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The beauty of the CGA program is that you can get your professional work experience anywhere…it is a matter of finding progressively higher level experience to fulfill your competencies and PERC (professional experience required for certification). CGA does NOT dictate where you should get your experience, giving you alot of flexibility and freedom in your…
By Lise Stransky, Manager, Career Services, CGA Ask 25 people for advice on your resume, and you’ll get 25 different answers. Like politics, Pepsi vs Coke, and Hockey (who IS going to go all the way in the playoffs this year?), everyone has an opinion on how a resume should look, what information it should…
We live in a digital age – obviously, you’re reading this online right now – and because of this, we’re all guilty at least some of the time of being too connected. Our friends at Robert Half International put together an excellent resource for the new rules of etiquette in the workplace (linked at the…
by Lise Stransky, Manager, Career Services for CGA Alberta Hard to believe that in a few short months, you will be walking the stage with your degree in hand. The culmination of several years of study, many long nights of writing essays, days of attending lectures and seminars, have all boiled down to this one…
by Cory Lockhart, B.Comm., C.G.A. Upon graduation, the CGA designation will give you endless career opportunities. As a CGA, you can work in industry, public practice or become self-employed. The choice is yours and the possibilities are infinite. Currently, I’m working on my second start up and am a partner at a family based public…
By Cory A. Ross, Admissions Advisor for CGA Alberta Today is never a good day to start shopping for the holidays. Tomorrow’s always more convenient because you’re too busy today. Tomorrow there’s a sale, but today it’s full price. I’ll wait until tomorrow. But at some point, usually around December 24th, ‘tomorrow’ becomes Christmas Eve…
By Cory A. Ross, Admissions Advisor for CGA Alberta On the surface, it seems like an unlikely pairing, but I’m here to tell you there’s much you can apply to your accounting and business life from the world of sports. With one of the most memorable World Series in recent years in the books, this…
If you’ve been considering joining an accounting designation you may be wondering what to do right now. No doubt you’ve heard about the discussions that are going on about a possible merger. You also may know that a merger between the CAs and CMAs was considered in 2004 and it eventually fell apart as an…
