Accounting is more than filing taxes and bookkeeping. It’s about understanding a business from the ground up and guiding it through sound financial practice. Every business has a numbers story. Whether it’s in the fields of art, health, fashion, real estate or sports — the options are endless. Explore a career path that can take you virtually anywhere.
Find your career
Accounting skills are in demand in virtually every field:

You could work as a financial analyst, accountant, budget officer, account manager, financial planner, payroll officer or external auditor.
There are opportunities in arts and entertainment, news media, marketing, manufacturing, education, health and wellness, service industries and sports organizations.
Find the right fit — employers include large and small enterprises, as well as not-for-profit agencies — or start your own business.
With third-year studies in Canadian Public Sector Financial Management, advanced diploma graduates are uniquely positioned to take advantage of growing opportunities in the public sector and not-for-profits.
Start at Loyalist and put your career on track to become a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) with advanced standing towards a university degree. Visit cpaontario.ca.
The CPA Canada Advanced Certificate in Accounting and Finance (ACAF) will provide the job-ready skills that employers across the country value within the accounting and finance functions of their businesses.

Experiential learning
This program delivers concrete, marketable skills with a dual focus on financial and management accounting:


Develop managerial skills in budgeting, product costing and price setting, eliminating financial waste and finding operating efficiencies.
Access opportunities to gain certification in industry-leading software such as MS Excel, Sage 50 Accounting and QuickBooks
A third year of study provides advanced knowledge of financial and management accounting, corporate taxation and audit techniques, focused on obtaining the ACAF certification.
Collaborate and formulate strategy in simulated business competitions.
Learn from case studies and guest speakers from the local business community.
Put your skills to work in Loyalist’s student-run tax clinic. For the 2016 tax year, students completed more than 200 returns — putting more than $245,000 back in the hands of Loyalist students.
In year three, put your skills to work in our Money Matters clinic and gain customer service experience assisting students with budgeting and financial matters.
A four-week field placement in third year provides valuable industry experience and networking, and the opportunity to graduate into a job.

Diploma-to-Degree Pathway with the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT): Loyalist Accounting students can earn both an Accounting diploma and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from UOIT in just four years.