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By John Carpenter, MBA FCGA, CEO of CGA Alberta & Kara Mitchelmore, MBA, FCMA, CEO of CMA Alberta What now: We are now well underway with our unification efforts and our progress has been impressive. But our businesses are complex and there is a great deal to do. Lots of our members face such challenges…
As you know, we have reached the next stage in our efforts to merge the Canadian and Alberta accounting profession and we and our CMA partners in Alberta are moving steadily toward the necessary organizational and legal changes here to make that a reality. The decision and its consequences are a “generational event” for many…
Summer’s over. You’re back to work and so are we. Early last month CGA Alberta and CMA Alberta asked our members to support a great idea: we wanted to join forces within our national and our provincial organizations. We thought it was a great idea and so did you. So we talked about the merger…
CGA Alberta CEO John Carpenter MBA FCGA responds to CGA Canada’s remarks on Michael Kirby’s opinion piece ”Let CA, CMA and CGA give way to CPA” in the June 26th issue of the National Post. Many members will recall that CGA Alberta had very firmly excluded itself from the merger discussions which were ongoing initially between…
CGA Alberta has been involved in various merger conversations over the past several years. We have always entered such discussions with the confidence any successful, well-established competitor should. There are no reasons for us to compromise regarding our members, students, or other stakeholders in order to make a deal. Rather, we make our choices from…
Since the proposal on unification has been sent to all of you, we have been trying hard to respond to all of your questions and have been carefully reading your comments. I would like to thank all of you for your thoughtful reflection on what we are trying to accomplish on your behalf. I have…
CGA Canada announced yesterday it has withdrawn from unification discussions. Our affiliates in Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and BC have also terminated discussions. Some of you may be anxious about where this leaves CGA Alberta. I believe this leaves us in a position of leadership. While our affiliates’ unification talks have ceased, we have reaffirmed our…
I know many of you are anxious to know about the status of our unification discussions in Alberta and others of you are interested to know my views on why a merger of the accounting profession in Canada is a good idea. I can tell you there has been a great deal of energy invested…
A provincial election is looming and it’s now expected for April 23 in Alberta. So any meaningful discussion of fiscal policy in Alberta seems unlikely for the next month or so. CGA Alberta and our Alberta Chambers of Commerce partners will soon be releasing our latest Vision 2020 study on Taxation Policy; so we will…
In a column in the National Post last month, Jack Mintz of the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy pointed out the escalating per capita commitment of the Government of Alberta to Program Spending. By our reckoning that growth is about 23% over the 5 years ending in 2012, or a compound rate (well…
