Accounting
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"Accounting is the language of business. If you want to pursue a career in business, having fluency in the language is crucial."
- Gilbert Fick, MBA, CA, Accounting Instructor
In business, the numbers tell the story and nobody understands the numbers better than an accountant. That's the bottom line.
If you have an aptitude for numbers, enjoy problem solving and want a financially rewarding career, accounting is an excellent field for you. And Douglas College's Accounting Department is a great place to develop skills that will help you thrive in an accounting or business career.
Learn skills that work
Accounting is a challenging profession. The Douglas College Accounting Management Program strives to provide you with skills that meet the demands of the changing workplace. You'll learn financial, computerized and management accounting, as well as computer information systems, and you'll learn how to look at the big picture while determining the bottom line.
Even if you are not taking the Accounting Program, you can still take accounting courses, which provide a great opportunity to learn core business and personal finance skills. Many Commerce and Business Administration programs require students to take some accounting courses.
Learn more about accounting courses
Your instructors know their field
They are CGAs, CMAs, CAs and MBAs. They have many years of experience on the front lines of business and emphasize real-world skills in the classroom.
Full and Part-time Programs
Accounting Certificate Program
This part-time program has launched many accounting careers, with evening classes over four semesters for a total of 30 credits. Find out more about the Accounting Certificate Program.
Accounting Management Diploma Program
This full-time, 60-credit program rounds out your accounting training with courses in economics, communications, marketing, finance and general business, giving you the option to transfer to university. Find out more about the Accounting Management Diploma Program.
Bachelor of Business Administration
Planning to get ahead in your business career? Enter the Douglas College Bachelor of Business Administration program - with specialties in Accounting or Financial Services and Administration. Find out more about the Bachelor of Business Administration Program.
Upgrade for business courses with Pre-Business Foundations
Need to upgrade your skills before starting a Business program at Douglas? Pre-Business Foundations is a one-semester, full-time program that provides you with upgrading of math, English and word processing skills, as well as three credits of a university-transferable business course. For more information, see Pre-Business Foundations.
Information sessions
Douglas College offers free information sessions throughout the year. Find out about Accounting information sessions.
Students say
"I loved the teachers in the Accounting Program and I like the facilities at both campuses. There are a lot of international students and the teachers know how to present their concepts and knowledge to make it easy for us to understand. My teachers were always encouraging me with my career - they forwarded me job postings and helped me get my co-op job."
Martha Barbossa, second-year student in the Accounting Management Diploma Program, completed a Co-operative Education term in the Accounting Department of Vancouver General Hospital.
For more information
Explore the program pages (menu on the left)
See the College Calendar
Attend an information session
Contact the Accounting Department