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CA Training Offices

Changes to the Experience Requirements for CA Qualification

The CA profession across Canada has expanded both what it recognizes as qualifying experience, and the kinds of organizations that can be recognized as CA Training Offices (CATOs):

  • CA firms can now seek approval to create training positions in taxation, business advisory services, and other areas in addition to CA positions in audit and assurance.
  • Approved corporations and government departments can now be recognized as CA Training Offices

The new requirements are published in the CA Practical Experience Requirements ("PER").

The changes apply only to the experience criteria of CA qualification; all other qualification standards and criteria remain unchanged.

  • There is no change to the high academic standards students must achieve to be considered for entry into the CA training program.
  • All CA students must write the UFE.
  • The audit, assurance and tax experience requirements, including the chargeable-hour requirements for CA students pursuing public accounting are also unchanged (2500 total chargeable hours, including 1250 assurance hours, 625 audit hours, and 100 tax hours); only CA firms and offices of the federal and provincial auditors general can be approved to offer CA training positions for public accounting.
  • The standards and requirements for recognition as a CA Training Office, which will expand to admit corporate and public sector employers, are equally rigorous with the same standards of ethics, work quality, and progressive experience.

For further information on the CA Training Office opportunities that exist, go to www.catrainingoffice.ca or contact:

Brenda McKenzie
Registrar
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta
Tel: 780.424.7391
Toll free: 1.800.232.9406
b.mckenzie@icaa.ab.ca 

CATO Connection Newsletter

CATO Connection is a bi-annual newsletter for all Alberta CA Training Offices (CATOs). To receive the newsletter, contact Carly Roemer at c.roemer@icaa.ab.ca or Natasha Constantin at n.constantin@icaa.ab.ca.