Certificate in Accounting Technician
Lloydminster, Canada
Certificate
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
01 Jun 2026
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
CAD 20,286 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* includes tuition, fees, books/supplies, and mandatory health insurance
Key Summary
About: Get job-ready with Lakeland College’s one-year Certificate in Accounting Technician. You’ll learn technical accounting skills: processing invoices, preparing tax returns, managing accounts payable and receivable, payroll and data entry. Lakeland uses hands-on field trips, practicums, industry events and work experience. You can stay another year to earn a diploma in accounting. Keywords: bookkeeping, payroll, tax, accounts receivable, accounts payable, small-business accounting.
Career Outcomes: Work as an accounting technician, bookkeeper, accounts receivable/accounts payable clerk or payroll clerk. You might progress to junior accountant, accounting assistant, payroll administrator or tax preparer in businesses, public practice or larger companies. Freelance bookkeeping possible.
Get job-ready with Lakeland’s one-year accounting technician program.
You’ll learn technical accounting skills. Those high-demand skills include how to:
- process invoices
- prepare tax returns
- manage accounts payable and receivable
- work with payroll
- do a variety of data entry
Find work as an:
- accounting technician
- bookkeeper
- accounts receivable/accounts payable clerk
- payroll clerk
Expand your job opportunities and stay at Lakeland for another year to earn a diploma in accounting.
Required Courses
- Accounting I
- Payroll Administration
- Accounting II
- Computerized Accounting
- Introduction to Taxation
- Communications I
- Communications II
- Business Computer Applications
- Business Electives
Electives
You'll choose two 3-credit electives. You'll work with the academic advisor to match your interests with the course schedule.
You can also find a list of the required business textbooks.
You might work independently in a small or medium-sized business as a bookkeeper/accountant or in large companies and public practice firms as an:
- accounting technician
- accounts receivable/accounts payable clerk
- payroll clerk