The Professional Development Institute’s Continuing Education department offers a number of workshops specific to the interests of Consulting CMAs, including workshops that are approved by the Canadian Association of Management Consultants (CMC-Canada).

Offerings include workshops that are mandatory for new Consulting CMAs and are designed to assist and prepare them in starting their practice. These mandatory workshops include practical information about many aspects of developing and maintaining a practice. They also provide an overview of CMA Ontario Rules and Regulations, helping prepare Consulting CMAs for practice inspections and explaining their professional obligations as a Consulting CMA.

Other Consulting CMA workshops are offered to keep Consulting CMAs up-to-date with current trends and relevant topics. Workshop topics include: Personal and Corporate Taxation, Ethics, and Compilation Engagement, which is a mandatory workshop for all Consulting CMAs planning to prepare financial statements.

Essentials of Management Consulting workshops are also offered in partnership with CMC and will be of particular interest for those who are interested in pursing the Certified Management Consultant (CMC) designation.

Continuing Education’s Financial Accounting workshops will appeal to CFOs, Financial Analysts and Senior Managers involved in financial accounting. Workshops include: Accounting Standards for Private Enterprise, Manager Transfer Pricing and Pricing Power.

The full-day, interactive ‘Accounting Standards for Private Enterprise’ workshop works through the new standards and helps participants to assess the implications for their organization and ensure that it is in compliance with GAAP.

The Pricing Power workshop outlines pricing concepts and tools that support improvements to an organization’s bottomline as well as introducing several bestin class pricing management practices.

The Managing Transfer Pricing Workshop focuses on the complexities of documenting inter-company transfer pricing transactions and also investigates strategies to optimize an organization’s global tax position.

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The Professional Development Institute’s Continuing Education department offers a number of IT related workshops and a two-day symposium specifically tailored to the role of the accountant. Workshops provide expert training in Microsoft applications regularly used by accounting professionals in their daily working life. Applications covered include: Access, Excel, Pivot Tables and PowerPoint.

The workshops are designed to provide deeper insight into the use of these Microsoft applications in order to make it easier and faster to perform routine accounting tasks.

Continuing Education offers a unique opportunity for those working in senior financial management positions to update their strategic management accounting knowledge with diverse professional development opportunities in the Management Accounting field.

Both CMAs and non-members in financial leadership positions will benefit from several full-day, interactive workshops in the areas of: Planning and Budgeting; Strategy; Leadership; Corporate Fraud; Cost Management and much more. Offerings also include several practical workshops devoted to the role of the Controller.

Workshop participants will also gain tremendous value from sharing the experiences and practices of fellow executive-level peers.

In addition to covering a wide-range of topics required for financial management and accounting positions, the Professional Development Insitute’s Continuing Education department is pleased to offer several informative and practical ‘soft-skills’ workshops.

Topics include: presentation skills, time management, team building, communications, negotiation skills and creative thinking.