Dates and location
Hours
Dates and location
Hours
Description
This course is the second phase of a three-part Career Skills Program entiled ‘Investing In Your Career’. This phase is designed for CPA students in months 6-12 of their practical experience.
This second phase focuses on developing key skills for CPA students across several areas. It explores the connection between professional skepticism and critical thinking, emphasizing the importance of objectivity and mitigating cognitive biases. In terms of business acumen, students will gain an understanding of a CPAs role across industries. Additionally, the program will teach students to create and analyze PivotTables and PivotCharts, use conditional formatting and intermediate Excel functions.
There will be a series of live in-person workshops and self-paced learning designed to help CPA students invest in their career and add value to their organization and stakeholders.
Students may benefit from employer reimbursement. You can either click on the Speak to an Advisor button to learn more or download the Employer Request Letter below.
Program experience will include:
- Instructor-led case study discussions
- Real world practical simulation exercises
- Collaborative peer learning teams
- Networking opportunities
- Workshops and role plays
Note: You can find the other program phases and the full program below here:
Group Discount: For groups of 5 students or more, a 15% group discount will apply. If you are a firm that has less than 5 students, please speak to an advisor who can help pair you with another organization so that a consortium of smaller firms can avail of the 15% discount.
Speak to an Advisor
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Schedule
| Date | Time | Description |
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| January 8, 2026 | 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |
Professional Skepticism
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| 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Resilience in the Workplace
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| January 9, 2026 | 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Business Acumen
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11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. & 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Intermediate Excel for CPA Students
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| January 10, 2026 – September 2, 2026 |
5 Hours of Self-Paced Learning |
Microsoft Excel 2021: Intermediate (Free On Demand Course) On completion of this course, you will be able to:
This course comes with a downloadable learner guide, quick reference guide and practice files. |
Key Takeaways
During this course, participants will learn how to:
- Explore attributes, mindsets and actions of professional skepticism.
- Approach challenges directly and adapt to change with a solution-orientated mindset
- Apply strategic thinking to align accounting with business goals.
- Create, customize, and analyze PivotTables and PivotCharts to effectively summarize and visualize large datasets.
Who Will Benefit
This program is primarily aimed at CPA students in firms who are new to the workforce and learning how to adapt to the challenges and motivations of a professional environment. A secondary audience who could benefit include junior CPA aspirants who have 1-3 years of work experience already.
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Attendance Requirements
To earn your CPD hours you must attend all live sessions. We understand that sometimes unplanned absences happen. Please reach out to our Operations Team if you're unable to attend a session as scheduled.
Disclaimer
The views expressed in the course are non-authoritative and have not been formally endorsed by CPA Ontario and do not reflect the views of CPA Ontario. The information included in the course is for general information purposes only.
CPA Ontario, the presenters and the authors do not accept any responsibility or liability that might occur directly or indirectly as a consequence of the use or application of or reliance on this material.
How to Access the Course
We're pleased to invite you to register for our Certificate courses. Whether or not you're a CPA, you're more than welcome to join us on this learning journey. To get started, you'll need to create an account. Don't worry if you don't have a CPA Ontario ID yet; you can easily set up your account right here. Let's begin your learning adventure together.
This CPA Ontario course is a hybrid certificate program, with in person instruction and on demand learning. This is an in person event and you must attend the event in person to receive verifiable CPD hours.
To access the course please visit our BlackBoard site, and log-in using the same login and password used for the Registration Portal.
Please allow up to 15 minutes after registration for the certificate program to appear on your BlackBoard page.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD policies can be found here.
Speaker(s)
This program will be taught by a group of experienced CPAs and interpersonal skills facilitators. More details to follow shortly.