Accounting

This program provides Algonquin College business students with a broad-based exposure to all aspects of business administration while focusing on the specialty area of accounting. Students learn financial and managerial accounting, taxation, management information systems and financial management. Students use current financial accounting software programs to process accounting data. Decision-making using accounting data will be included in most courses.

The graduates are prepared to pursue a career in accounting or can continue their education by pursuing a professional accounting designation and/or a university degree.

A number of credits may be granted by the Certified General Accountants Association based on academic achievement.

Finance

This program provides a strong educational foundation for students to pursue careers in the fast paced, rapidly changing and innovative Financial Services industry. Students can continue their career development through advanced professional education, on-the job training and experience. This program allows graduates to meet the high proficiency standards needed to complete the professional designations and licensing courses in the industry.

Graduates from the Finance major acquire dynamic careers as financial planners, personal banking officers, investment and insurance advisors, and other challenging financial and management positions. Many of these positions are in banks, trusts, credit unions, mortgage finance companies, investment and brokerage companies, financial planning firms, organized stock exchanges, and other firms that provide financial products and services.

General Business

The General Business major provides students with the breadth and depth of business knowledge and skills necessary to function effectively in a wide range of business positions at an entry level.

The extensive variety of courses available can also be used to prepare students for a future role in general management or as preparation for transfer to a university business degree program.
Students must successfully complete ten major courses, selecting a maximum of three courses in any of the professional disciplines including Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Information Systems, Marketing or Materials and Operations Management. The resulting program is tailored to your interests and strengths without limiting your professional possibilities

Human Resources

This major prepares graduates to pursue careers in Human Resources Management (HRM) and provides a solid foundation in all human resource management areas including: human resource planning, recruitment and management, training and development, employment practices, labour relations, collective bargaining, organizational design and development, health and safety, and legal and political conditions surrounding workplace practices and organization management Graduates of this program may also qualify for a CHRM (Certificate in Human Resources Management) granted by the Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario, if their academic achievements meet the Association’s standards.

Information Systems

This major prepares students to analyze competing technology products and make intelligent decisions in relation to business technologies and strategies.

With constant fast-paced technological changes, students get an introduction to the concepts and growth of technology from the past, the present and the future. Technology brings changes to society and tends to undermine traditional conventions. Therefore students learn to research answers and learn where and how to apply technology from a strategic perspective. This program is designed to accelerate technology-proficient business graduates into entry-level management positions and lead organizations in the process of adopting and administering technology throughout their organizations.

A co-operative education option is available for full-time students meeting co-operative departmental standards at the end of level four and six. Co-op does not guarantee employment.

International Business

The new major provides students with the wide range of international knowledge and business skills to pursue the growing interest by Canadian enterprises in the international marketplace that has resulted in more and more of them making the transition from domestic to global markets. Graduates will be presented with a solid base curriculum that covers all the aspects of international business needed to be successful as an international entrepeneur within a Canadian firm doing business globally, and in global organizations present in Canada. Students will be fully emerged in the field of real world international information and situations including international marketing, research, management, logistics, law, market entry and distribution and finance. A co-op domestic or international experience is an option students have in this program. Graduates will fulfill the academic and professional C.I.T.P. (Certified International Trade Professional) designation awarded by the Forum for International Trade Training (FITT).

Marketing

Graduates in Marketing learn a wide range of marketing and other business skills that allow them to pursue a marketing position throughout all sectors of the economy including high technology, services, international business, government retailing and wholesaling as well as to establish their own businesses. Students learn to make strategic decisions regarding product, distribution, pricing, advertising and promotion, sales, research, customer service and other elements of the marketing mix.

Materials and Operations Management

The primary objective of the Material and Operations Management major is to provide high quality education and training that enables graduates to be |readily employable in any facet of Supply Chain Management. This includes areas such as purchasing, production planning and control, inventory management, logistics, distribution, traffic and project management. Students also begin their journey towards recognized national professional designations in Production and Inventory Management, Purchasing Management and Logistics.

This co-op major has very high graduate placement rates in supply chain positions for public and private organizations including high technology industries such as communications, fiber optics, bio-technology and electronic manufacturing. Students will graduate with a certificate from SAP, the world’s largest supplier of enterprise software and have direct hands-on knowledge of their supply chain software, for example, MS Project.