Tuition Fee
Start Date
Medium of studying
Duration
45 weeks
Program Facts
Program Details
Degree
Diploma
Major
Accounting
Area of study
Business and Administration
Course Language
English
About Program
Program Overview
Accounting and Payroll Administration
Overview
The Accounting and Payroll Administration Diploma Program is designed for those new to the accounting industry and those with experience looking to develop professional qualifications demanded by employers in areas related to general accounting, bookkeeping, and payroll administration.
Curriculum
- Student Success Strategies (10 lessons)
- Lesson 1.1: Goals
- Lesson 1.2: Self-awareness
- Lesson 1.3: Personal self-management
- Lesson 1.4: Stress management
- Lesson 1.5: Learning
- Lesson 1.6: Active reading
- Lesson 1.7: Interdependence
- Lesson 1.8: Studying smarter
- Lesson 1.9: Next steps
- Lesson 1.10: Course overview, exam preparation, and final exam
- MS Word (10 lessons)
- Lesson 2.1: Enhanced editing
- Lesson 2.2: Using illustrations and graphics
- Lesson 2.3: Proofing documents
- Lesson 2.4: Applying references and hyperlinks
- Lesson 2.5: Performing mail merges
- Lesson 2.6: Maintaining documents and working with templates
- Lesson 2.7: Protecting and sharing documents
- Lesson 2.8: Using advanced options
- Lesson 2.9: Using word HTML features
- Lesson 2.10: Course overview, exam preparation, and final exam
- MS Excel (10 lessons)
- Lesson 3.1: Working with advantages filters
- Lesson 3.2: Advanced charting
- Lesson 3.3: Using auditing tools
- Lesson 3.4: Using scenarios & goal seeking
- Lesson 3.5: Solving problems
- Lesson 3.6: Using automatic formatting & style
- Lesson 3.7: Using advanced formulas and securing workbooks
- Lesson 3.8: Creating charts and pivot tables
- Lesson 3.9: Adding pictures and shapes to a worksheet
- Lesson 3.10: Course overview, exam preparation, and final exam
- MS Office Access (10 lessons)
- Lesson 4.1: Database essentials
- Lesson 4.2: Create data tables
- Lesson 4.3: Work with tables/database records
- Lesson 4.4: Modifying and fields
- Lesson 4.5: Create forms
- Lesson 4.6: Create reports
- Lesson 4.7: Use controls in reports and forms
- Lesson 4.8: Create and modify queries
- Lesson 4.9: Creating flexible queries
- Lesson 4.10: Course overview, exam preparation, and final exam
- MS Office Outlook (14 lessons)
- Lesson 5.1: Getting to know outlook
- Lesson 5.2: Email basics
- Lesson 5.3: Advanced E-mail tools
- Lesson 5.4: Managing E-mail messaging
- Lesson 5.5: Automatic message processing
- Lesson 5.6: Working with contents
- Lesson 5.7: Advanced contact management
- Lesson 5.8: Calendar basics
- Lesson 5.9: Managing meetings
- Lesson 5.10: Advanced calendar management
- Lesson 5.11: Managing tasks
- Lesson 5.12: Categories and outlook data files
- Lesson 5.13: Managing notes and journal entries
- Lesson 5.14: Course overview, exam preparation, and final exam
- MS Office PowerPoint (12 lessons)
- Lesson 6.1: Power point essentials
- Lesson 6.2: Presentation basics
- Lesson 6.3: Working with texts
- Lesson 6.4: Designing a presentation
- Lesson 6.5: Adding tables to slides
- Lesson 6.6: Using in a presentation
- Lesson 6.7: Creating SmartArt graphics
- Lesson 6.8: Adding graphics to a presentation
- Lesson 6.9: Using animations and multimedia
- Lesson 6.10: Securing and sharing a presentation
- Lesson 6.11: Delivering a presentation
- Lesson 6.12: Course overview, exam preparation, and final exam
- Business Mathematics (9 lessons)
- Lesson 7.1: Review of arithmetic
- Lesson 7.2: Review of basic algebra
- Lesson 7.3: Ratio, Proportion and percent
- Lesson 7.4: Trade discount, discount, markup, and markdown
- Lesson 7.5: Breakeven and cost-volume-profit relationships
- Lesson 7.6: Mid-term exam
- Lesson 7.7: Simple interest
- Lesson 7.8: Simple interest applications
- Lesson 7.9: Course overview, exam preparation, and final exam
- Business Law and Mathematics (13 lessons)
- Lesson 8.1: Introduction to legal system in Canada
- Lesson 8.2: Overview of Canadian legal system in Canada
- Lesson 8.3: Contract law-impeachment
- Lesson 8.4: Contract law-the effect of breach
- Lesson 8.5: Contract law-remedies for breach
- Lesson 8.6: The law of torts
- Lesson 8.7: Torts-professional liability
- Lesson 8.8: Competition law-government regulation of business
- Lesson 8.9: LLP-Limited liability partnerships, company law, director/officers liability
- Lesson 8.10: Employment law-contract of employment
- Lesson 8.11: Business ethics
- Lesson 8.12: Case studies in business ethics
- Lesson 8.13: Course overview, exam preparation, and final exam
- Business Communication (10 lessons)
- Lesson 9.1: Foundation of business communication
- Lesson 9.2: The writing process
- Lesson 9.3: Memos, letters, email and brief messages
- Lesson 9.4: Report structure
- Lesson 9.5: Spoken communication
- Lesson 9.6: Giving speeches and oral presentations
- Lesson 9.7: Project proposals
- Lesson 9.8: Negotiation and persuasion skills
- Lesson 9.9: Ethics of documentation
- Lesson 9.10: Course overview, exam preparation, and final exam
- Office Administration Procedures (14 lessons)
- Lesson 10.1: Understanding office environment
- Lesson 10.2: Developing professional skills
- Lesson 10.3: Issues in the office
- Lesson 10.4: Time management
- Lesson 10.5: Telecommunications
- Lesson 10.6: Building communications skills
- Lesson 10.7: Processing mail
- Lesson 10.8: Record management
- Lesson 10.9: Banking and accounting procedures
- Lesson 10.10: Scheduling appointments and receiving visitors
- Lesson 10.11: Making travel arrangement
- Lesson 10.12: Planning meetings and conferences
- Lesson 10.13: Developing effectives oral presentations
- Lesson 10.14: Course overview, exam preparation, and final exam
- Bookkeeping and Financial Accounting Fundamentals (15 lessons)
- Lesson 11.1: Accounting for and evaluating environment
- Lesson 11.2: Recording business transactions
- Lesson 11.3: Measuring business income: the adjusting process
- Lesson 11.4: Completing the accounting cycle
- Lesson 11.5: Merchandising operations & the accounting cycle
- Lesson 11.6: Accounting for merchandise inventory
- Lesson 11.7: Mid-term review
- Lesson 11.8: Mid-term exam
- Lesson 11.9: Accounting information systems
- Lesson 11.10: Internal control and cash
- Lesson 11.11: Receivables
- Lesson 11.12: PP&E, goodwill and intangible assets
- Lesson 11.13: Current liabilities and payroll
- Lesson 11.14: Course overview & exam preparation
- Lesson 11.15: Exam
- Bookkeeping and Financial Accounting Intermediate (15 lessons)
- Lesson 12.1: Partnerships
- Lesson 12.2: Corporations: share capital & the balance sheet
- Lesson 12.3: Corporations: retained earnings and the income statement
- Lesson 12.4: Long-term liabilities (part1)
- Lesson 12.5: Long-term liabilities (part 2)
- Lesson 12.6: Mid-term review
- Lesson 12.7: Mid-term examination
- Lesson 12.8: Investments and international operations
- Lesson 12.9: Investments and international operations (part 2)
- Lesson 12.10: The cash flow statement (part 1)
- Lesson 12.11: The cash flow statement (part 2)
- Lesson 12.12: Financial statement analysis (part 1)
- Lesson 12.13: Financial statement analysis (part 2)
- Lesson 12.14: Course overview & exam preparation
- Lesson 12.15: Exam
- Payroll Administration I (7 lessons)
- Lesson 13.1: Canadian payroll-basic concepts
- Lesson 13.2: Employee deductions and employee contributions
- Lesson 13.3: Employee deductions and employee contributions
- Lesson 13.4: Unionized and non-unionized environments
- Lesson 13.5: Legislation regarding terminations and layoffs
- Lesson 13.6: Computerized accounting using the simply
- Lesson 13.7: Course overview, exam preparation, and final exam
- Payroll Administration II (8 lessons)
- Lesson 14.1: Employment insurance Act
- Lesson 14.2: Canada pension plan
- Lesson 14.3: Income tax act
- Lesson 14.4: Worker’s compensation
- Lesson 14.5: Government remittance and compliances
- Lesson 14.6: Year end
- Lesson 14.7: Practicum
- Lesson 14.8: Course overview, exam preparation final exam
- QuickBooks (12 lessons)
- Lesson 15.1: Getting started and intro to taxes
- Lesson 15.2: Cash transactions
- Lesson 15.3: General journal transactions
- Lesson 15.4: Creating a new company
- Lesson 15.5: Vendor transactions
- Lesson 15.6: Customer transactions
- Lesson 15.7: Discount, estimates, and orders
- Lesson 15.8: Banking, taxes, and credit cards
- Lesson 15.9: Company setup
- Lesson 15.10: Payroll transactions
- Lesson 15.11: Inventory transactions
- Lesson 15.12: Course overview and final exam
- Simply Accounting (20 lessons)
- Lesson 16.1: Getting started and introduction to taxes
- Lesson 16.2: General journal
- Lesson 16.3: General ledger setup
- Lesson 16.4: Accounts payable
- Lesson 16.5: Accounts receivable
- Lesson 16.6: Receivable & payables setup
- Lesson 16.7: Payroll journal
- Lesson 16.8: Payroll ledger setup
- Lesson 16.9: Mid-term examination (class 1- class 8 content)
- Lesson 16.10: Inventory transactions
- Lesson 16.11: Orders, quotes, and deposits
- Lesson 16.12: Currencies, remittances and accountant’s copy
- Lesson 16.13: Project allocations
- Lesson 16.14: Budgeting
- Lesson 16.15: Reconciliation and deposits
- Lesson 16.16: Payroll inventory and comprehensive practice
- Lesson 16.17: Time and billing
- Lesson 16.18: Departmental accounting
- Lesson 16.19: Course overview & exam preparation
- Lesson 16.20: Exam
- ACCPAC—Part 1 G/L (9 lessons)
- Lesson 17.1: System manager
- Lesson 17.2: G/L setup
- Lesson 17.3: Charts accounts
- Lesson 17.4: Opening balances
- Lesson 17.5: Budget sets
- Lesson 17.5: Daily transactions
- Lesson 17.6: Displaying account transactions & periodic processing
- Lesson 17.7: Statement designer
- Lesson 17.8: Course overview, exam preparation, and final exam
- ACCPAC—Part 2 A/R (9 lessons)
- Lesson 18.1: Accounts receivable setup
- Lesson 18.2: Customer maintenance
- Lesson 18.3: Opening balances and current year transactions
- Lesson 18.4: Adjustments processing
- Lesson 18.5: Receipt processing
- Lesson 18.6: Periodic batch processing
- Lesson 18.7: Periodic processing
- Lesson 18.8: Year-end procedures
- Lesson 18.9: Course overview, exam preparation, and final examination
- ACCPAC—Part 3 A/P (9 lessons)
- Lesson 19.1: G/L subledger services, bank services and tax services (part I)
- Lesson 19.2: G/L subledger services, ban services, and tax services (part II)
- Lesson 19.3: Account payable setup
- Lesson 19.4: Vendor maintenance
- Lesson 19.5: Opening balances and current year transactions
- Lesson 19.6: Adjustments
- Lesson 19.7: Payment entry
- Lesson 19.8: Accounts payable periodic processing
- Lesson 19.9: Course overview, exam preparation, and final examination
- Canadian Tax Practice (8 lessons)
- Lesson 20.1: Compensation issues-income from employment
- Lesson 20.2: Compensation issues-allowable tax deductions for employees
- Lesson 20.3: Income from business-business income earned by sole proprietors & corporations
- Lesson 20.4: Depreciable property-acquisition, use and disposal of depreciable property
- Lesson 20.5: Investment income-income from property
- Lesson 20.6: Corporations-An introduction
- Lesson 20.7: Corporations organization, capital structure, & income distribution of corporations
- Lesson 20.8: Special tax rules for Canadian controllers private corporations (CCPC) course overview, exam preparation and final exam
- Employment Success Strategies (7 lessons)
- Lesson 21.1: Resumes
- Lesson 21.2: Cover letters
- Lesson 21.3: Job search essentials
- Lesson 21.4: Interview essentials
- Lesson 21.5: Interview follow up
- Lesson 21.6: Open up
- Lesson 21.7: Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
Duration and Lessons
- Duration: 45 weeks
- Lessons: 231
Program Description
The Accounting and Payroll Administration Diploma Program is designed to provide students with a thorough knowledge of accounting and payroll principles, as well as practical skills in the use of popular computerized accounting and payroll software programs. The program is developed with the help of professionals from the accounting industry to ensure that the training received matches the skills and knowledge demanded by employers.
Program Outline
Outline:
Module 1: Student Success Strategies
- Goal setting
- Self-awareness
- Personal self-management
- Stress management
- Learning
- Active reading
- Interdependence
- Studying smarter
- Next steps
- Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
Module 2: MS Word
- Enhanced editing
- Using illustrations and graphics
- Proofing documents
- Applying references and hyperlinks
- Performing mail merges
- Maintaining documents and working with templates
- Protecting and sharing documents
- Using advanced options
- Using word HTML features
- Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
Module 3: MS Excel
- Working with advanced filters
- Advanced charting
- Using auditing tools
- Using scenarios & goal seeking
- Solving problems
- Using automatic formatting & style
- Using advanced formulas and securing workbooks
- Creating charts and pivot tables
- Adding pictures and shapes to a worksheet
- Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
Module 4: MS Office Access
- Database essentials
- Create data tables
- Work with tables/database records
- Modifying and fields
- Create forms
- Create reports
- Use controls in reports and forms
- Create and modify queries
- Creating flexible queries
- Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
Module 5: MS Office Outlook
- Getting to know outlook
- Email basics
- Advanced E-mail tools
- Managing E-mail messaging
- Automatic message processing
- Working with contents
- Advanced contact management
- Calendar basics
- Managing meetings
- Advanced calendar management
- Managing tasks
- Categories and outlook data files
- Managing notes and journal entries
- Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
Module 6: MS Office PowerPoint
- Power point essentials
- Presentation basics
- Working with texts
- Designing a presentation
- Adding tables to slides
- Using in a presentation
- Creating SmartArt graphics
- Adding graphics to a presentation
- Using animations and multimedia
- Securing and sharing a presentation
- Delivering a presentation
- Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
Module 7: Business mathematics
- Review of arithmetic
- Review of basic algebra
- Ratio, Proportion and percent
- Trade discount, discount, markup, and markdown
- Breakeven and cost-volume-profit relationships
- Mid-term exam
- Simple interest
- Simple interest applications
- Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
Module 8: Business law and mathematics
- Introduction to legal system in Canada
- Overview of Canadian legal system in Canada
- Contract law-impeachment
- Contract law-the effect of breach
- Contract law-remedies for breach
- The law of torts
- Torts-professional liability
- Competition law-government regulation of business
- LLP-Limited liability partnerships, company law, director/officers liability
- Employment law-contract of employment
- Business ethics
- Case studies in business ethics
- Course overview, exam preparation and finale exam
Module 9: Business communication
- Foundation of business communication
- The writing process
- Memos, letters, email and brief messages
- Report structure
- Spoken communication
- Giving speeches and oral presentations
- Project proposals
- Negotiation and persuasion skills
- Ethics of documentation
- Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
Module 10: Office administration procedures
- Understanding office environment
- Developing professional skills
- Issues in the office
- Time management
- Telecommunications
- Building communications skills
- Processing mail
- Record management
- Banking and accounting procedures
- Scheduling appointments and receiving visitors
- Making travel arrangement
- Planning meetings and conferences
- Developing effective oral presentations
- Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
Module 11: Bookkeeping and financial accounting fundamentals
- Accounting for and evaluating environment
- Recording business transactions
- Measuring business income: the adjusting process
- Completing the accounting cycle
- Merchandising operations & the accounting cycle
- Accounting for merchandise inventory
- Mid-term review
- Mid-term exam
- Accounting information systems
- Internal control and cash
- Receivables
- PP&E, goodwill and intangible assets
- Current liabilities and payroll
- Course overview & exam preparation
- Exam
Module 12: Bookkeeping and financial accounting intermediate
- Partnerships
- Corporations: share capital & the balance sheet
- Corporations: retained earnings and the income statement
- Long-term liabilities (part1)
- Long-term liabilities (part 2)
- Mid-term review
- Mid-term examination
- Investments and international operations
- Investments and international operations (part 2)
- The cash flow statement (part 1)
- The cash flow statement (part 2)
- Financial statement analysis (part 1)
- Financial statement analysis (part 2)
- Course overview & exam preparation
- Exam
Module 13: Payroll Administration I
- Canadian payroll-basic concepts
- Employee deductions and employee contributions
- Employee deductions and employee contributions
- Unionized and non-unionized environments
- Legislation regarding terminations and layoffs
- Computerized accounting using the simply
- Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
Module 14: Payroll Administration II
- Employment insurance Act
- Canada pension plan
- Income tax act
- Worker’s compensation
- Government remittance and compliances
- Year end
- Practicum
- Course overview, exam preparation final exam
Module 15: QuickBooks
- Getting started and intro to taxes
- Cash transactions
- General journal transactions
- Creating a new company
- Vendor transactions
- Customer transactions
- Discount, estimates, and orders
- Banking, taxes, and credit cards
- Company setup
- Payroll transactions
- Inventory transactions
- Course overview and final exam
Module 16: Simply accounting
- Getting started and introduction to taxes
- General journal
- General ledger setup
- Accounts payable
- Accounts receivable
- Receivable & payables setup
- Payroll journal
- Payroll ledger setup
- Mid-term examination (class 1- class 8 content)
- Inventory transactions
- Orders, quotes, and deposits
- Currencies, remittances and accountant’s copy
- Project allocations
- Budgeting
- Reconciliation and deposits
- Payroll inventory and comprehensive practice
- Time and billing
- Departmental accounting
- Course overview & exam preparation
- Exam
Module 17: ACCPAC—Part 1 G/L
- System manager
- G/L setup
- Charts accounts
- Opening balances
- Budget sets
- Daily transactions
- Displaying account transactions & periodic processing
- Statement designer
- Course overview, exam preparation and final exam
Module 18: ACCPAC—Part 2 A/R
- Accounts receivable setup
- Customer maintenance
- Opening balances and current year transactions
- Adjustments processing
- Receipt processing
- Periodic batch processing
- Periodic processing
- Year-end procedures
- Course overview, exam preparation and final examination
Module 19: ACCPAC—Part 3 A/P
- G/L subledger services, bank services and tax services (part I)
- G/L subledger services, ban services, and tax services (part II)
- Account payable setup
- Vendor maintenance
- Opening balances and current year transactions
- Adjustments
- Payment entry
- Accounts payable periodic processing
- Course overview, exam preparation and final examination
Module 20: Canadian tax practice
- Compensation issues-income from employment
- Compensation issues-allowable tax deductions for employees
- Income from business-business income earned by sole proprietors & corporations
- Depreciable property-acquisition, use and disposal of depreciable property
- Investment income-income from property
- Corporations-An introduction
- Corporations organization, capital structure, & income distribution of corporations
- Special tax rules for Canadian controllers private corporations (CCPC)course overview, exam preparation and final exam
Module 21: Employment success strategies
- Resumes
- Cover letters
- Job search essentials
- Interview essentials
- Interview follow up
Careers:
The field of accounting, bookkeeping and payroll administration can provide a challenging but also rewarding career. The various courses in the diploma were developed with the help of professionals from the accounting industry to ensure the training you receive at the EPIC College of Technology matches the skills and knowledge employers are looking for and demanding from graduates in areas related to general accounting, bookkeeping and payroll administration.
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About University
Epic College of Technology
Overview:
Epic College of Technology is an educational institution established in 2011, offering diplomas, certificates, and short courses across various industries. It focuses on providing high-standard education, practical learning environments, and interactive engagement for its students. Epic College is a Designated Learning Institute (DLI) catering to both domestic and international students.
Services Offered:
Epic College offers a range of services to its students, including:
Diploma Programs:
In various fields like Business, Health, and Technology.Certificate Programs:
Providing specialized skills in specific areas.Short Courses:
For individuals seeking to enhance their knowledge or acquire new skills.Articulation Partnership:
With Yorkville University, allowing students to transfer credits and pursue a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree.Student Life and Campus Experience:
The context does not provide details about student life and campus experiences at Epic College of Technology.
Key Reasons to Study There:
Practical Learning Environment:
The college emphasizes practical learning, equipping students with industry-relevant skills.State-of-the-Art Facilities:
The campus is equipped with modern facilities to enhance the learning experience.Innovative Learning Techniques:
The college utilizes innovative teaching methods to foster creativity and learning capabilities.Industry-Relevant Programs:
The programs are designed to meet the demands of the job market and employers.Articulation Partnership:
Students can pursue a BBA degree through the articulation partnership with Yorkville University.Academic Programs:
Epic College offers a wide range of diploma and certificate programs in various fields, including:
Business:
Business Administration, International Business Administration, Accounting and Payroll Administration.Health:
Medical Office Administration.Technology:
Web Development, Software Quality Assurance and Testing, Software Development, Mechanical Engineering Design Technology, Civil Engineering Design Technology, Instrumentation and Controls Technologist, Electrical Power Distribution Technology, Environmental Control, Environmentally Sustainable Buildings, Logistics and Supply Chain Operations.Other:
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