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

ACWG

ADMN

ADTG

AGEM

AMIS

BA

BCAP

BFIN

BLAW

BSYS

BTMA

BUAD

BUQU

BUS

BUSA

BUSD

BUSI

BUSM

BUSN

CBSY

CMIS

CMNS

COBA

COM

COMM

COMN

COMP

DATA

DGTR

DVST

EC

ECDV

ECN

ECO

ECON

ENTI

ENTR

ESB

ETHC

FIN

FINC

FINS

FMGT

FN

FNCE

GLBU

GMGT

HP

HR

HRIR

HRLR

HRM

HRMN

HUMR

IBL

IBUS

IDM

IGBM

IND

INTB

LDSH

LEAD

LGL

MARK

MAT

MATH

MG

MGMT

MGST

MGT

MIS

MIST

MK

MKT

MKTG

MNGT

MRKT

MSCI

OBHR

OPMA

OPMG

OPMT

ORGB

OT

PADM

SCM

SCMN

SCMT

SGMA

SGMT

SMGT

SMGT

SPMA

STA

STAT

STS

TAX

TAXN

TAXX

TMGT