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 prefixes in the list below 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.

Accounting/Auditing/Taxation

AC

ACC

ACCT

ACCTG

ADTG

TAX

TAXN

TAXX

Business Administration/Commerce/Business Management

ADMN

BA

BADM

BCOM

BUAD

BUS

BUSA

BUSD

BUSI

BUSM

BUSN

COBA

COM

COMM

GMGT

IDM

IGBM

MG

MGMT

MGST

MGT

MNGT

Business Law

BLAW

Business Technology/Management Information Systems

ABT

AMIS

BCAP

BSYS

BTMA

CBSY

CMIS

COMP

MIS

MIST

Data Analytics

DATA

DGTR

Economics

EC

ECN

ECO

ECON

Entrepreneurship

ENTI

ENTR

ESB

Finance/Financial Management

BFIN

FIN

FINC

FINS

FMGT

FN

FNCE

Global/International Business

GLBU

IBUS

INTB

Human Resources

HR

HRIR

HRLR

HRM

HRMN

HUMR

HRMG

Leadership

LDSH

LEAD

Marketing

MARK

MK

MKT

MKTG

MRKT

Operations Management

OPMA

OPMG

OPMT

Organizational Behaviour

OBHR

ORGB

Statistics

ACT

BUQU

STA

STAT

STS

Strategic Management

SGMA

SGMT

SMGT

Supply Chain Management

SCM

SCMN