Webinar Series

Toronto, ON (June 28, 2010) – The Certified General Accountants of Ontario (CGA Ontario) launches a new interactive webinar series targeting high school graduates who will be taking accounting courses at a college or university. Led by CGA program instructor Claire St. Pierre, CGA, the webinars will be hosted on CGA Ontario’s high school engagement website at www.seeyourway.org. Students can log-onto the site at anytime to participate in the webinars.

“We believe it’s critical to ensure students have access to tools that drive success,” said Doug Brooks, FCGA, CEO, Certified General Accountants of Ontario. “This new accounting webinar series will help prepare students who may not have otherwise been exposed to accounting at the high school level for a post-secondary school education in accounting, finance or business – jump-starting their potential for success.”

The webinar series offers preparatory accounting criteria comprised of an introduction to accounting, a case study, and a review of the case study with supporting answers.

The webinar initiative is based on an introductory accounting course offered by Liang Chen, CGA, accounting lecturer at the University of Toronto Scarborough, who recognized that incoming undergraduates would benefit from a preparatory accounting class.

A career you can count on – CGAs are accounting and finance professionals with a difference. Diverse and highly skilled, they have achieved a respected designation through rigorous academic training and intense real-world experience. They’re trained to look beyond the numbers, drawing on their broad learning and individual strengths to facilitate problem solving and provide leadership across industries and within changing business realities. The CGA designation tells an employer that a prospect is well equipped to add value to the organization no matter what the future brings.

Certified general accountants see more than numbers. CGA Ontario is a self-governing body that grants the exclusive right to the CGA designation, and controls the rigorous professional standards of accreditation and professionalism in accounting to protect the public interest for its 20,000 CGAs and 8,000 students who are working towards their CGA designation in Ontario.  /www.cga-ontario.org www.seeyourway.org / www.cga-yourcareer.org / www.facebook.com/cga

For more information, please contact:

Amy Mulhern, Manager, Public Relation, CGA Ontario  
Phone: 416-544-4781 or 1-800-668-1454, ext. 8311  
Mobile: 416-606-5860
Email: amulhern@cga-ontario.org