Accounting minor

General information

The Accounting minor is available to students in Ontario Tech’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. The course requirements are shown below.

Admission requirements

Commerce students can apply to the Accounting minor in the winter semester of their second year in the program. Admission is based on performance in the program as well as previous business courses. Commerce students must have a minimum 2.3 GPA (C+ average on a 4.3 scale) to be considered.

Academic requirements to major/minor in the Bachelor of Commerce program

To remain in their major or minor, students must hold a minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA (or 2.3 for the Accounting major or minor). Students falling below a 2.0 (or 2.3 in the case of Accounting), will be enrolled in general Commerce.

Accounting minor core courses

• BUSI 1130U – Introduction to Financial Accounting
• BUSI 2130U – Intermediate Financial Accounting I
• BUSI 2180U – Introduction to Managerial Accounting
• BUSI 3130U – Intermediate Financial Accounting II

Accounting electives (choose two)

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