You need a program that adapts to your needs, lifestyle and experience

• Begin at your optimum level
• Access innovative study options
• Leverage your experience and interests
• Tailor studies to your desired career path
• Maximize efficiency with integrated degree studies
• Retain the flexibility to transfer to other provinces
• Earn while you learn
• Benefit from a highly effective job-finding service

You need Canada’s most adaptable professional accounting designation. The CGA program respects and accommodates your personal learning style, career goals and lifestyle. Here are some of the numerous options available for integrating learning and advancement into the unique realities of your educational, career and personal life.

Begin at your optimum level

Enter the CGA program at a level that is consistent with your educational background. If you are new to accounting education, you can enter at level 1. If you’ve already completed equivalent courses at an approved post-secondary institution, you may apply for transfer credits to enter at a more advanced level.

Access innovative study options

CGA Ontario’s use of innovative educational technologies provides you with an efficient and flexible learning environment. Internet and business software technologies offer the advantages of independent and collaborative learning. Our integrated technology allows you to network, with course directors, tutors and colleagues studying in the CGA program from almost anywhere.

Leverage your experience and interests

Take advantage of the practical experience standard of the CGA program of professional studies. Leverage your interests and determine the avenue you want to pursue in your financial career. Exciting and rewarding opportunities for CGAs exist in all financial and accounting-related employment sectors and roles.

Tailor studies to your desired career path

Enjoy unique opportunities to tailor your professional studies to complement your desired career path. In the professional applications and competency evaluations (PACE) level, there are 14 different career specialties from which you may choose. They span every industry—including corporate and small- to medium-sized enterprises, information technology, government and not-for-profit and public practice—to meet the needs of every accounting professional in every sector.

Maximize efficiency with integrated degree studies

To maintain open access and flexibility, CGA Ontario’s degree requirement is not administered as an entrance requirement, but as a requirement prior to certification. Before your CGA designation is granted, you must hold a degree in any field from an approved, degree-granting institution. If you are entering the CGA program without a degree, take advantage of the exclusive, highly efficient opportunities we offer to complete a bachelor’s degree concurrent with your CGA studies. For more information about degree opportunities available to students in the CGA program, see Prepare to Meet the Degree Requirement.

Retain the flexibility to transfer to other provinces

The CGA designation is recognized throughout Canada and around the world. As a student in the CGA program you have the portability to “transfer” your designation from province to province across the country.

Earn while you learn

Enjoy the benefits of a full-time salary and career advancement while learning as a part-time student. The CGA program is designed to encourage you to work full-time in an accounting or financial management related position, while completing your CGA program of studies.

Benefit from a highly effective job-finding service

CGA Ontario provides an online employment referral service for students in the CGA program located in the student section of CGA Ontario’s website. Employers from around the province advertise a full-range of accounting and financial management positions on our service. Our employment referral service will likely become your primary job-hunting tool.