If you are looking for guidance on which subjects can best support your preparation for the CPA Professional Program, the competencies below are recommended as a helpful guide.

Specific CompetenciesFoundational Competencies
  • Assurance and trust
  • Big data and data analytics
  • Ethical decision-making (in a business context) and organizational governance/data governance
  • Finance
  • Financial reporting
  • Management decision-making and information systems/technology
  • Nonfinancial reporting
  • Strategy, risk management, and innovation
  • Tax
  • Value creation
  • Economics and the underlying areas of quantitative methods and probability
  • Law and legal forms of business
  • Organizational behaviour
  • Sustainability (in a business context)








Courses with any of the following prefixes will count toward your 24 credit hours. 

Note: This list is not exhaustive—other business and accounting courses may also qualify, even if their prefixes are not listed below.

ABT

AC

ACC

ACCT

ACCTG

ACT

ADMN

ADTG

AGEM

AMIS

BA

BFIN

BLAW

BSYS

BUAD

BUQU

BUS

BUSA

BUSD

BUSI

BUSM

BUSN

CBSY

CMIS

CMNS

COBA

COM

COMM

DATA

DGTR

DVST

ECN

ECON

ENTR

ETHC

FIN

FINC

FMGT

FNCE

GLBU

GMGT

HRIR

HRLR

IBL

IDM

IGBM

IND

LEAD

LGL

MARK

MGMT

MGT

MIS

MKT

MKTG

MRKT

MSCI

OPMG

OPMT

ORGB

PADM

SCM

SCMT

SGMT

SMGT

SPMA

STAT

STS

TAX

TAXN

TAXX

TMGT