Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting Honours

You are passionate about accounting and want to learn more, dig deeper and develop your critical thinking and research skills more fully than you can with an accounting major.

As an Honours student, you work closely with accounting professors who are experts in their fields. You sharpen your research skills, develop theories, test hypotheses and contribute to the wealth of accounting knowledge. Most students who complete the Honours program choose to pursue a masters or doctorate degree.

What To Expect:

In addition to the required courses you take in the Accounting major, the Honours program includes two advanced research courses and a seminar course that prepare you to develop and present your Honours thesis.

In an advanced qualitative research course, you focus on research design and methods to learn statistical techniques aimed at improving company decision making. You build on the data analysis skills you’ve acquired in senior-level courses. 

The advanced quantitative research course focuses on the management side of business. You learn how to conduct interviews, facilitate focus groups and interpret participant data. You also learn about the research process, considering expectations such as ethics applications and consent forms.

You apply what you’ve learned in these courses to a research project, referred to as your Honours thesis, that you develop in a seminar course. The topic of your thesis is approved by your Honours supervisor. You present and defend your thesis to School of Business faculty and students.

Courses & Requirements:

• ACCT 315    Intermediate Financial Accounting I    3
• ACCT 316    Intermediate Financial Accounting II    3
• ACCT 324    Intermediate Management Accounting    3
• ACCT 328    Income Tax Fundamentals    3
• ACCT 442    Auditing    3
• Option Requirement: Choose 12 credits from the following:    12
• ACCT 330
• Introduction to Data Analytics in Accounting    
• ACCT 366
• Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting    
• ACCT 410
• Financial Accounting - Advanced    
• ACCT 412
• Financial Accounting Theory    
• ACCT 422
• Management Accounting - Advanced    
• ACCT 428
• Advanced Corporate Taxation    
• ACCT 430
• Accounting Information and Systems Support    
• ACCT 450
• Data Analytics Applied to Accounting    
• ACCT 493
• Integrated Case Studies in Accounting    
• ACCT 497
• Special Topics in Accounting    
• ACCT 498
• Independent Studies in Accounting    
• Honours Designation Requirements    
• BUSN 396    Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Business    3
• BUSN 397    Advanced Qualitative Research Methods for Management    3
• BUSN 496    Senior Honours Seminar    3
• ACCT 499    Honours Thesis - Accounting    3
• Select one senior 400-level course as approved by faculty advisor    3
• Elective Requirement    
• Non-Business Electives    15
• Open Electives    6
• Total Credits    63