CPA Canada wooing members

Group aims to keep accountants from Ontario, Quebec

- ROSA SABA

Four months out from an unprecedented split between the regulators for accountants in Ontario and Quebec and their national counterpart, CPA Canada is pitching a new, separate membership to accountants in the departing provinces.

On Sept. 4, CPA Canada said provincial members in those jurisdictions can remain part of the national organization for $195 a year.

The provincial bodies may be the regulators for chartered professional accountants, “but we’re the only organization dedicated to CPAs right across Canada,” said president and CEO Pamela Steer in an interview.

However, CPA Ontario and the Quebec CPA Order stressed that CPAs are required to be members of their provincial regulatory bodies, but not necessarily a part of the national organization.

They say they were not consulted on the latest update from CPA but are committed to collaborating with their provincial and territorial counterparts on important matters in the CPA profession, to funding standard-setting and to providing members access to resources including the CPA handbook.