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Unlock your potential with our 20 Hour Build Your Bundle – where convenience meets personalized learning!
Customize your learning by choosing five on demand courses from a selection of over 50. Choose courses ranging in a variety of popular topics including Ethics, Leadership & Professional Skills, Accounting, Finance, Tax, Technology, and Excel.
- Get your 20 hours of PD from one place!
- Save Time: No need to navigate a vast on demand course catalog to find what you need.
- Set your Schedule & Pace: Learn when it is convenient for you.
- Flexible Choice: Choose your five on demand courses from our seven most sought-after topic areas consisting of over 200 learning hours.
- Save up to $500 vs. individual on demand course purchases.
Review Available Courses For Your 20 Hour Build Your Bundle
Choose your five courses from the list below. These 50+ on demand courses were handpicked across our seven top categories.
Note: Course availability is subject to change.
| Technology Courses | ||
|---|---|---|
| Course Title | PD Hours | Description |
| Accountants, Meet Chatbot: Get the ChatGPT Conversation Started | 2 hours | The course highlights the game-changing potential of ChatGPT in the realm of AI-driven conversations and its specific benefits for accountants in their analytical and advisory roles. |
| Advanced ChatGPT for Accountants | 2 hours | This course concisely explains the latest "see, hear, speak" multi-modal updates to ChatGPT and how they can be practically applied in an accounting context. |
| Artificial Intelligence for Accountants | 2 hours | This course provides a concise overview of artificial intelligence (AI) – a constellation of technologies able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. |
| ChatGPT and Complex Financial and HR Conversations | 2 hours | The course provides a concise overview of how accountants can use ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLMs) to assist with communications involving intricate and often sensitive topics that require a deep understanding of both financial principles and human resource policies. |
| ChatGPT and Taxation Law Research for Accountants | 2 hours | The course provides a concise overview of how to utilize ChatGPT and other generative AI tools for tax law research and compliance. The lessons and strategies are applicable to practically any tax authority. |
| ChatGPT for Accountants | 2 hours | This course provides a concise overview of ChatGPT and GPT. |
| Finance Transformation and the AI Advantage | 1 hour | This course provides insight into various applications of AI and how the technology is impacting CPAs. |
| Understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 1.5 hours | This course will position accounting professionals to be business advisors and take a holistic view of the organization as it adopts new technologies. |
| Accounting Courses | ||
| Course Title | PD Hours | Description |
| ASNFPO: Developing Accounting Policies and Drafting Note Disclosure (2024 Update) | 4 hours | This course provides an overview of the process for developing accounting policies and drafting note disclosure using ASPE (where relevant NPOs) and ASNFPO. |
| ASNFPO: Update 2024 | 4 hours |
This course will provide an information update on recent revisions to the CPA Canada Handbook –Part III, Accounting Standards for Not-for-Profit Organizations (ASNFPO). |
| ASPE Agriculture (3041) | 3.75 hours | This course will highlight the key aspects of the new Canadian ASPE accounting standard for agriculture as it applies to the unique characteristics of agricultural inventories and productive biological assets. |
| ASPE: Developing Accounting Policies and Drafting Note Disclosure | 4 hours | This course provides an overview of the process for developing accounting policies and drafting note disclosure using ASPE. |
| IFRS: The Essentials | 3.75 hours | The course is aimed at participants that want to know what IFRS is about but do not have to implement the standards and understand all of the technical details. |
| Management Accounting: Fundamentals | 7.5 hours | For professional accountants that have not exercised those management accounting muscles in some time (maybe since university), this course will help participants apply management accounting concepts to generate new ideas for problem solving. |
| Finance Courses | ||
| Course Title | PD Hours | Description |
| A Six Point Plan for Financial Freedom | 4 hours | This course is designed to give you the information, tools and confidence to take charge of your personal finance and investing strategy, whether you use a financial advisor or not. |
| Financial Myths That Will Ruin Your Retirement Dreams | 4 hours | There is a lot of confusion when it comes to retirement planning. How much will a family need to retire comfortably? Are RRSPs the best answer? The problem is that much of the common advice is from people with a conflict of interest. This course is designed to cut through the sales pitches and get to the simple truths. |
| How to Maximize Your Investment Returns | 4 hours | This revised course will provide you with a comprehensive overview of the various investment options available to you. It will delve into 10 distinct account types, each with its own set of investment strategies, and will clarify the various investment vehicles you can utilize. |
| How to Read Business Financial Information | 3.5 hours | This course will look at how to read key financial statements including the balance sheet, income statement and the statement of cash flows. |
| Leadership Courses | ||
| Course Title | PD Hours | Description |
| Achieve Dynamite Meetings | 3.5 hours | This course is about how to design an overall system of meetings that does what your organization needs it to, and how to make each meeting function optimally for those involved. |
| Add Coaching To Your Management Style | 3.5 hours | Create a less stressful environment for teams, to foster effective teamwork and to support change. |
| Give a Boost to Your Communication Style | 4.75 hours | This course helps you polish up the full range of face-to-face and remote communication skills that are so vital for working with others. |
| Harness Emotions to Be More Effective | 5.5 hours | This course offers real-world insights as well as practical ways to increase empathy skills organization-wide. |
| Improve Your Personal Effectiveness | 4.25 hours | Explore a 7-step training path that provides tried and tested solutions to help you to boost your performance. |
| Shift to Management 3.0 | 4.75 hours | Learn how to engage people, improve whole systems, and increase value for clients. |
| Succeed as a First Time Manager | 5.5 hours | This practical course will give you all the tools you need to prepare for your new role and successfully manage your team. |
| Unlock Your Creative Potential Now | 4.5 hours | This course will help you unlock your creative potential at work. It is designed to help you lose your inhibitions and overcome obstacles to creativity, including bad habits and limiting beliefs. |
| Tax Courses | ||
| Course Title | PD Hours | Description |
| Corporate Tax: Purchase and Sale of a Business | 7 hours |
This course offers practitioners, business owners, and other tax professionals relevant technical and practical knowledge of important income tax considerations for when it is time to buy, sell, or undertake an intergenerational transfer of a private Canadian business. |
| Corporate Tax: Shutting Down the Corporation | 3.75 hours |
This course will focus on the many tax issues that arise, from a compliance and planning perspective, when shutting down a corporation. It will focus exclusively on private companies. |
| Income Tax Foundations | 4 hours | This course covers the foundations of income taxation in Canada, with a particular focus on application in Ontario from a provincial perspective. |
| Income Tax: Principal Residences | 3.5 hours |
This course examines the requirements for a property to undergo classification as a principal residence as well as the concepts of ownership and bare trustees, the ordinarily inhabited requirement, and the placement of housing units on multiple or large properties. |
| RIP: Terminal Filing | 7 hours |
This course provides a detailed technical review of the numerous issues faced when preparing terminal or year-of-death filings. |
| Ethics Courses | ||
| Course Title | PD Hours | Description |
| ASNFPOs: Ethical Decision Making (2024 Update) | 4 hours | This course helps participants to develop skills for making ethical decisions when deciding on accounting policies for measurement, presentation and disclosure using ASNFPO standards and ASPE standards where applicable for NFPOs. |
| ASPE: Ethical Decision Making (2024 Update) | 4 hours | This course will provide participants with an opportunity to consider factors that may influence their personal ethical decision making in developing and selecting accounting policies and applying professional judgment. |
| Create an Ethical Workplace | 3.5 hours | This course will walk you through what "ethics" really means, and how to build it into your organization, your people, your managers, and your day-to-day work life. |
| IFRS: Ethical Decision Making (2024 Update) | 4 hours | This course will provide participants with an opportunity to consider factors that may influence their personal ethical decision making in developing and selecting accounting policies and applying professional judgment. |
| Excel Courses | ||
| Course Title | PD Hours | Description |
| Creating Dynamic Models and Visualizations in Excel | 1 hour | This course will show participants how to use the OFFSET function in Excel to create flexible and dynamic models and visualizations. |
| Microsoft Excel 2016: Basic | 4 hours | Through interactive tutorials and simulation-based exercises you will learn how to create functional and dynamic spreadsheets to store, organize and manipulate data. |
| Microsoft Excel 2016: Intermediate | 4 hours | In this course you will learn how to take your financial and data analysis to a deeper level through interactive tutorials and simulation-based exercises. |
| Microsoft Excel 2016: Advanced | 4 hours | Learn advanced formatting and formulas, and how to analyze data. |
| Microsoft Excel 2019: Basic | 4 hours | This basic excel course will explore 3D images, chart improvements and co-authoring capabilities for sharing workbooks. |
| Microsoft Excel 2019: Intermediate | 4 hours | This intermediate excel course will explore the enhancements for 2019 includling six new or improved functions, new form capabilities and the ability to create automated workflows. |
| Microsoft Excel 2019: Advanced | 4 hours | This advanced excel course will cover the improved Power Query tool, the use of JavaScript to build custom functions and the ability to personalize the default PivotTable template. |
| Microsoft Excel 2021: Basic | 4 hours | Learn the Excel 2021 basics: Create and format professional-looking spreadsheets; calculate totals, build simple formulas; and more. |
| Microsoft Excel 2021: Intermediate | 5 hours | Learn how to create, edit, and format professional-looking charts so you can present complex data in a way that is meaningful to your audience. |
| Microsoft Excel 2021: Advanced | 5 hours | Learn how to create PivotTables, modify their structure and formatting, use timelines, and group values. Once you’ve mastered PivotTables, you’ll discover there are a variety of ways you can use them to add value to your projects. |
| Predictive Analytics Using Excel | 1 hour | This one-hour course will show you how to use Excel to generate comprehensive statistical analysis and create predictive analytics for causal analysis, forecasting an effect, and trend forecasting. |
Who Will Benefit
This bundle will provide CPAs with a diverse learning experience. Select courses covering technology, accounting, tax, finance, leadership, ethics and excel. Some roles that would benefit include: Accountants, Senior Accountants, Financial Analysts, Finance Managers, Controllers, Finance Directors and Tax Advisors.
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Disclaimer
Most of CPA Ontario's 450+ on-demand courses are compatible with the mobile app. Unfortunately, with this on demand bundle, not all courses will be compatible. For the best learning experience, we suggest you use your computer.
How to Access this Bundle
NOTE: Following your purchase you'll receive an email explaining how you can purchase 5 courses from your selected Build Your Bundle.
This bundle contains on demand courses. These courses are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Once registered for the courses, you can access the material at any time. However, you will only have access to the course for 90 days after REGISTRATION. It is recommended that you select one course at a time to ensure you have sufficient time to view the content. All courses must be selected by December 31, 2024.
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 at least 15 minutes after registration for the course to appear on your BlackBoard page.
Registration, cancellation, withdrawal and all other CPA Ontario PD Seminar policies can be found here.