Jan1
Critical Thinking: Gaining Buy-in and Commitment — On Demand
As human beings we tend to make assumptions and jump to conclusions without looking for required information or alternative solutions. Utilizing real-world examples, exercises, and tips, this webcast will help you improve your critical thinking skills and outline how to apply these skills to make better decisions in all areas.
CGA-Canada
Jan1
Positive Networking ® — Refresh and Recharge Your Skills — On Demand
Join positive networking experts Gayle Hallgren-Rezac and Judy Thomson and discover how to stay connected with one of the most valuable assets you have — your network. Learn how to build a diverse strategic network to tap into for valuable information, insight, and advice.
CGA-Canada
Jan1
Career Progression, Part 1: Take Control of Your Path — On Demand
Take control of your career path and sharpen your skills for future job market opportunities. Join Jennifer Gervès-Keen in this first webcast of the Career Progression Series, where you will gain tools such as goal setting, reviewing current resume techniques, and employer expectation that will help you be successful in your career transition.
CGA-Canada
Jan1
Career Progression, Part 2: Job Search Skills and Techniques — On Demand
Take control of your career path and sharpen your skills for future job market opportunities. Join Jennifer Gervès-Keen in this second webcast of the Career Progression Series, where you will gain further knowledge, such as job search techniques, interview skills, and networking that will help you be successful in your career transition.
CGA-Canada
Mar26
Identifying Career Opportunities
Career opportunities can be hard to identify. This article will help you recognize them by using a thoughtful and deliberate approach.
CGA-Canada
Mar26
Positioning Yourself for Career Advancement
This article provides you with some steps to showcase yourself as opportunities for promotion become available within your current employment, even if your company does not put focus on succession planning and career development.
CGA-Canada
Jan1
Leading Successful Change — On Demand
Given today’s pace and scope of innovation and constant transition, knowing how to manage and implement significant change within an organization is essential. Join Chris Edgelow in this engaging and highly practical webcast where he will provide an overview of what is required to ensure changes yield the desired results.
CGA-Canada
Mar25
Corporate Social Responsibility & Ethics
The subject of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) resonates throughout today’s business community. Discover the topical issues that define CSR — environment, social responsibility, and corporate governance — and examine how ethics factors into the accompanying issues affecting business leaders today.
CGA-Canada
Jan1
Corporate Social Responsibility: Enhance Your Bottom Line — On Demand
The need to exercise strong leadership in the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is mandatory for contemporary business leaders. Join presenter Jeff Buckstein has he summarizes CSR best practices and provides a solid base of information for financial professionals at all levels who are tasked with implementing or managing CSR strategies in their organizations.
CGA-Canada
Feb26
2011 National Business Ethics Survey
This annual survey, by the Ethics Resource Centre, revealed both ominous warning signs of a potentially significant ethics decline ahead as well as some positive news when it comes to employee reporting.
CGA-Canada
Feb26
Mid-sized Firms Need to be in Consulting
You’re a mid-sized accounting firm that’s never considered making a significant commitment to developing a consulting side. Why not, argues this article in Accounting Today?
CGA-Canada
Feb26
Impact of Millennials on CPA Firms
The Millennial generation (18 to 29) may be the newest generation in the workforce, but they are already having an impact everywhere, including the accounting profession, and probably in your firm as well.
CGA-Canada
Feb26
How to Lead Change: 3 Simple Steps
To be an effective leader, managing change effectively is crucial. This article will give you three steps to put the change you want to implement in practice.
CGA-Canada
Jan1
Attention Please: The 3 Ps of Public Speaking — On Demand
The ability to deliver information is critical and presentation skills are a must. From preparing you to deliver, presenting what it is you want to say, focusing your message, to adding engagement to your presentation, this webcast is invaluable to your professional development.
CGA-Canada
Jan1
Social Media and the CGA: New Ways of Working, Learning, Earning — On Demand
This special presentation will define what it means to be 'social' in today's professional environment, and why it's more important to you than ever. Participants will also be provided with a quick introduction to the social tools and technologies, and what they mean to CGAs now, and in the future.
CGA-Canada
Feb4
Why Ethics Hotlines Are Considered a Best Practice
An ethics hotline can make an enormous difference in your business. It can not only cut down on the incidence of fraud, it also sets in motion a whole litany of ethical best practices to help ensure that your company has the best chance of policing itself over the long term against fraud and other malfeasance.
CGA-Canada
Jan7
Highlights of Finance and Accounting Ethics Research
This article in Journal of Accountancy illustrates some of the changes in thinking that have occurred in ethical practices affecting finance and accounting, with perhaps a surprise or two in the mix.
CGA-Canada
Jan4
Lead Us Not to Temptation
In a global economy, it’s inevitable that you and your company will be exposed to very different cultural practices than here in North America when dealing overseas. Attitudes towards corruption, such as bribery, are key areas where these differences can be pronounced, points out this eye-opening CGA Magazine article.
CGA-Canada
Nov30
Level 5 Leadership — Achieving "Greatness" as a Leader
What makes great leaders? Truly great leaders have a specific blend of skills. This article examines Level 5 Leadership, a powerful resource that will give you tips on going from good to great in a leadership role.
CGA-Canada
Nov30
Emotional Intelligence — Developing Strong "People Skills"
What is emotional intelligence and how do we get there? As more and more people accept that emotional intelligence is just as important to professional success as technical ability, organizations are increasingly using EI when they hire and promote. This is a great article on the topic of self-awareness.
CGA-Canada
Nov28
How Leaders Become Self-Aware
Self-awareness is critical in business-building success. Without self-awareness, you cannot understand your strengths and weakness, your super powers; versus your kryptonite. This article breaks it down and provides you with three key ways to become more self-aware.
CGA-Canada
Nov27
Characteristics and Skills of the Forensic Accountant
Do you think you have the skills to become a forensic accountant? It’s a fast growing field with a lot of demand, and could offer a great career. But according to this study by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), it’s not a specialty for everybody with an accounting degree.
CGA-Canada
Nov27
Embracing Change in the Accounting Profession
To get ahead in today’s world, accountants not only have to accept change, they need to embrace it, Jason Blumer emphasizes in this article for Accounting Web. One of the key areas driving this change is technology.
CGA-Canada
Nov27
CPA Horizons 2025: A Road Map for the Future
Accountants are finding significant changes occurring with their roles and responsibilities; consequently adjustments are needed in the skill sets required to fulfill those. This comprehensive study by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) ...
CGA-Canada
Jan1
CGA New Brunswick — Professional Development
Seminar Date: January 1, 2011
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As your partner in learning, CGA New Brunswick presents quality career growth opportunities for members, students and the public. The programs are always current and offer...
CGA-NB
Nov6
Ethics Online: Professional and Personal Ethics in Organizations
This course examines what it means to be a CGA professional dedicated to ethical decision making. Ethics deals with the myriad free zones of moral choice and judgment about what is “right” or “best” to do. It covers decision making where the law does not prescribe a minimum standard or where we seek to act in a manner that is above the minimum prescribed legal standard, such as in a Code of Ethics.
CGA-Canada
Oct29
Canadian Business Contracts Handbook
This book, published by Self-Counsel Press in 2011, has been written as a resource guide for the multiple small businesses across Canada that CGAs serve.
CGA-Canada
Oct29
Breach of Contract
This article, which appears on the website of the law firm Blake, Cassels and Graydon LLP, provides a general description of contract law in Canada (with the exception of Quebec, which is governed by civil law), as well as various remedies for breach.
CGA-Canada
Oct29
Six Secrets of High-Performing Firms
In an article for cpa2biz.com. Telberg interviews Sam Allred, a CPA with Montana-based firm Anderson ZurMuehlen, who offers six key performance indicators he believes can provide excellence to accounting firms in these tough economic times.
CGA-Canada
Oct29
Performance Measurement: Making It Work
As an accountant, your business and client trust depends on your proficiency at being able to keep hard numbers and accurate records. So why should your employee evaluation process be any different? That’s the argument put forth by Troy Waugh, CPA, in his book Leading an Accounting Firm: The Pyramid of Success.
CGA-Canada
Oct29
ERM in a CPA Practice
This article, examines the benefits that can accrue when service companies prioritize corporate sustainability and environmental performance.
CGA-Canada
Oct29
Motivating Employees
One of the keys to performance management is motivated employees. How do we motivate employees when we are dealing with individuals? This article provides multiple techniques to help you find your success in motivating others.
CGA-Canada
Oct2
Risk Management Guide for Small to Medium Business
If you are looking for a comprehensive checklist of potential risks faced by small and medium sized enterprises (SME), this report by CPA Australia is thorough in its content. It identifies a multitude of potential risks faced by SMEs, along with suggestions on possible strategies to mitigate or manage those risks.
CGA-Canada
Oct2
Risk Management Is More Than Just Risk Mitigation
We have all been trained as accountants to think of risk mitigation as being a key component of risk management. But as this interesting article posted by Jim Haughwout points out, managing risk involves more than just mitigating possible threats. All risks are not created equal.
CGA-Canada
Sep20
The Importance of Board Support for Enterprise Risk Management: Part 3
This video contains an interesting perspective on how aspects of enterprise risk management are conducted at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. This segment, the third of three parts, focuses on the audit committee’s leadership role in assessing risk, compliance and controls in place throughout the university.
CGA-Canada
Sep20
What Kills Startups?
Entrepreneurs of small and medium sized start-ups face a high failure rate almost out of the starting gate. But understanding organizational risk and how to handle that can greatly increase odds of survival. This article nicely encapsulates some of the risks faced by start-ups, as well as the potential risks each might entail.
CGA-Canada
Sep20
The Importance of Board Support for Enterprise Risk Management: Part 1
This video contains an interesting perspective on how aspects of enterprise risk management are conducted at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. This segment, the first of three parts, focuses on how the university’s board of directors is involved and has a leadership role in implementing strategic risk and mitigation strategies.
CGA-Canada
Aug20
Social Crunch: The Accountants Guide to Social Media Marketing
Have you just gotten over the hurdle of thinking about social media exclusively in terms of professional networking? And are you now ready to embrace it as a means of mainstream business communication? This guide, by Top Dog Social Media, which is based in Kelowna, BC, can help you.
CGA-Canada
Aug20
Social CPAs: Social Media Insights for Accountants
Now here’s something unique, incorporating two concepts that a few years ago you might have thought were mutually exclusive. It’s a website devoted exclusively to social media insights, but one that is written exclusively for accountants!
CGA-Canada
Aug20
Getting Social: Tips for Implementing Social Accounting
Having decided your firm is going to get proactive with its use of social media, what are the next strategic steps? This article by Tom Brennan in Accounting Today can help you assess some of the technical considerations you need to take into account.
Other
Jan1
Quick Month-End Reporting in Three Days or Less, Part 1 — On Demand
Finance teams around the world are spending too much time on month-end reporting. This webcast will provide insight to shorten your month-end reporting process. Currently achieved by leading organizations around the world, quick reporting will have a profound impact within the organization and free the finance team to look into the future instead of being the organization’s historians.
CGA-Canada
Jan1
Mastering Forecasting — On Demand
In this second webcast of a two-part series, budgeting and forecasting revolutionary Dr. Steve Morlidge will address the importance of understanding forecasting. This webcast will introduce six principles of forecast mastery applicable to any type of business, particularly those seeking to move away from traditional static budgeting.
CGA-Canada
Jan1
Budgeting in the 21st Century — On Demand
In this first part of a two-part webcast series, budgeting and forecasting revolutionary Dr. Steve Morlidge will address the need for change in the budgeting model used by organizations today. Common problems with the budgeting process will be analyzed to give participants actionable takeaways to improve the budgeting process and treat the symptoms arising from the use of the current budgeting model.
CGA-Canada
Jul24
Environmental Issues in the Service Sector
Corporate success is no longer measured solely by the financial bottom line. Social and environmental considerations also need to be taken into account. Your role as an accountant reflects this evolution. This article, published in Management Ethics, a magazine published by the Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy ...
CGA-Canada
Jul24
Good Practice Checklist for Small Business
Looking for a good practice checklist to offer your small business clients? This publication, from the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) offers a concise checklist format of various activities businesses need to undertake to ensure success.
CGA-Canada
Jul24
Why Ethics Hotlines Are Considered a Best Practice
Ethical practices have always been a strong suit for most accounting professionals. Unfortunately some well publicized lapses of ethical behaviour involving accountants were documented in financial collapses early in the 21st century (i.e. Enron, WorldCom).
CGA-Canada
Jan1
Strategic Planning, Part 2: Implementing Change in Your Organization — On Demand
This webcast will outline how you can manage change and ensure that strategic decisions are implemented throughout your organization. Through the use of balanced scorecards and dashboards, it will address how you can better map out the future of your organization and then align day-to-day operations with long-term goals and visions.
CGA-Canada
Jul9
CGA-Alberta — Live Seminar PD Event Page
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Association events and seminars bring CGAs, students and other professionals together for valuable learning and networking. The Events pages present detailed descriptions of PD opportunities and special events around Alberta as well ...
CGA-AB
Jan1
Strategic Planning, Part 1: How to Prepare Your Organization for Success — On Demand
This webcast addresses one of the fundamental challenges facing all businesses: How can we transform our decisions into successful long-term planning when we do not know what is going to happen down the road? In this session, Mark Hollingworth will provide key insights, techniques, and models that will help you better prepare for the future.
CGA-Canada
Jun25
10 Mental Traits of Truly Innovative Leaders
In this resource the author identifies 10 key traits of innovative leaders and entrepreneurs, those who are absolute masters at drawing profitable conclusions from problems and ideas from totally unrelated fields. He also provides tips on how you can develop and apply these traits in your own leadership.
CGA-Canada
Jun25
Lunch Breaks: Do They Do a Body Good?
How often do you miss taking a lunch break at work or eat a hurried lunch at your desk? If you answered "often." you are not alone. Could doing so actually be to your detriment? This article by Rebecca Stropoli is published on the Yahoo Canada Finance web page.
CGA-Canada
Jun25
Don't Let Your Job Search Depress You
If you've ever spent much time looking for a job, you may have found yourself feeling frustrated by the process or even worse. Priscilla Claman, President of Career Strategies, offers a few tips to manage your feelings and your job search.
CGA-Canada
Jun25
Why Working More Than 40 Hours a Week Is Useless
Do you or your employees work far longer hours than 40 on a consistent basis? In the accounting and finance world it is often the norm and the expectation, but it can come with a price.
CGA-Canada
Jun25
The Way We Work Is Making Us Dumber
Do you ever feel like you can't concentrate or think as well or as clearly as you used to? A recent University of California at Irvine study shows that the high volume of e-mails many people receive can increase stress and reduce their ability to concentrate.
CGA-Canada
Jun25
Take Back Your Life in Seven Simple Steps
How much does technology run your life? Technology has made us more productive — and maybe also less productive — as we spend time not only on value-add activities but also sometimes impulsively on time wasting and attention-reducing activities.
CGA-Canada
Jun25
Strategy: Does It Benefit Your Company to Go Green?
Many businesses view sustainability as a matter of corporate philanthropy, rather than as an efficient business strategy. But recently, more and more organizations are finding that sustainability isn’t just about ethics; it also makes good business sense.
CGA-Canada
Jun25
The HOW Report: New Metrics for a New Reality
This LRN white paper looks at how governance, culture, and leadership influence behavior and impact performance. Among the findings are that only 3% of companies worldwide report high levels of trust, values, commitment to a purpose, and collaboration.
CGA-Canada
Jun25
Business and Human Rights: Interview with John Ruggie
In an interview posted on businessethics.com, Harvard professor and UN Special Representative John Ruggie, discusses the implications and uptake of the United Nations Human Rights Council's principles designed to address human rights abuses by business.
CGA-Canada
Jun25
Speaking Up
This white paper published by the LRN provides a brief overview of how the organization helps companies increase employee comfort in speaking up about concerns of alleged misconduct, and how managers can address retaliation in the workplace.
CGA-Canada
Jun21
Understanding Millennials in the Workplace
This article, examines the impact of the youngest, so-called Millennial generation in the workforce (roughly aged 32 and under), and suggests how CPA firms can utilize this generation’s particular skills and attitudes to their advantage in terms of organizational strategy.
CGA-Canada
Jun21
The Bottom Line
This article contains quotes from Greg Twinney, CGA, the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Kobo Inc., which provides a global eReading service. Mr. Twinney discusses how his professional skills have been much in demand throughout his career at various entrepreneurial ventures in early start-up phases.
CGA-Canada
Jun21
Letter from China
This article was written by Neil Tait, CGA, a special advisor on Asia to the president and chief executive officer of BMO Financial Group, based on an address he delivered to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.
CGA-Canada
Jun21
ERM in a CPA Practice
This article examines the potential advantages that enterprise risk management (ERM) can provide CPA firms by virtue of the process of “accessing, controlling, and monitoring risk across lines of business and functions.”
CGA-Canada
Jun21
Accounting, Employment and the State of the Insurance Industry
This article discusses the contribution that CGAs are making to the Canadian insurance industry. It also examines issues such as the impact of market-to-market accounting on the insurance industry; and the various competencies, skill sets and intangibles required to succeed in insurance.
CGA-Canada
Jan1
From Controller to CFO, Part 1: The Task Aspects of the Role — On Demand
Career accountants will typically achieve their highest financial role as a Chief Financial Officer. What are the concerns and skills of an effective CFO who operates in today’s marketplace? This webcast will outline the key aspects of a typical CFO role and will then focus on the core tasks that form part of the job.
CGA-Canada
Jan1
Getting Your Ideas Across to Management — On Demand
Your ability to persuade, influence, and get your ideas accepted by others, particularly those who are senior to you in an organization, is key to professional and career success. Learn specific and practical ways to gain respect and influence for your ideas in this webcast presented by workplace communications expert Merge Gupta Sunderji.
CGA-Canada
May15
The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time
Ever feel burned out or overwhelmed? How often to you check your e-mail or texts inside and outside work? How often do you juggle multiple tasks? When was the last time you were truly focused on just one thing, or on one stream of thought?
CGA-Canada
May15
Overcome Your Work Addiction
Are you addicted to work? Professor and writer Leslie A. Perlow writes, "Consider the following: Works long hours. Carries wireless device everywhere. On the phone at kid's soccer game. Checks in frequently during vacation. Does this describe your life?"
CGA-Canada
May15
Do People Really Want You to Be Honest?
Do you ever bend the truth even just a little to try to protect people's feelings or to achieve a desired effect? Inside and outside business this happens all the time. What if honesty was more desirable and effective?
CGA-Canada
May15
Six Reasons Why You Didn't Get the Job
Have you ever applied or interviewed for a job you felt you were a fit for and heard nothing or did not get the job? Ever wonder why? Here are some pretty common reasons you may not have considered.
CGA-Canada
May15
The Only Three Job Interview Questions that Matter
Looking for some tips on how to sell yourself better in an interview? This article summarizes the three key things most hiring managers want to find out during an interview and offers some associated tips.
CGA-Canada
May15
How to Keep Your Cool During a Performance Review
It's not usually comfortable for most people to listen to feedback. How good are you at receiving and implementing feedback from a performance review? This article by Robert M. Galford is posted on Harvard Business Review's HBR Blog Network.
CGA-Canada
May15
Drew Dudley: Everyday Leadership
What do you think it takes for you to be a leader? What if it can be sometimes as simple as saying something or doing something that influences others positively? In this Ted.com talk, Drew Dudley calls on all of us to celebrate leadership as the everyday act of improving each other’s lives.
CGA-Canada
Apr20
Develop Productivity Rituals
Do you ever feel like you have too much to do in your workday or personal life? In this video, posted on Harvard Business Reviews HBR Blog Network, Tony Schwartz, President and CEO of The Energy Project, lists the top four habits that help him get more work done.
CGA-Canada
Apr20
Bad Habits That Can Sabotage Your Job Search
Looking for work can be challenging and thankfully most of us have not had to become well-practiced at it. This article provides a few great tips. I've seen quite a few accounting and finance professionals who are actively looking for their next role who could have benefited from reading this article.
CGA-Canada
Apr20
Three Words That Guaranty Failure
When you set goals do you ever inadvertently set yourself up to fail? According to author Geoffrey James, "People who fail to achieve goals signal their intent to fail by using this common phrase." This is a very short article, but it contains some simple wisdom and insight worth considering!
CGA-Canada
Apr20
Brené Brown: Listening to Shame
Brené Brown has spent the past 10 years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. She believes that vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage and is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change. In this Ted.com video, she explores shame and confronting shame head on.
CGA-Canada
Apr20
New Year, New Life 2012 — Anthony Robbins
Do you ever wonder why there are certain goals you want to achieve that somehow you just can't achieve, or you can only get part way towards and then give up? This Tony Robbins video provides four steps for turning resolutions into real results and for creating lasting transformation.
CGA-Canada
Jan1
Advanced Internet Research Techniques for Accountants — On Demand
When you search the Internet, do you type a word or two into Google.com and hope for the best? This webcast reveals how to instantly improve your search powers and web productivity. No matter how web savvy you think you are, you're guaranteed to learn simple, effective search strategies that will take you to the next level of online intelligence gathering.
CGA-Canada
Jan1
Mastering Difficult Conversations — On Demand
Challenging conversations represent the minority of our workplace interactions while consuming a vast amount of our mental energy. In this webcast, you'll learn how to convey difficult messages in a respectful manner and end a challenging conversation in a way that sets the stage for future collaboration.
CGA-Canada
Jan1
Time Management: When Everything Is a Priority — On Demand
Using practical, hands-on exercises and tested techniques, this webcast will help you rise to the challenges of a fast-paced world. You will gain insight into how you currently use your time, learn tools to combat time-wasters, and implement simple yet powerful strategies to gain an extra hour each day.
CGA-Canada
Mar15
In Denial: Why We Are Still Stressed
Are you or anyone around you stressed? Large numbers of people are stressed out. Many, extremely so. And far too many are failing to take adequate action to alleviate the stress in their lives. Why? This article by Amanda Enayati is published on the CNN Health site.
CGA-Canada