General Resources

Career kits

Each fall, the ICAA distributes CA career kits to Alberta high school and post-secondary institutions. Each career kit contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions along with information on the Pre-requisites for the CA Program. To receive a CA career kit, contact careerinfo@icaa.ab.ca. 

CApitalize

CApitalize, launched in September 2009, is the new career information magazine produced by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta. The publication, which is distributed to more than 3,500 readers, introduces students to the CA profession, as well as addresses broader career-related topics and issues. Click here for the current issue of CApitalize, or to see an archive of past issues of Spotlight U.

English Language Courses for Accounting Students and Accounting Professionals

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta offers two English language education courses specifically designed for accounting students and accounting professionals whose first language is not English. For more information click on the courses below: 

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Expanding Your Communication Skills in the Canadian Business Culture (Speaking)

Expanding Your Communication Skills in the Canadian Business Culture (Speaking) is a seminar series designed for CA students, other accounting students and accountants who first language is not English. This seminar provides ample opportunities for students to practice speaking English in a positive environment while learning the basics of Canadian business culture.

This seminar series has eight sessions, which will run for three hours every Tuesday evening between May 8 and June 26. It will be offered at University of Lethbridge facilities in Calgary and Edmonton.

Seminar content for this seminar was developed specifically for people in accounting by Language Education for Accounting Professionals (LEAP), a firm specializing in language training for accounting professionals.

Seminar Outline

• Navigate Conversations - Covers cultural nuances of English conversation from making introductions to signalling closure.
• Simplify Information - Provides effective strategies for explaining information at a level that matches your audience’s accounting knowledge.
• Request Information - Examines methods of making requests in an appropriate manner given various, challenging contexts.
• Build Rapport - Tackles soft skill strategies essential in building friendly, productive work relationships with clients and coworkers.
• Give Direction - Introduces effective techniques for giving clear, tactful direction appropriate for varying types of formality.
• Handle Deficiencies - Offers ways to both point out deficiencies and to acknowledge in a professional way when your own deficiencies are pointed out.
• Speak Persuasively - Gives powerful confidence-building speaking strategies that will increase the speaker’s credibility with their audience.
• Navigate Group Meetings - Participants are guided through the oft-times confusing world of group meetings and examines ways to be an active participant.
• Navigate Conversations - Covers cultural nuances of English conversation from making introductions to signalling closure.

Pre-requisite

To enroll in this seminar, its recommended that registrants have achieved a score of 6.0 or higher on the International English Language Testing System; OR achieved a score of at least 550 on the paper-based test and a TWE (Test of written English) score of at least 4.0 on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL); OR demonstrated an equivalent level of language competency.

Online registration for the course is not yet open, but for more information—or to place your name on the list of interested students—please contact Daniel Neville at (780) 409-2560 or 1-800-232-9406, or email him at d.neville@icaa.ab.ca. To receive automatic updates about this offering, please email m.education@icaa.ab.ca.

Expanding Your Communication Skills in the Canadian Business Culture (Writing)--Begins Fall 2012

The CA Training Office Advantage

Find out the latest information on practical experience requirements. The CA Training Office website provides valuable resources and publications including the CA Student Booklet, CA Practical Experience Requirements (PER), and UFE Candidates' Competency Map. You can also download an interactive version of the Record of Qualifying Experience.

www.catrainingoffice.ca

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