Certificate

Financial Accounting I-A

FA1-A and FA1-B provide the basic knowledge needed for advanced courses in accounting.  FA1-A prepares students to record and analyze transactions based on Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Topics include completing the accounting cycle, accounting for merchandising activities, inventories and cost of sales, internal controls and cash, and receivables.

Financial Accounting I-B

FA1-B concentrates on accounting for investing and financing activities as well as accounting for partnerships and corporations. Topics include capital assets, current and long term liabilities, partnerships, corporations and corporate reporting, and reporting and analyzing cash flows.

Law

This course includes overviews of commercial law emphasizing situations that require consulting a legal professional. Topics include the Canadian legal system, tort law and professional liability, aboriginal commercial law, The Indian Act, the contractual relationship, sales, insurance and employment contracts, debtor and creditor relations, and business organizations.

Strategy & Decisions

The goal of this course is to equip participants with the basic knowledge of management functions and responsibilities. Topics include the environment of business, culture, social responsibility, and ethics, decision making, planning, organizational structure and design, leading, and controlling. Graduates should be able to provide advice on business, treaty/self government issues, alternative policy issues and compliance issues.

Aboriginal History and Development

This course covers issues and concerns of First Nations within a social, political, and cultural environment. Topics include pre-contact aboriginal culture, contact and the aboriginal-non aboriginal relationship, colonialism, assimilation mechanisms, The Indian Act, treaties, comprehensive and specific claims, aboriginal organizations, and self‑government issues.

Communications

The goal of this course is to develop the effective reading and writing skills required in a business environment. A review of basic grammar, spelling and usage, and the essentials of effective business correspondence, such as memoranda, letters, and reports are covered.

Ethics

The course explores the concepts of ethics, values, and morals and places them into context theoretically as well as practically within the workplace. The course materials include both applications to the world of work generally and, more specifically, to the Aboriginal or First Nations environment.

Diploma

Economics

The course examines the issues, concepts, and theories of micro and macroeconomics. Students will gain an understanding of the Canadian economy and the economic environment in which business operates. Topics include supply and demand, price determination, market structures, government monetary and fiscal policies, and the international economy,

Financial Accounting 2

This second level course in financial accounting concentrates on current and capital assets, revenue and expenses recognition, temporary and long term investments. A practice set for computer accounting application is used to enhance students' knowledge of computerized accounting.

Quantitative Methods

An introductory course in basic statistics and applications. Topics include data collection, probabilities, measures of central tendency, risk analysis, regression, time series and indexing. Detailed instructions on the use of Excel to solve statistical problems will be given.

Management Accounting

This first level course in management accounting covers the fundamentals of cost accounting. Topics include manufacturing, job orders, activity based costing, cost-volume profit analysis, capital budgeting, and managerial decision-making. 

Finance

This course emphasizes managerial financial decision-making. Content includes financial environment and its components, working capital management, sources of funds, and raising capital through debt and equity markets. Computer worksheets will be used for financial analysis.

Financial Accounting 3

This financial accounting course covers liabilities and equities, current and long term liabilities, shareholders' equity, and accounting for income tax,  accounting for leases, accounting for pensions, cash flow statements, restatements, and financial statement analysis. Accounting software will be used to provide hands-on experience of the accounting cycle and financial statement preparation. 

Aboriginal Human & Fiscal Issues

This course examines the human and financial issues as they relate to the financial manager's environment. Topics include human resource management for aboriginal organizations, developing relations with council, committees, and external stakeholders, identifying and developing financial opportunities, aboriginal taxation, aboriginal accounting standards, negotiating and managing funding arrangements.

Management Information Systems

MS1 focuses on organizational information management, emphasizing the use of computer systems in managerial decision-making. Topics include the hardware and software of computer systems, and file and database organization. system planning, design, and control of MIS will be surveyed. Database software will be used to provide illustration and practice.