied to specific problems in business. Topics include an introduction to the Canadian legal system, the law of torts, and the law of contract. An in-depth investigation is then made in specific areas of contract and business law, including: employment contracts, the law of agency, debtor/creditor relationships, the law of real estate and mortgages, and sale proprietorship, partnership, and the corporation.MATH-145 or 100 level UT MATH
One of the following electives
MATH-100
Typical Offerings
| Timing | All Terms, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course is an introduction to algebra, analytic geometry and trigonometry. It serves as the prerequisite for the two-semester science-based calculus sequence for science students, or as a university-credit mathematics elective for non-science students. Topics covered include algebraic number systems, algebra of real numbers, fundamental principle of analytic geometry, geometry of the real line, equations and inequalities, plane synthetic and analytic geometry, functions and graphs and linear, quadratic, polynomial, rational, root, algebraic, exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions.MATH-103
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Fall/Spring Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course is an introduction to the theory and applications of finite and countable sets. It is intended primarily for students in business, education, and liberal arts programs, but is suitable, also, as an elective for students studying mathematics or computer science. Topics are chosen from set theory, counting theory, probability, propositional and predicate logic, number theory, linear and dynamic programming, game theory and network analysis.WEGD-121
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Fall Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
Design Thinking investigates "Individual as Innovator" by working on design problems in a human, interactive, collaborative, and prototypical way. Students will gain an understanding of the methodology and language used in human-centred design as they problem solve for real and fictitious clieents. Participants will empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test their way to solutions for business, visual, online, and print media using traditional tools and industry standard software programs. Project-based assignments will develop a foundation in design thinking suitable for those going on to study in a variety of design disciplines.WEGD-131
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Spring Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
Visual Communication focuses on developing an understanding of the reasons and ways in which people have chosen to communicate. Students will investigate a variety of visual communication examples from the historical to the contemporary and use them as catalyst for their own work. The course will survey work from a variety of different cultures, including Canadian First nations. Students will use those investigations to create their own case studies of techniques both past and present, and will share their projects through a variety of presentations.WEGD-141
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Fall Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of website design. Students will learn how to design, develop, optimize, publish, and troubleshoot basic HTML and CSS based websites. Students will create websites with standard text editors and with industry leading website development and image editing software. The class is taught with a focus on current and emerging web standards and best practices. Students will analyze and assess other websites to gain insight into the design of their own websites.WEGD-142
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Spring Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course is a continuation of WEGD 141 and focuses on intermediate concepts around designing, developing, optimizing, publishing, and troubleshooting HTML and CSS based websites. More advanced concepts around user experience, interactive design, and search engine optimization will be discussed. Learners will gain experience in integrating other forms of media into their websites including animation, audio and video. Students will become proficient using industry-leading website development and image editing software. Students will gain an awareness of other technologies that, while beyond the scope of this course, are important components of the current website development landscape.MGT-160
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Fall/Spring Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course investigates the importance of international business and international trade to Canada and to this region. Students will study issues of international trade from the perspective of a small- or medium-sized business in central British Columbia. By the end of the course, students will have developed an international business proposal and will analyze it in terms of topics covered in the course.COM-222
Typical Offerings
| Timing | All Terms, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
Information extracted from various areas of psychology (social, industrial/organizational) and management will be utilized to study the nature of work, people, and organizations. Topics include: leadership, motivation, group dynamics, communication, Japanese management, job design, organizational design, organizational culture, organizational development, stress, and time management. Organizational behaviour and its impact on management will be examined through lecture, discussion, case analyses, and practical applications of the material.ENGL-229
Typical Offerings
| Timing | All Terms, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
This course includes both the theory and practice of writing for the workplace. Students will first learn the rules and guidelines of professional communication and then will move beyond them, investigating the underlying theory, ethics and social factors that contribute to the challenges of work writing. This course introduces strategies for communicating effectively to a variety of audiences in a variety of workplace genres. Students work both individually and in collaboration, completing both written and oral projects that are relevant to their professional goals and the requirements of the business, technical, and professional communities. Prerequisites: ENGL 103 Note: Natural Resource and Environmental Technology (NRES) students will be admitted with successful completion of ENGL 103 and completion of all first-year courses.MGT-254
Typical Offerings
| Timing | All Terms, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
Teamwork is a vital part of organizational life. Participating effectively in teams and groups requires the ability to understand how groups develop and to understand our own personal style, the styles of others, and how these impact the development of a group. Effective teams and groups require effective leaders. Students will be introduced to different leadership styles and discover their personal leadership profile. Areas covered include stages of group development, functional leadership, motivation, lines of communica tion, conflict resolution, and managing change. As this is an applied skills course, students are given the opportunity to partici pate in and analyze a group experience for the semester.MGT-263
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Fall/Spring Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
An introduction to personnel management including organization of the personnel functions: recruitment and selection, interviewing and counselling, job descriptions and evaluation, compensation and salary administration, management development and performance appraisal, training and manpower planning, safety and occupational health. The course places particular emphasis on the practical application of personnel policies and procedures, on personnel's relationship to management and management's responsibilities to employees.MGT-264
Typical Offerings
| Timing | Fall/Spring Only, Every Year |
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| Locations | Prince George |
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Description
An introduction to the fundamental issues of labour/management relations in Canada. Topics include the roles assumed by labour unions, management, and government bodies, the processes involved in collective bargaining such as negotiation, mediation, conciliation, grievance, and arbitration, contract interpretation and administration, as well as discipline procedures.Entry Requirements
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Taren Johnson
CNC Graduate
My experience at CNC was more than I could have hoped for. I made lifelong friends and memories. With small cohorts of students we were able to create connections with fellow classmates and get the most out of every class, which was integral to managing the program’s demanding workload.
Kayla Yewchuk
Medical Radiography Technology Program Graduate
There aren’t many jobs where you can be outdoors 90 percent of your time and see different places. I’ve gotten to experience some absolutely beautiful places in B.C. that most people wouldn’t even consider going to because they are that remote, or just areas that aren’t on the general horizon of the public. I work with a helicopter quite a bit, and that’s awesome. You can’t beat that.
Luke Friesen
Natural Resources and Forest Technology Graduate
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