UBC Okanagan will no longer offer key accounting classes in the fourth year Management degree program, which leaves about 50 students who want to become professional accountants high and dry come the fall.
Dean Dr. Roger Sugden made the surprise announcement Monday during the last class of the year.
Closed door information sessions for students, which continue until Thursday, have been frustrating, say students, who feel like Dr. Sugden has been “beating around the bush”.
Dr. Sugden defends his right to cancel the classes, saying many specialty disciplines, like professional accounting, require students to seek special courses off campus.
UBCO Management students with eyes toward becoming professional accountants after fourth year in the fall feel abandoned by the school and their Dean.
Dr. Sugden says the Management lacked the financial and educational instructors to continue the specialized accounting classes in fourth year.
Students who continue at UBCO and still want to study to become professional accountants will be offered tutorial support on campus, but they’ll have to pick up the courses at other post-secondary institutions.
The Management program will add a new accounting class which teaches managers how to communicate with accountants.
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