“I understand the quality of education delivered in the curriculum and the value realized in CDI’s environment. Self-directed learners and problem solvers are what we have come to expect from CDI College.” - Peter Norman, Celerity Data Inc, Burnaby, BC – employer of CDI College graduates
Students in the 24-week Office Assistant program develop the skill sets needed to work in any office environment, big or small. They become proficient with the Microsoft Office suite and learn other related Microsoft business software. Students will develop general business skills and comprehensive bookkeeping skills as part of their general studies. They will also gain hands-on experience with popular accounting software packages.
The Office Assistant program preps students for all office administration tasks including creating flow charts, graphs and diagrams. Project management software MS Project is also taught, which will help students to build upon important organizational skills.
This program is 24 weeks in length.
Job Opportunities
- Clerks
- Office/Admin Assistants
- Accounting Assistants
- Bookkeepers
- A/R, A/P or G/L Clerks
Program Courses
The program outline below is for Ontario . Click here to see the outlines for Manitoba.
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- This advance level program will teach the students the necessary skills required to use Microsoft Word, Excel and Access effectively and efficiently. While building on earlier course, participants of this program will develop considerable skill through practical assignments. Students will also cover MS Publisher as part of this program. The prerequisite for this program is Intermediate Computer Applications (IOC 175) or equivalent skills in intermediate level Microsoft Office. This program will cover Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and MS Publisher.
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- For those who are not already proficient in MS Office software, this series of workshops will be essential to completion of some of the projects and will improve the students’ productivity in school and on the job. This workshop is optional and only needs to be taken by those who do not already have experience in the software covered. All modules are covered at the basic and intermediate levels. Students who are familiar with the software may do challenge exams and use the time for other projects. This workshop series will include MS Word (word processing), MS Excel (spreadsheets), Access (database), MS PowerPoint (presentations) and MS Outlook.
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- The Gaining Employment program will help participants develop the requisite skills to plan and conduct an effective employment search or determine their suitability for self–employment. Students will set goals and objectives, develop interview and presentation techniques, resumes, and detailed job search or self–employment plans.
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- This course covers the day–to–day manual recording of transactions for a small business organization. This includes general journal transactions, special journals, posting to the general ledgers and subsidiary ledgers, preparing a trial balance, payroll registers, operating a petty cash fund, and reconciling bank statements.
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- This course consists of a combination of modules that are considered necessary prerequisites to all other courses. During this course, students will begin with Micro Computer Terminology, which they will do in conjunction with keyboarding skills. Both of these courses are self–paced. Students will then proceed to Windows environment, which will also be self–paced, except for the review days, which are scheduled before each beginning studies on each of the integrated software suites. Students may already have some of the skills covered in this module. Those students will be assigned enhanced courses.
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- This foundation course will provide the students with the skills and abilities required to complete the program along with a number of skills needed to succeed in the workplace. The main areas of study in this course are time management and student success; teamwork; managing conflict; customer service; and personal accountability.
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- Course description coming soon.
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- This software is suitable for companies that want to track their revenues and expenditures into specific cost centers or departments. It is a favorite of many accountants and bookkeepers who perform bookkeeping duties for small businesses as they find it user friendly and easy to use. It is one of the more popular programs used for small business accounting because of its flexibility and ease of use. Accounting Basics and Bookkeeping Procedure, or related experience will be a prerequisite to this program. Students will learn to set up the software and accounts in QuickBooks and perform bookkeeping entries and prepare reports.
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- After completing Accounting Fundamentals and Basic Bookkeeping, students will be prepared to learn computerized accounting. Simply Accounting is one of the leading accounting software packages for small business. Students will learn to set up the software for a company, make entries and prepare reports. While previous programs provide the theory of how accounting and bookkeeping work and what they mean to a business, this software will allow students to actually enter exposes and revenue into the software and see the results.
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- In this module, students will learn to integrate all of the main Microsoft Office software modules. They will learn to move information from program to program. For example, parts of a spreadsheet may be pasted into a word document and vice versa. Students will also learn some productivity tools when they learn to set up automatic updating on their documents. For example, the student may update an Access database and have the data automatically updated on the Word document that is using it. Students will also be taught to integrate information from various software packages by using the PDF writer software. This is the last of the Applied Applications modules. Students must have completed the other Microsoft Office courses to benefit from this module.
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- Course description coming soon.
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- This introductory college course is designed to cover the basic math skills that will be necessary for later courses. It begins with a review of mathematical concepts that the students should have learned in high school and prepares them with a foundation for more advanced mathematics programs and other related courses such as accounting and technical subjects.