Accounting minor

General information

The Accounting minor is available to students in UOIT’s Bachelor of Commerce programs.

The Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree with an Accounting minor requires a minimum of 18 credit hours in accounting courses. Students must complete four accounting core courses and a minimum of two accounting elective courses (as below).

Admission requirements

Students can apply to have a business minor added to their program in the winter semester of their second year in the program. Admission is competitive and based on performance in the program as well as previous business courses. Students must have a minimum 2.3 GPA (C+ average on a 4.3 scale) to be considered as well as at least a C+ average in Marketing in the Information Technology Sector (for Marketing minor) or Introduction to Project Management (for the Operations Management or Game Production Management minors). Students will be notified by their academic advisor by the end of May in their second year if they are accepted into their desired minor program.

Accounting minor core courses

• BUSI 2150U – Financial Accounting I
• BUSI 2160U – Financial Accounting II
• BUSI 2170U – Managerial Accounting
• BUSI 3101U – Intermediate Financial Accounting I

Accounting electives

Note: Accounting core courses may not be used as accounting electives.

• BUSI 3110U – Introduction to Taxation
• BUSI 3120U – Advanced Taxation
• BUSI 3150U – Financial Statement Analysis
• BUSI 3160U – Advanced Managerial Accounting
• BUSI 3170U – Auditing Standards and Applications
• BUSI 3171U – Advanced Auditing
• BUSI 3172U – Auditing Information Systems
• BUSI 4101U – Advanced Financial Accounting
• BUSI 4110U – Critical Thinking, Analysis and Decision Making in Accounting I
• BUSI 4140U – Contemporary Issues in Accounting
• BUSI 4190U – Special Topics in Accounting