A student was suspended as a candidate in the CPA Professional Education Program (the “CPA PEP”) by the CPA Western School of Business (“CPAWSB”) as a result of plagiarism that they engaged in as a candidate in the CPA PEP. This suspension was pending the outcome of an investigation into their conduct by the Organization of Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia (“CPABC”).
In order to resolve a disciplinary proceeding before a Panel of CPABC’s Disciplinary Committee concerning the professional misconduct alleged against them, they agreed to the voluntary suspension of their enrollment as a student of CPABC for a period of six months, commencing on April 2, 2020 (thereby resulting in a suspension from the CPA PEP for a period of 12 months).
They admitted to breaching several provisions of the CPABC Code of Professional Conduct, including stealing CPA solution documents from another CPA student, and plagiarizing these documents and submitting them as their own work product in a module of the CPA PEP.
During the six-month period of the suspension of their enrollment as a student of CPABC, they continued to be suspended as a candidate in the CPA PEP and ineligible to register for any modules in the CPA PEP or for the Common Final Examination.