Waterloo Catholic District School Board
Resurrection Catholic Secondary School
~Student Information Sheet~
Course Title:
Course Type:
Teacher:
Financial Accounting Fundamentals
University/College
Mr. Lavigne/Mr. Masters
Course Code: BAF3M
Prerequisite:
None
Program Head: Mr. Masters
Grade:
Credit:
11
1.0
Course Description: This course introduces students to the fundamental principles and procedures of accounting.
Students will develop financial analysis and decision-making skills that will assist them in future studies and/or career
opportunities in business. Students will acquire an understanding of accounting for a service and a merchandising
business, computerized accounting, financial analysis, and ethics and current issues in accounting.
Course Breakdown & Assessment and Evaluation Strategies
Unit Title / Description
Unit 1
Fundamental Accounting Practices
 Introduction to Accounting as a Discipline
 Business Structures
 The Accounting Cycle for a Service Business
Unit 2
Advanced Accounting Practices
 The Accounting Cycle for a Merchandising
Business
 Accounting for Sales Tax
 Computer Applications in Accounting
Unit 3
Internal Control, Financial Analysis and Decision
Making
 Internal Control Procedures
 Financial Analysis
 Decision Making
Unit 4
Ethics, Impact of Technology, and Careers
 Ethics and Current Issues
 Impact of Technology
 Careers in Accounting
Final
Evaluation
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Culminating Activity worth 10% of final grade
Written Examination worth 20% of final grade
Expectations re: Learning Skills…
There are 6 Learning Skills and Work Habits
Responsibility
Organization
Independent Work
Collaboration
Initiative
Self-Regulation
Assessment & Evaluation Strategies
May Include:
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Pen and paper tests
Computer-based assignments
Written assignments
Case studies
Oral presentations
Homework checks
Teacher and student checklists
Business reports
Portfolios
Inventory and self-assessment
exercises
These skills and work habits will be clearly communicated to students and will be reported separately from
student achievement of the curriculum expectations. Although learning skills have a significant impact
(positive or negative) on achievement, the evaluation of the learning skills will not be included in the
determination of the student’s percentage grade. In rare cases, for example in the health and physical
education curriculum or with the mathematics process expectations, it is not possible to separate the
evaluation of the learning skills and work habits from the evaluation of a student’s achievement of a
curriculum expectation. In these cases, teachers need to clearly identify the focus of such curriculum
expectations and the evidence that will be collected to assess and evaluate student achievement.
For students on an Individual Education Plan, assessment and evaluation of learning skills and work habits must be
based on the identified strengths and needs in the student’s Individual Education Plan.
School Dept and policies…
Instances of late and missed assignments, cheating and plagiarism will follow the Board’s Assessment and Evaluation
policy as outlined in APC 017:
http://www.wcdsb.ca/ap_memos/PDF/APC017.pdf
Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning
Student achievement of the learning expectations will be evaluated according to the following breakdowns:
WEIGHTING (%)
CATEGORIES OF
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND VALUES
TERM
EVALUATION
FINAL
EVALUATION
ACTIVITY
Knowledge / Understanding
25%
25%
Thinking
25%
25%
Communication
25%
25%
Application
25%
25%
70%
30%
BREAKDOWN OF FINAL MARK
=100%
A portion of the term evaluation will be dedicated to employability skills, which includes work completion,
meeting course deadlines, active participation and positive work ethic/attitude. In determining active
participation and positive work ethic/attitude, attendance and punctuality will be a factor.
Students with incomplete summative evaluations and/or culminating activities in the
course and/or those not achieving the credit at the end of the semester will be
required to attend a 2 hour credit rescue period during the examination schedule to
complete and demonstrate overall or missing expectations for the course. Students
completing all culminating activities and achieving Level 1 standing (at a minimum)
at the end of the semester will not be required to attend the two hour credit recovery
time scheduled during the examination schedule.
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Course Code: BAF 3M
Subject: Introduction to Financial Accounting
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