Instruction Mode: In-class & Online Instruction
Professor: Multiple Professors
Resource(s): | Type | Description | Required | Textbook | Modern Advanced Accounting in Canada, Herauf/Hilton (CDN), McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited: Canada., ISBN 9781259654695, 2019 |
Required | Other | CPA Handbook - Part 1, 2, 3 (available online via Sheridan library services database collection)
CPA Canada Public Section Accounting Handbook (online via Sheridan Library database) Selected CA Magazine articles: The Gate Keeper; Municipalities on the Move |
Applicable student group(s): Bachelor of Business Administration
Course Details: Module 1: Introduction to Advanced Accounting &Investments in Equity Securities
- Conceptual framework for financial reporting
- Accounting standards in Canada
- Equity investments –overview
- Accounting for significant influence and investments in associates (cost and equity methods of accounting)
- Reporting complexities associated with the equity method
- Differences in the standards for private enterprises
Learning Outcomes: 1, 2
Textbook Chapters 1 & 2
Assessment: Assignment - 2%
Module 2: Business Combinations (Subsidiaries)
- Business combinations concepts
- Forms of business combinations (purchase of net assets, purchase of shares, contractual arrangement)
- Accounting for business combinations (acquisition method)
- Consolidated financial statements (year of acquisition) using the direct and worksheet approaches
- Differences in the standards for private enterprises
Learning Outcome: 3
Textbook Chapter 3
Assessments: Quiz- 1%, Assignment - 2%
Module 3: Consolidation of Non-Wholly Owned Subsidiaries
- Consolidation methods (FVE and identifiable net assets methods)
- Other consolidation issues (including bargain purchases, contingent consideration, other)
Learning Outcome: 3
Textbook Chapter 4 (including 4A)
Assessments –Quiz - 1% Assignment - 2%
Module 4: Consolidation Subsequent to Acquisition Date
- Methods of accounting for an investment in a subsidiary (including cost and equity methods)
- Consolidated Income and Retained Earnings Statements
- Consolidation subsequent to acquisition date (wholly and non-wholly owned subsidiary) using the direct and working paper approaches
- Other consolidation reporting topics (impairment, other)
- Differences in the standards for private enterprises
Learning Outcomes: 2, 3
Textbook Chapter 5 (including 5A, 5B)
Assessments: Quiz- 1%, Assignment-2%
Module 5: Intercompany Balances and Profits –Land and Inventory
- Accounting for intercompany transactions (balances, revenues and expenses), including how to account for realized and unrealized profits in intercompany transactions (non- depreciable assets such as land, inventory)
- Adjustments in the year of the sale, subsequent years, downstream vs. upstream
Learning Outcomes: 2, 3
Textbook Chapter 6
Assessments: Quiz- 1%, Assignment-2%
Module 6: Intercompany Balances and Profits –Depreciable Assets &Other
- Accounting for intercompany transactions, including how to account for realized and unrealized profits in intercompany transactions (depreciable assets and other)
- Adjustments in the year of the sale, subsequent years, downstream vs. upstream
- Differences in the standards for private enterprises
Learning Outcomes: 2, 3
Textbook Chapter 7
Assessments: Quiz- 1%, Assignment-2%
MIDTERM –30%
Module 7: Consolidated Cash Flows and Changes in Ownership
- Consolidated Cash Flow Statement
- Accounting for various ownership structures including a change in the parent's ownership interests, subsidiary issues additional shares to public, subsidiary with preferred shares outstanding, indirect shareholdings
- Differences in the standards for private enterprises
Learning Outcome: 3
Textbook Chapter 8
Assessments: Quiz- 1%, Assignment-2%
Module 8: Other Consolidation Reporting Issues
- Accounting for joint arrangements &other
- Deferred income taxes arising on acquisition
- Operating segments
- Differences in the standards for private enterprises
Learning Outcomes: 4, 5
Textbook Chapter 9
Assessments: Quiz- 1%, Assignment-2%
Module 9: Foreign Currency Transactions &Hedges
- Concepts of foreign currency transactions
- Accounting for foreign currency transactions
- Hedging foreign currency exposure (forward contracts) –no hedge accounting
- Hedge accounting (including fair value and cash flow hedges, and hedges of a net investment in foreign operations)
- Differences in the standards for private enterprises
Learning Outcomes: 6, 7, 10
Textbook Chapter 10
Assessments: Quiz- 1%, Assignment-2%
Module 10: Reporting Foreign Operations / Foreign Currency Translation
- Accounting exposure vs. economic exposure
- Foreign operations –functional vs. presentation currency
- Translation methods and translated financial statements
- Other foreign reporting issues (acquisition differential)
- Differences in the standards for private enterprises
Learning Outcome: 8
Textbook Chapter 11
Assessments: Quiz- 1%, Assignment-2%
Module 11: Financial Reporting for Not-for-Profit Organizations
- Characteristics and users of Not-for-Profit Organizations (NFPOs)
- Accounting standards for Not-for-Profit Organizations (NFPO) –financial statements, fund accounting, types of contributions, revenue recognition of contributions (deferral method and restricted fund method), other considerations (capital assets, donated goods and services, other)
- Differences in the standards for private enterprises
Learning Outcome: 9
Textbook Chapter 12 (including 12A, 12B)
Assessments: Quiz- 1%, Assignment-2%
Module 12: Public Sector Financial Reporting
- Nature of government, users and uses of public sector accounting
- Financial reporting for government –PSA Handbook
- Objectives and major reporting issues
Learning Outcome: 9
Textbook Chapter 12 (including 12C)
FINAL EXAM (Comprehensive): 40%