Cert in Bookkeeping at Centennial College in Toronto, Canada is a certificate in Business Administration programme. The programme runs for 2 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 18,005 per year (CAD 2,775 per year for local students).
The certificate teaches the core functions of bookkeeping across the accounting cycle, covering accounts payable and receivable, inventory and payroll processing with relevant software, and has students apply standard accounting principles when putting together financial statements for sole proprietorships, partnerships and corporate entities. Coursework also covers preparing individual income tax filings with tax software, and planning, forecasting, budgeting and managing costs and revenue for a bookkeeping function. Students use spreadsheet and database tools such as Excel and Access for business analysis and reporting, gaining hands-on practice with QuickBooks and Sage 300 ERP. Graduates may transfer, with credit, into the college's Accounting diploma or advanced diploma programmes.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This certificate requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, or mature-applicant status at 19 or older, plus a Grade 12 English College or University preparation course (or Centennial's own English Admission Test) and Grade 11 or Grade 12 Mathematics at the College, Mixed, or University level, or Centennial's Math Skills Assessment for Admission. The program page defers its English-proficiency standard to Centennial's institution-wide requirement, which for certificate and diploma programs sets IELTS Academic 6.0 with no band below 5.5, TOEFL iBT 67 with Reading at least 16 and Writing at least 23, and PTE Academic 51. Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca; international applicants apply directly to Centennial. No minimum admission GPA is published. The availability table currently lists only a Winter 2027 (January) intake.
Application Details
Start Date:Winter 2027 only
Application Deadline:Centennial publishes no application deadline for this program; what follows is the Ontario college cycle that governs it. Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca: for a program starting in Fall 2027 the equal-consideration date is 1 February 2027, and applications arriving after it are still assessed, but first-come first-served while places remain. Across the Ontario college system the application opened on 26 September 2026, offers may be issued from 1 November 2026, and an offer must be accepted by 1 May 2027. One $150 fee covers up to five program choices. International applicants apply directly to Centennial through its own international application process and are assessed on a rolling basis across the Fall, Winter and Summer intakes; the college publishes no fixed international closing date. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
