College Diploma - Accounting

The 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 rather than 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 complete it.

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 Seneca’s Accounting and Finance advanced diploma and the Honours Bachelor of Commerce, which is the route toward CPA prerequisite coverage.

Newnham is Seneca’s largest campus, on Finch Avenue East in North York, with its own residence, library, athletic centre and specialised technical labs. It sits on the TTC network with subway connections, and carries the bulk of Seneca’s business, technology and engineering catalogue — which means the widest range of student clubs, services and peers of any Seneca site.

Seneca Polytechnic — formerly Seneca College — is one of Ontario’s largest public colleges and a Designated Learning Institution. Newnham is its biggest campus, on Finch Avenue East in North York, and carries the bulk of Seneca’s business, technology, engineering technology, aviation and applied science catalogue. It has its own residence, a large library and athletic centre, and sits on the TTC network with connections to the subway.

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. Seneca publishes a PGWP-eligible program list; check it, and confirm with an Apply Study Visa counsellor before committing. IRCC makes the final decision.