CPA (Ontario) for Internationally Qualified Accountants

[abdul rehman qureshi]

you need to have ACCA membership inorder to apply for CPA-CGA membership. However, I think you still can apply for paper to paper exemptions for CPA.

best of luck.

ok... Thanx bro...

 

[ali_aff]

Steps for my registration process;
1) Two forms to fill, sign and send ("International Candidate Application Form" and "Practical Experience Certificate for Internationally Trained Candidate")
2) "International Candidate Application Form" requires credit card information
3) "Practical Experience Certificate for Internationally Trained Candidate" requires your manager's signature and stamp or stamp from Notary in case of missing manager
4) On approval, (me under student path) Capstone 1 & 2 to complete to qualify for "Common Final Examination"
5) Study resources will be provided via online access (Design to Learn-D2L) on CPA website, after registration
6) Completion of Capstone 1 & 2, requires in-person study group which held only in Canada
7) Minimum of 3 years of eligible practical experience is required to avoid for practical training in Canada (refer Practical experience form for definition of eligible experience)
8) Updated resume and "Letter of Good standing" from eligible institute, ICAP in my case, are also mandatory requirements.

Admission Coordinator at CPA-Ontario blun@cpaontario.ca

 

[imran364]

i have M.com (finance) degree and working a accountant in UAE from 8 years. My PR application is under process under spouse category.
i am planning to get some further degree in Accounting so that i can get some reasonable job in Canadian Market.
i heard about CPA & CGA . Please advise what type of course i can do online during my stay in UAE .

 

[May2010applicant]

Your best option would be to complete CPA (USA) while you are staying in UAE. As long as you complete it before your initial landing in Canada, you can get Canadian CA through reciprocity exam.

i have M.com (finance) degree and working a accountant in UAE from 8 years. My PR application is under process under spouse category.
i am planning to get some further degree in Accounting so that i can get some reasonable job in Canadian Market.
i heard about CPA & CGA . Please advise what type of course i can do online during my stay in UAE .

 

[mf1987]

Hi Member,

your guidance is required, i have done M.Phil, MBA, & BBA in finance. and having the experience of more then 5 year from Pakistan . presently i am waiting for my Visa under spousal application.

i am thinking to go for CPA, could any one of you please guide me on this.

thanks

 

[mustafa001]

Dear All

I was completed PREP which is not difficult for the accounting and finance graduate . we will start PEP in Jan,28.2017 which is six courses - core 1- core 2- and two elective courses from taxes ,finance and Audit . to be eligible for practice accountant you should choose the audit 3- capstone 1 and 2

all the courses mentioned above are not finance by OSAB or any financial institutions and fees vary from 700 CAD per course in PREP and 1520 CAN per courses in PEP so CPA Canada is very expensive compared with USA CPA or ACCA and takes long of time normally not less than 3 years

Mohamed Mustafa

 

[Vigilant]

Dear All

I was completed PREP which is not difficult for the accounting and finance graduate . we will start PEP in Jan,28.2017 which is six courses - core 1- core 2- and two elective courses from taxes ,finance and Audit . to be eligible for practice accountant you should choose the audit 3- capstone 1 and 2

all the courses mentioned above are not finance by OSAB or any financial institutions and fees vary from 700 CAD per course in PREP and 1520 CAN per courses in PEP so CPA Canada is very expensive compared with USA CPA or ACCA and takes long of time normally not less than 3 years

Mohamed Mustafa

Hi Mustfa,

I shall also start Capstone 1 in February 2017. Are you going for capstone or for elective modules?

 

[abo0286]

How the job opportunities like after completing CPA PEP? Is there too much competition?

 

[Vigilant]

How the job opportunities like after completing CPA PEP? Is there too much competition?

Hi,

Seems so. But mostly it depend on your luck and the contacts/references inside Canada..

 

[Rawee]

Looks like it is very difficult for accountants to start in Canada unlike IT guys

 

[mubeenirfan]

A question for CAs/Finance people here: Has anyone applied to CPA Canada (whichever province) based on ICAEW membership which has been gained through Pathways program. I am an ICAP member and have obtained ICAEW recently through ICAEW's Pathways Examination.

 

[janz]

Steps for my registration process;
1) Two forms to fill, sign and send ("International Candidate Application Form" and "Practical Experience Certificate for Internationally Trained Candidate")
2) "International Candidate Application Form" requires credit card information
3) "Practical Experience Certificate for Internationally Trained Candidate" requires your manager's signature and stamp or stamp from Notary in case of missing manager
4) On approval, (me under student path) Capstone 1 & 2 to complete to qualify for "Common Final Examination"
5) Study resources will be provided via online access (Design to Learn-D2L) on CPA website, after registration
6) Completion of Capstone 1 & 2, requires in-person study group which held only in Canada
7) Minimum of 3 years of eligible practical experience is required to avoid for practical training in Canada (refer Practical experience form for definition of eligible experience)
8) Updated resume and "Letter of Good standing" from eligible institute, ICAP in my case, are also mandatory requirements.

Admission Coordinator at CPA-Ontario blun@cpaontario.ca

Hi. I did steps 1,2,3 but no response yet. So how many months will take them to assess.

 

[janz]

Hi,
In response to your questions:
1. Since the last offering of the CKE and SOA exams have passed we are no longer accepting request for exemptions from the CKE and SOA. You may submit the completed Practical Experience Certificate for Internationally Trained Candidates at anytime. An assessment will be done when you send in the Practical Experience Certificate.
2. Approved courses can be found at the following link: http://www.cpaontario.ca/Admissions/QualificationProcess/ScheduleofUniversityCoursesforInstituteCredit/1014page15943.pdf
3. Please confirm with the university as to what the course entails.
4. As detailed on the Practical Experience Certificate for Internationally Trained Candidates page 10. The third party verifier must review and sign the Experience Certificate and must meet the following criteria:
E. Third party verification
Third-party verification is required of the previous experience position(s) held, the description of the place of employment or practice
and the specific responsibilities carried out or functions performed. Such verification must be made directly on this form in the place
indicated below.
The third party verifier must be a person to whom the applicant directly reported or was otherwise directly accountable in the
applicant’s carrying out of his or her responsibilities or in the performance of his or her job functions described on this certification
form. If the person to whom the applicant directly reported or was directly accountable is no longer available to provide the verification,
such verification may be made by:
• a person who is currently an appropriately senior manager, executive, officer, partner or director of the place of employment,
OR
• a person who is in a management, executive or oversight role with the professional services practice,
AND
• has personal knowledge of the applicant’s having held the position(s)reported by the applicant on this certification form and the
applicant’s having held the responsibilities carried out or performed the functions indicated for such position(s),or
• has access to the applicable records or documentation of the place of employment or practice and has verified following review
or inspection of such records that the applicant held the position(s) reported on this certification form and carried out the
responsibilities or performed the functions reported on this certification form.

5. I believe those who don't complete the legacy program requirements ie. CKE, SOA, UFE will need to complete a transitional bridging program and enter the challenge path in the CPA Certification Program. However communication confirming requirements for admission to membership will be sent.
http://www.cpaontario.ca/Students/CPAcertification/PEP/1014page17397.pdf


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Hello. When did you receive the result of the assessment. I submitted mine last year but still no progress.

 

[Ahsan576]

Hi. I submitted my application for CPA through MRA with ACCA via CPA Ontario portal on 7th Dec'18. CPA Ontario recently have made a portal on Nov'18 but they are facing a issue in their portal i.e. the payment link is not integrated with the portal making it impossible for me to execute payment. I am getting just a little frustrated now because review of my application has not started due to their internal issues and their review process takes another 2-3 months after they payment is done from my side.

Can anyone prescribe the timeline it might take to sort out their issues in the portal because apparently they are not giving any timeline. They just stated 2-3 weeks back that their IT and Finance team are working on it and yesterday again received same reply from them.

 

[Xanyar]

Hello to you guys. I need some help. I am an IFAC member. As you know IFAC members get exemption for perquisite courses in CPA Canada. I have had my academic credentials evaluated by WES as Master's degree. How can i get my IFAC membership evaluated too? I want to use the score for my express entry profile. I mean there should be a way in doing this. If CPA Canada gives such an exemption for its CPA course then it must have credit for Canada immigration office as well.