Online and Remote Learning

This course will teach you how to formulate business strategy and put essential business management principles to work. You'll see how planning and taking action over the long term can help realize business goals and objectives. You'll examine topical case studies that cover a wide range of Canadian and international business situations and issues. Working from a general management perspective, you'll gain practical and focused strategic-planning expertise, and then explore and integrate functional business activities such as production, finance and marketing. Know how to organize, develop and apply a professional business strategy and plan. Understand corporate and functional theories of strategy, including their development and application. Acquire the skills and approaches essential to policy formulation and implementation. Identify how societal values and trends affect strategic policy.

Aimed at financial, tax, accounting and investment professionals, this introductory course is designed to give you an understanding of the conceptual structure of the Income Tax Act and its administration. The course covers the key elements of taxation for individuals and corporations, including income from employment, business and property; capital gains and losses; shareholder benefits; tax planning; international taxation; deductions from income; and calculating taxable income and tax due.   TEACHING METHODS This course is delivered entirely online. Each week, learners will be expected to do a series of required readings and practice questions.  Each week there is a live session online that will run approximately two and half hours. These sessions will be recorded and available to the learners for the duration of the course. Depending on the learners’ questions and the content covered, the session could run to three hours. Learners are provided with detailed teaching notes in advance to assist them in following the lecture and understanding the material. Understand the application of income tax law, taking into consideration the specific wording of the Income Tax Act, Canada Revenue Agency's interpretations and policies, and the impact of judicial decisions. Learn the theoretical concepts behind the specific provisions of the Income Tax Act. Apply the law to practical problems. Understand basic tax planning concepts. Learn guidelines in applying professional ethics, whether to tax planning for individuals and corporations or to ethical concerns in international transactions. Utilize the underlying concept and technical aspects for success in professional exams. 

If you want to make good business decisions, you need a solid grounding in the management of investments, finances and assets. This course introduces you to the principles of finance and their application. Topics include the time value of money, valuation of financial securities including bonds and stocks, capital budgeting, determining appropriate discount rates and short- and long-term financing. Understand the financial planning process. Become familiar with financial-ratio analysis, budgeting and forecasting policy. Understand short- and long-term financing. Know the cost and risk factors of capital budgeting.

This course introduces the primary management disciplines used by business managers around the world, as well as the activities associated with organizing the knowledge, skills and efforts of people to accomplish defined organizational goals and objectives. Successful organizations need people with business management skills to achieve their goals and objectives. You'll focus on current management trends, business structures, planning, work processes and practices within Canadian and international settings, and find out more about how real-world businesses operate in constantly changing environments. Identify key business structures and processes, including the production of goods and services. Acquire basic knowledge of supply chain, management information and accounting systems. Understand marketing, economic and financial issues and how they impact business management. Identify human resources issues as they relate to management.

This foundational course will show you how and why marketing works. You'll develop the marketing skills that are valued throughout successful organizations. You'll learn everything from standard methodologies to the latest digital solutions. You'll learn basic marketing concepts, then create a comprehensive marketing plan for a business that covers evaluation, ethics, market psychology, product and service development and promotion. Other topics include pricing policies, marketing mix and channels, distribution theory, consumer behaviour, mobile marketing, online behavioural advertising and social media marketing. Understand the importance and evolution of marketing in today's competitive, fast-changing global environment.Understand the marketing process, concepts and mix. Apply the marketing process to practical problems and situations.Create and implement an effective marketing plan.Allocate limited marketing resources in a strategic way.

This course covers both micro- and macroeconomics. Using real-life examples and case studies, you'll acquire a broad overview of economic theories and their application to current situations. Topics include supply and demand, income distribution, differing market structures, interest rates, unemployment, inflation, business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy, economic growth, international trade and currency exchange rates. You'll come away with a better understanding of economic concepts, theories and methodologies and how to apply them to market and policy situations. Identify and understand key economic concepts.Understand how supply and demand establish market prices and output levels.Analyze the basic characteristics of such market structures as pure competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition and oligopoly.Calculate a firm's output and profit under different market structures.Compare the business cycle, unemployment, inflation and long-term growth, examining the impact of each on the Canadian economy.Identify the importance of international trade and globalization to the Canadian economy.Evaluate the operation and limitations of fiscal policy and the impact of recent federal budgets on the Canadian economy.Identify the main functions of the Bank of Canada and the goals and tools of its monetary policy.

Get the accounting expertise you need to complement your strategic and financial management skills. This advanced course focuses on the accounting needs of managers. You'll learn key concepts and practices of management accounting and how they can be used to improve business performance and decision-making. Topics include types of cost-accounting systems; patterns of cost behaviour; problems related to cost determination, allocation, budgeting and control; and identifying, classifying and summarizing costs and expenses. Identify, classify and allocate costs and expenses.Prepare budgets, including possible variances.Determine internal-transfer prices and evaluate capital expenditures.Support better decision-making across all areas of an organization.

Whatever business you're in, this course will ground you in the basics of financial accounting. You'll start with an introduction to basic financial statements, then move through the accounting cycle and the notion of debit and credit. You'll learn how to measure and report financial transactions and apply accounting theory. You'll end the course knowing what questions to ask about a company's financial statements and how to make better business decisions based on sound analysis. Understand the purpose, nature and basic functions of accounting.Measure and record financial transactions.Prepare and analyze financial statements using accepted international standards.Develop an appreciation for internal control systems.

This course teaches you how to identify, assess and manage different types of enterprise risks. These include such emerging risks as cyber security, social media and climate change as well as reputation, regulatory, supply chain, legal, property, personnel, environmental and motor fleet risk. You'll learn how to manage and control the major categories of risk faced by all organizations, with an emphasis on insurable risk. Understand the nature and purpose of risk control. Know the steps involved in risk assessment and treatment. Analyze and treat exposures to accidental and business losses. Make well-informed risk control decisions.

This course explores the development of risk financing strategies and the selection, implementation and monitoring of risk financing techniques. Starting with an overview of risk financing and techniques used for estimating losses arising from hazard risk, the course covers alternative financing techniques including insurance, self-insurance, retrospective rating, reinsurance, captive insurance and contractual transfer. It also addresses financial risk and capital markets and allocation of the costs associated with hazard risk. Understand the nature and purpose of risk financing. Know how professionals offset the negative consequences of risk events. Analyze and treat exposure to accidental and business losses. Understand the criteria for making risk financing decisions.