Courses

• GEN100 – Strategies for Scholastic Success

This course introduces students to the post-secondary environment, sets expectations for the rest of the program, and identifies the available tools. It empowers students with the tools to take charge of their academic and lifelong success. It further helps them explore and develop their personal responsibility, self-motivation, interdependence, and self-esteem and make wise choices that create successful results.

• GEN110 – Keyboarding
  

  This course is designed to help students develop, increase, and refine their keyboarding, proofreading, speed, and accuracy. Students are given access to keyboarding software, and their progress is monitored daily.

• BMD100 – Introduction to Information Technology
  

  This course introduces students to computers, computer technology, and basic computer functions. It also introduces file manipulation and the various and efficient uses of the Internet.

• BMD110 – Word Processing Core
  

  This course introduces students to word processing and Microsoft Word. It helps to develop skills in creating and manipulating highly functional documents.

• BMD110 – Word Processing Advanced
  

  This course teaches students how to use various intermediate and advanced features to create and format business documents, including online forms and personalized mailings. Students also learn to collaborate with other users, create outlines, use master documents and work with long documents. Word Processing Core is the prerequisite.

• BMD120 – Spreadsheets
  

  This course introduces students to spreadsheets and Microsoft Excel. You will learn how to work with different types of documents using a variety of core and intermediate features to create and edit professionally and manipulate highly functional spreadsheets.

• BMD125 – Spreadsheets Advanced
  

  This course introduces students to advanced functions and features of spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel. Spreadsheets Advanced teaches students how to work with sorting, pictures, graphs and other features of Microsoft Excel. It helps to develop advanced skills in creating and manipulating highly functional spreadsheets.

• BMD140 – Design Principles and Presentation
  

  This course introduces students to basic design principles and Microsoft PowerPoint. It helps to develop skills in creating and manipulating highly functional multimedia presentations.

• BMD150 – Email, Scheduling, & Calendars
  

  This course introduces students to email and Microsoft Outlook and helps them develop skills in managing email, calendars, contacts, and tasks.

• BMD160 – Business Language & Communication Skills
  

  This course introduces students to business English and communication in a business environment.

• BMD165 – Business Writing
  

  This course is designed to provide students with all the information and practice they need to communicate effectively in business. Business Writing features a stronger focus on technology with a new chapter on drafting messages for electronic media and new cutting-edge business content, including social media and e-portfolios focusing on grammar, vocabulary, and writing. You’ll discover how business communication differs from personal and social communication, and you’ll see how today’s companies use blogs, social networks, podcasts, virtual worlds, wikis, and other technologies.

• BMD170 – Office Procedures
  

  This course introduces students to positive workplace values and various strategies and techniques for maximizing productivity and efficiency.

• BMD180 – Customer Relationship Management
  

  This course introduces students to customer relationship management and establishes the importance of customer service in sales and business.

• BMD190 – Records Management
  

  This course introduces students to systems related to managing records and office procedures as it applies to office machines and protocols.

• BMD200 – Business Management & Entrepreneurship
  

  This course introduces students to the principles and practices required for business management and covers tactics used to motivate and manage people. It follows the life cycle of an entrepreneurial venture—from concept through implementation to harvesting or replication. It moves further into the entrepreneurial process, discussing the business plan and the unique aspects of managing and growing entrepreneurial ventures and small businesses.

• BMD280 – Sales Strategies & Marketing
  

  This course introduces students to marketing and establishes the importance of sales strategies in marketing. Students learn high-performance sales strategies and effective ways to make that first critical hour deliver success.

• GEN200 – Job Search and Career Planning
  

  This course introduces career planning strategies, including strength analysis, resume building and interview skills improvement.

Accounting Specialization

• BMD300 – Accounting Fundamentals Core
  

  This course provides students with a strong foundation in the basics of Accounting, preparing them for careers as chartered professional accountants. It also offers extensive practice in understanding the rules of debits and credits, transaction analysis, month-end duties, adjusting entries, closing entries, and financial statements.

• BMD310 – Accounting Fundamentals Advanced
  

  This course continues the Accounting Fundamentals Core. It focuses on special journals, bank reconciliations, bad debts, petty cash, corporations, dividends, bonds, and retained earnings, further preparing students to become professional accountants.

• BMD320 – QuickBooks Core
  

  This course introduces students to step-by-step instructions for setting up a company in QuickBooks. It also teaches how to perform daily accounting tasks in the General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and Payroll, which are essential skills for a professional accountant.

• BMD325 – QuickBooks Advanced
  

  This course continues QuickBooks Core and introduces some more advanced functions and capabilities. Students will learn how to create company files and handle more advanced tasks for receivables, payables, inventory, and payroll.

• BMD330 – Sage Accounting Core
  

  This course introduces Sage 50 Premium Accounting and teaches you how to perform daily accounting tasks in the general ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and payroll, providing a practical foundation for their future.

• BMD335 – Sage Accounting Advanced
  

  This course continues a Sage Accounting Core and introduces some of Sage 50’s more advanced functions and capabilities. Students will learn how to create company files and handle more advanced tasks for receivables, payables, inventory, and payroll.

• BMD340 – Cloud Accounting (Kashoo)
  

  This course is designed to give online knowledge to cloud accounting and Kashoo. Kashoo accounting software is the best cloud accounting and bookkeeping solution for any business. Students are taught to set up a new company and complete the program’s accounting cycle. This teaches them how to create invoices, accept payments, print checks, make adjustments, and view and print financial statements, equipping them with the knowledge required for accounting professionals.

• BMD350 – Canadian Payroll
  

  This course introduces and educates students on the basic principles and procedures for calculating and creating payroll cheques and deductions. It is designed to inform manual and online payroll calculations, an essential aspect of the practical knowledge needed to be an accountant.