Member Recognition Award Recipients - 2016

We are on the brink of a major financial technology revolution. Your CPA is your ticket to successfully navigating future commerce. Use your knowledge and your skill set to show the world that you can make a big difference.

An accounting designation has provided me with a rewarding career and the opportunity to assist my firm’s clients in achieving their goals. It has also provided me with the ability to serve my community via board appointments.

I find standard setting work to be tremendously engaging. As a financial accountant, being able to influence the development of standards is a great privilege. But ultimately the reward is the opportunity to work closely with a group of talented and like-minded people towards a common goal.

When you are part of this profession, you get an instant support network and pool of mentors that help you along in your career. You also get an amazing education.

Being able to serve others is rewarding. It is always eye-opening and humbling to learn how much one does not know through working with different people. Through such learning and growing, I am able to share with more people and I am also privileged to make many friends along the way.

The more I contribute to community, the more I feel connected to my neighbors. I feel fortunate that in my day job I’m able to help charities and not-for-profit organizations – and in my spare time, I have the opportunity to help out in my community. I enjoy working with others to make a difference in our community and our world.

I give back to my community because my community gives a lot to me. I especially like to support organizations that support women and treat them as equals. My training in accounting and funds planning has proven to be very useful to the organizations with which I volunteer.

I believe the spirit of giving back is an integral part of living a happy and fulfilling life. I have been very fortunate in my life and career as a CPA so to be able to give back to my community is an opportunity to return some of life’s blessings that have been given to me.

To me, someone is successful if they are engaged in pursuits that give them joy and they are surrounded people who they respect and admire. Bot facets involve the ability to continue to learn and grow.

I’ve always said the CPA designation is a “golden handshake.” The skill set you receive through your education and training process is so portable to so many amazing career opportunities. I would, and do, recommend this profession to anyone.

Success is when you can share achievements with your family and friends. My secrets are a commitment to the cause, and good colleagues to work with.

The CPA designation is highly valued and the profession gives us the opportunity to experience such a broad slice of life. A Canadian CPA can travel and work in most places in the world. They can thrive in many different types of organizations. The education and experience can be applied to so many situations.

The secret to achieving success is to find a purpose in life where you can help others. Whether in my practice, through teaching, or with my family and friends, I get the most personal fulfilment when I can help someone else.

A career as a CPA in public practice provides an incredible platform to exercise a full range of disciplines, including accounting, business, finance, law, academics, technology, and management. I cannot imagine a more varied, exciting profession. Being at the forefront of the fourth industrial revolution will mean unprecedented change and opportunities for those starting their careers.

Peter is a recognized subject matter expert on First Nations taxation services and served as a tax partner and national leader of the aboriginal client services practice at KPMG. Throughout his career, he has been a lecturer, instructor, and panelist on matters of First Nations finance, including tax structures for land claims and developing business governance models.

I believe that success is us, individually and collectively, making a positive, progressive, and sustainable contribution to initiate change. We bring individual experiences and skills to emerging issues and organizations. Collectively, we blend our perspectives and values to develop, improve upon, and participate in, delivering change management.