College Diploma - Business - Accounting

The Business – Accounting diploma is a two-year program that trains students to do accounting work rather than only understand it.

The sequence moves from introductory financial accounting through intermediate financial reporting, managerial and cost accounting, taxation for individuals and small business, auditing fundamentals, and accounting information systems. Software fluency is treated as core, not optional — students work extensively in spreadsheets and in the accounting packages Canadian small and mid-sized firms actually run. Supporting courses in business law, economics, statistics and communication round out the credential.

Accounting has a structural advantage over most diplomas: every organisation needs it, the work is verifiable, and the skills transfer between industries. The program also feeds Humber’s Advanced Diploma and Bachelor of Commerce – Accounting, which is the route toward CPA prerequisite coverage.

The work placement is a graded part of the program, so you finish with documented Canadian experience and a referee rather than only a transcript.

Humber Polytechnic — formerly Humber College — is Ontario’s largest public college and a Designated Learning Institution (DLI O19376943122). The North campus in Etobicoke is its main site, running technology, engineering, health science, business and skilled trades programs in purpose-built labs and shops rather than lecture halls, with three intakes a year and the deepest employer network in the Greater Toronto Area.

Its field maps to CIP 52.0301 (Accounting). Important: this is a college credential rather than a degree, so it is not exempt from the November 2024 PGWP field-of-study restriction — eligibility depends on this CIP field appearing on IRCC’s eligible list when you apply. Humber publishes a PGWP-eligible program list with CIP codes; check it, and confirm with an Apply Study Visa counsellor before committing. IRCC makes the final decision.