My colleague, let’s call him Steve, gave a presentation pre-COVID to a room full of two hundred business professors. Luckily for us, it was recorded. When I pressed play, I saw Steve, in a suit and in front of a large, wooden podium. Steve’s talk was great. He spoke fluently, paused appropriately. Then, about halfway through his twelve-minute presentation, Steve started discussing the history of accounting.

As a CPA Candidate, you are bound by the Rules of Professional Conduct, just as a CPA would be. Given our CPA profession is self-regulated, it is logical a core element of that Code is integrity. Below is some advice, evidence, and replies for you to consider when drafting communication with integrity to any person.

As a CPA Candidate, you are bound by the Rules of Professional Conduct, just as a CPA would be. Given our CPA profession is self-regulated, it is logical a core element of that Code is integrity. Below is some advice, evidence, and replies for you to consider when drafting communication with integrity to any person.

CPA PEP candidates will first see DAIS activities in Core 2’s Integrative Problems. Elective modules all include PowerBI tasks. Capstone 1 candidate may choose to use PowerBI to demonstrate DAIS competencies to meet the DAIS insights requirement in Part 3 of the report.

In CPA, PEP candidates must attain a 75 percent overall grade to write each module final exam. Action on the discussion boards and in my inbox around weeks 6/7 (when candidates tend to achieve this score) focuses on whether candidates have to keep completing module activities.

You’ve probably heard “If it is too good to be true, it usually is.” Unless you receive info from a CPA Canada or CPAWSB resource, it is secondary evidence.

As Lead Policy Advisor for CPAWSB I will admit policies sometimes leave me scratching my head. Why is this necessary? Why is this so difficult for people to follow? I have the same questions as candidates likely have.

When delivering the virtual training for new online facilitators, Kami, Nikki, and I made sure to provide moments where trainees could participate, communicate, share, inquire, and learn, and the formal learning interactions occurred as expected. What was missing were the impromptu social experiences that typically happen naturally when a group of like-minded individuals gathers.

If you’re nearing the end of your CPA studies, you may be thinking about sitting on the other side and becoming a facilitator. What exactly does New Facilitator training look like?

We each have our limits, and it’s important to know when we can tap into our energy reserves and when we must replenish them. The advice I follow is to say “yes” until I no longer am excited about saying “yes”. My lack of enthusiasm indicates I either had too much on the go, or it isn’t the right opportunity for me.

We know businesses with multiple sources of income tend to be less “risky”. Ideally, those streams of income complement the natural business cycle, like a landscaper who in the winter, plows snow. As CPAs, we analyze the health of a business, conclude and advise ways to mitigate risks, yet why do so many of us choose to focus all of our efforts on one source of income?

Traditionally, career progression has been referred to as “climbing the corporate ladder”, while recent metaphors include a jungle gym and coloured parachutes. Except, what happens when you don’t know if you want a ladder, jungle gym, or parachute?