The Graduate Diploma in Accounting (GDip) is the post-undergraduate component of Western University’s CPA-Accredited programs (Ivey and DAN).  Building on Ivey and DAN’s undergraduate components, the GDip provides a structured set of courses to allow students to acquire the more advanced technical and enabling competencies prescribed in the CPA Competency Map and Knowledge Supplement that are required to be certified as a CPA.  Students who successfully complete both the undergraduate component, or the equivalent, and the Graduate Diploma component of the CPA-Accredited program will gain advanced standing in the CPA Professional Education Program (CPA PEP).  Specifically, they will be exempted from CPA PEP’s two Core and two Elective modules and will only be required to successfully complete the two Capstone modules in order to become eligible to attempt the CPA Profession’s national qualifying examination known as the Common Final Examination (CFE).

The GDip is 13 weeks in length and consists of five mandatory courses. The five courses have been specifically designed to bridge the competencies that students developed at the undergraduate level into those required for advanced standing in CPA PEP.