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CApitalizeFALL 2011 INTRODUCING ALBERTA STUDENTS TO THE CA PROFESSION Accountants who step up to the plate p.16 New CA Training Offices enter the fold p.12 School of Rock p.28 www.pwcbrilliantfutures.ca FALL 2011 CONTENTS EDITOR 2 Calendar of Events Oscar Barzilay-Lamers Brilliant [email protected] 4 Campus Corner CONTRIBUTORS 6 Prepare for CA recruitment Carly Roemer PROFILE: [email protected] 8 Peaking at the right time futures Katie Starratt [email protected] 11 CA/CMA merger discussions underway Jamie White FEATURE: [email protected] 12 Carving a new path Explore a career as unique and PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY 15 CA designation routes individual as you are. Laughing Dog COVER FEATURE: Work with a team focused on GRAPHIC DESIGN 16 Mixology: Mixing fun with productivity building relationships that create Nathan Webb lasting value. PROFILE: Discover an employer that sees Published by the Institute 21 Striking a chord of Chartered Accountants corporate responsibility as a of Alberta FEATURE: business imperative. 22 Dressing distinctively CEO & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 26 CAEF Teaching Prize Jane Halford ca 26 Don Wilson ca Memorial Scholarship recipient ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE 27 On Campus DIRECTOR Wayne Kauffman fca PROFILE: 28 School of Rock SENIOR DIRECTOR, REGULATORY AFFAIRS 31 CA career path Donna Kline fca GUEST COLUMN: CApitalize is a semi-annual 32 Business-ready wardrobe on a student budget magazine designed to introduce students to the Chartered Accounting profession in Alberta. Published by the Institute of 16 Chartered Accountants of Alberta, the magazine is distributed Cover to more than 4,000 readers, including university, college, and high school students, as well Story as career counselling and other student-oriented centres. 580 Manulife Place 10180 – 101 Street Edmonton AB T5J 4R2 T: 780-424-7391 1-800-232-9406 F: 780-425-8766 [email protected] Carving a We believe in brilliant futures for our people, www.albertaCAs.ca Dressing our clients, our business and the community. ISSN# 1703-0749 new Path Distinctively To fi nd out how you can start creating your own Canadian Publication Mail Agreement #40064884 brilliant future, visit www.pwcbrilliantfutures.ca 12 22 The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta (ICAA) is the self-governing body which regulates more than 12,000 Alberta CAs and CA students. The ICAA protects the public by setting the most rigorous qualification criteria, and establishing and enforcing the highest professional, ethical and practice standards. CAs play key roles within diverse segments of the economy, including public accounting, business, not-for-profit organizations, and government. Recognized internationally, the CA designation denotes superior financial expertise, strategic thinking, business insight and leadership. Fall 2011 CApitalize 1 © 2011 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. All rights reserved. “PwC” refers to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an Ontario limited liability partnership, which is a member fi rm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, each member fi rm of which is a separate legal entity. 0946-0X Brilliant Futures Ads CApitalize Alberta.indd 1 08/08/11 2:10 PM events CALENDAR From career fairs to information and networking sessions, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta is involved in a variety U of A recruiting for Honors program of events on campus. Below is a comprehensive list of events for The University of Alberta is looking for students to enter It can also be completed through a cooperative education business students to watch out for this fall. its Bachelor of Commerce Honors Accounting Program. Its program. The university will specify the necessary electives, challenging curriculum is designed for students who want most of which are finance-based. It also features two new to be leaders of the accounting profession, or interested in accounting courses—one on spreadsheet modeling and one working in positions requiring rigorous preparation in high on professionalism/accounting thought—that are exclusively level business skills. offered in this program. September To be eligible, students must have completed Accounting For more information visit www.business.ualberta.ca/ 414 (Intermediate Financial Accounting I), have a GPA of 3.5 Programs/BachelorOfCommerce/ProspectiveStudents/ 1 All CA student training postings go live or higher, and successfully complete an interview process. AboutBcom/ProgramsOfStudy/BcomHonorsAccounting. aspx, or visit the undergraduate office. 7 New Student Orientation (Mount Royal) This program doesn’t require any additional time to 7 Information Session (Mount Royal) graduate and will still be completed in a four-year timeframe. 8 Haskayne Orientation (University of Calgary) Meet the CA Training Office Events 9 Meet the CA Training Office event (Edmonton) Similar to a career fair format, 9 CA Softball Tournament (U of C) the Meet the CA Training Office events—held in Edmonton, 12/13 Welcome Week (University of Alberta) Lethbridge, and Calgary—are 13 “How to Survive CA Recruitment” Information Session (U of C) specifically for students interested in an accounting co-op, summer 14 Campus Career Expo (University of Saskatchewan) or permanent articling position for ICAA job board can help students find 15 Meet the CA Training Office event (University of Lethbridge) 2012. Take advantage of this great CA employment opportunity to meet with a diverse 15 Meet the CA Training Office event (U of S) group of potential employers. The first step is often the hardest one. In order to help students 16 Meet the CA Training Office event (Calgary) take their inaugural strides to careers as Chartered Accountants, CA application process 17 CA Golf Tournament (U of A Accounting Club) the ICAA has launched a new job board on its website. This board Individuals who are looking for a features CA student positions offered at a wide range of CA 21 Career Fair (U of A) CA training position, whether it is Training Offices. a co-op, summer, or permanent 21 UAAC CA Dinner (U of A) The new webpage, located at www.albertaCAs.ca/ articling position, must submit EmploymentOpportunities.aspx, simplifies the employment 22 CA training position application deadline their resume by the CA application seeking process by allowing users to search posted jobs by deadline to the CA Training Offices 23 Bissett Accounting Student Society Golf Tournament (Mount Royal) position (for example, CA Training Position), as well as location. they are interested in seeking 24 BSA Golf Tournament (U of A) employment with. Students can This website addition was made possible through funding from the Government of Alberta’s Foreign Qualification Recognition 28 Career Fair (U of L) confirm acceptance of offers until the CA acceptance date. Innovation Fund. “This is a huge step forward for our website, and, in turn, it will October If your student group has an event help students and other employment seekers take a similar step you’d like to feature in CApitalize, forward in their careers,” says Jane Halford ca, CEO & Executive 1 Hunt for Hunger (U of C) let us know by emailing Director of the ICAA. “I envision this webpage as a one-stop shop 3 First interviews begin for CA recruitment [email protected]. for all CAs and CA students looking for employment in Alberta.” 19/20 “Get to Work” Career Fair (Grant MacEwan University) The job board can also be found by visiting www.albertaCAs.ca, and clicking on the “Employment Opportunities” tab in the top 26 Career Fair (Concordia) right corner of the homepage, or by scanning here: 31 CA training position acceptance date 2 Fall 2011 CApitalize Fall 2011 CApitalize 3 CAMPUS CORNER Let me The ICAA unveils its first-ever CA Campus Representative Team Jag Mehta Mary Oyebamiji Greg Prizent introduce NAIT University of Calgary University of Alberta The ICAA’s CA Campus Rep team is here to Why were you interested in becoming a CA What have you been doing this past summer? Why have you chosen to pursue a CA assist you in becoming informed about the Campus Rep? I have been working as a Staff Accountant at designation? I felt it would be the best way for me to gain Deloitte for the summer. It is my third co-op To be at the forefront and a leader of the myself Alberta CA profession. Each Alberta post- more knowledge in pursuing a CA designation, work term, and my first job at a CA firm. It accounting profession, I know that in pursuing secondary student will have a participating CA while also networking with people involved in has been a great opportunity and challenging a CA designation I will get the training, the industry as well as prospective students and interesting summer so far. The plan is to knowledge and support which will allow me to Campus Rep who will be the primary point of like myself. travel to Saskatchewan before the end of the achieve my goals. contact for students to get information about summer for a weekend with my sister, but the What have you been doing this past summer? grand plan does not unfold till next summer What is your dream job? the CA career path and the ICAA’s recruitment Oh, you know, just putting myself through when I get to go on a much-needed four- My dream job would be to be the CEO of a the torture of four summer courses, so I can’t month vacation. Fortune 500 technology firm. I have always activities. Each of the ICAA’s 2011/12 Campus really call it a summer. My plans afterward been astounded by the progress of technology Reps are introduced below—if you see them (thankfully) include a trip to New Jersey, New What is your dream job? and being able to have control over that future York, Washington, and Virginia and, believe If I did not have any idea about what I wanted would certainly fulfill a dream.