Undergraduate Program Calendar 2009|10

University Certificate in Financial Services


Regulations amended, effective September 1, 2009

The University Certificate in Financial Services program provides students with the skills and knowledge appropriate for financial services professionals. The program has been designed so that, through careful selection of options, students may complete the major portion of the training required by various professional financial services associations. All credit earned in the UC: FS program can be transferred into the Bachelor of Commerce or Bachelor of Management program at Athabasca University. Transfer Credit completed more than 10 years ago in the following disciplines at the senior (300/400) level will not receive credit: ACCT, MGSC, LGST, MKTG, FNCE and TAXX. If you are currently working in the field and provide evidence of work being completed, this restriction will be waived. Students complete the program regulations in effect at the time of their enrolment.


	Program Structure

	Total credits in the program	30

	Required credits	27

	Elective credits	3

	Residency requirement. A minimum of 15 credits must be obtained through Athabasca University	15

	Graduation with Distinction or Great Distinction. At least 24 credits must be obtained through Athabasca University in order to be considered.

	Maximum Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) credits	6


	General certificate regulations


	Required Courses (27 credits)

ACCT 250	Accounting for Managers or	(3)
ACCT 253	Introductory Financial Accounting
ADMN 232	Administrative Principles	(3)
ECON 247	Microeconomics	(3)
ECON 248	Macroeconomics	(3)
ECON 385	Money, Banking, and Canadian Financial Institutions	(3)
FNCE 234	Introduction to Finance	(3)
FNCE 370	Overview of Corporate Finance	(3)
FNCE 401	Investments	(3)
MGSC 301	Statistics for Business and Economics I* * strongly recommended or
MATH 215	Introduction to Statistics or
MATH 216	Computer-Oriented Approach to Statistics	(3)


	Electives (3 credits selected from the following)

ACCT 356	Strategic and Competitve Analysis	(3)
ADMN 404	Strategic Management*	(3)
	ADMN 404 must be taken with Athabasca University. Transfer credit will not be awarded. ADMN 404 should be taken as the last course in the program.
CMIS 351	Management Information Systems	(3)
ECON 476	International Finance	(3)
FNCE 322	Personal Finance	(3)
FNCE 403	Risk Management	(3)
FNCE 405	Empirical Finance	(3)
FNCE 408	E-Commerce and Risk Management	(3)
FNCE 470	Portfolio Management	(3)
MGSC 312	Statistics for Business and Economics II	(3)
MGSC 405	Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making	(3)
TAXX 301	Taxation I	(3)


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