BBA - Accounting Stream
Accounting Concentration
In addition to the BBA requirements, students must complete the following 18 credits:
| ACCT 2106 | Intermediate Accounting I | 3 cr. |
| ACCT 2107 | Intermediate Accounting II | 3 cr. |
| ACCT 2147 | Management Accounting and Control II | 3 cr. |
| Nine credits from the following: | ||
| ACCT 3816 | Personal Taxation | 3 cr. |
| ACCT 3817 | Corporate Taxation | 3 cr. |
| ACCT 4827 | Auditing | 3 cr. |
| ACCT 4836 | Advanced Accounting Topics I | 3 cr. |
| ACCT 4866 | Advanced Cost Accounting Topics I | 3 cr. |
| ACCT 4927 | Advanced Auditing | 3 cr. |
Students intending to pursue an accounting designation are strongly advised to take ACCT 2106, ACCT 2107 and ACCT 2147 in their second year. Students should consult with the faculty co-ordinator regarding courses. If students are pursuing a professional accounting designation, they should ensure they are meeting the entrance requirements for the specific designation as those may be more demanding than the accounting stream requirements.
Bachelor of Business Administration
Graduation Requirements:
In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must also satisfy the Bachelor of Business Administration degree requirements, which include regulations on first year and subject maximum and breadth requirements. Please refer to the Degree Requirement section for further information.
Program Requirements:
To graduate with a Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) or a Bachelor of Business Administration (four-year), students must complete 120 credits, including core requirements as outlined below. Students may also complete a concentration, along with their core BBA requirements. Available Concentrations are as follows: Accounting, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Leadership, Finance, Human Resource Management, Marketing, and International Business.
Students completing the BBA (Honours) must achieve a minimum average of 70% in the program. Students completing the BBA (four-year) must achieve a minimum average of 60% in the program.
| ADMN 1206 | Business Communication and Case Analysis | 3 cr. |
| ADMN 1306 | Digital Management | 3 cr. |
| ACCT 1106 | Introductory Financial Accounting I | 3 cr. |
| ACCT 1107 | Introductory Financial Accounting II | 3 cr. |
| ADMN 1607 | Business Mathematics | 3 cr. |
| ECON 1006* | Introduction to Microeconomics | 3 cr. |
| ECON 1007* | Introduction to Macroeconomics | 3 cr. |
| MKTG 1126 | Marketing Concepts | 3 cr. |
| ORGS 1136 | Introduction to Organizational Behaviour | 3 cr. |
| ACCT 2146 | Management Accounting and Control I | 3 cr. |
| ADMN 2136 | Research in Management | 3 cr. |
| ADMN 2167 | Business Decision Making | 3 cr. |
| ADMN 2306 | Business Ethics | 3 cr. |
| ADMN 2307 | Commercial Law | 3 cr. |
| ADMN 2606 | Business Statistics | 3 cr. |
| ADMN 2716 | Change Management and Innovation Leadership | 3 cr. |
| ADMN 3046 | Operations Management | 3 cr. |
| FINC 3116 | Financial Management I | 3 cr. |
| TMGT 3856 | Information Systems | 3 cr. |
| ADMN 4606 | Business Strategy and Policy I | 3 cr. |
| ADMN 4607 | Business Strategy and Policy II | 3 cr. |
| **3000 or 4000 level ACCT, ADMN, ECON, FINC, MKTG, ORGS, TMGT | 6 cr. | |
| Humanities, Science, and/or Social Science | 6 cr. | |
| ***Electives | 45 cr. | |
| *Students registered in the Accounting Concentration may substitute ECON 1006 and ECON 1007 with ADMN 1007. Students who choose to do this are required to take three additional credits of electives. | ||
| **Students enrolled in the BBA (Honours) must include six credits from below, if not already completed in their Area of Concentration: | ||
| ADMN 4306 | Management Consulting I (iLEAD) | 3 cr. |
| ADMN 4307 | Management Consulting II (iLEAD) | 3 cr. |
| ADMN 4335 | Honours Thesis (iLEAD) | 6 cr. |
| ADMN 4915 | Entrepreneurship (iLEAD) | 6 cr. |
***Students may choose to use some of their electives to pursue one or more of the additional options below.
Co-op Option
To complete the Co-op Option with the BBA, students require a minimum of 3 work terms of 12 weeks each (minimum 420 hours each work term), in work placements. Work placements may be either 4 months or 8 months in length. In order to remain in Co-op, students must maintain a minimum average of 70%. In order to be eligible to enter Co-op, students must have a minimum average of 70%. Students must apply for the Coop option during their first year of the BBA program and can proceed on their first Coop work placement after successful completion of 24 credits of BBA program requirements.
Note that the program must begin and end with a study term, that is, a student’s program schedule cannot end in a work term. Students completing the co-op option may have to complete their degree over 5 years.
**Students must complete nine credits as follows:
| ADMN 3406 | Work Placement I (Co-op) | 3 cr. |
| ADMN 4406 | Work Placement II (Co-op) | 3 cr. |
| ADMN 4407 | Work Placement III (Co-op) | 3 cr. |
| **Before beginning their first work placement, students must complete a minimum of 24 credits of BBA Degree program requirements | ||
Note:
Students are limited to no more than 39 credits of advanced standing from the Canadian Securities Institute/Institute of Canadian Bankers courses.
It is recommended that students include ACAD 1601 in their first 30 Nipissing credits. ACAD 1601 will count towards three credits of the Humanities requirements.