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7:30am Registration 8:00 am Breakfast Seminar: Get the Most Power From Your Brain - Eileen Pease We each have a fantastic brain, but many of us do not understand how it works. Most of us inadvertently overload or block our short term memory, cause chemical imbalances or literally lose brain power from habits we have had for year. Learn how to appreciate and develop the incredible power in your mind and nervous system. Discover how to work more effectively with your powerful brain. Improve your reading, writing and listening skills. Bring your brain in for a tune-up. This workshop will help you: - Develop and polish your thinking skills
- Enhance your communication and interpersonal effectiveness
- Reduce your stress, worry and anxiety while remaining the professional that you are
You will learn to:
- Enjoy your intuitive and kinesthetic right brain while getting full value from your logical, sequential left brain
- Understand the role of perception
- Nurture those circuits you want to grow in your amazingly adaptable, flexible brain
- Consciously prune back those circuits you prefer to live without
- Develop the five conditions for Happiness at Work
- Understand how the brain remembers – Use four steps to a dependable memory
- Improve your ability to get to sleep and stay asleep
- Turn anxiety into productive planning
- Use an effective listening and paraphrasing technique to connect and truly understand
- Practice several group and individual creative thinking tools and techniques
- Spring the mental traps that get you stuck sometimes
- Grow younger, live longer – 10 steps to keep your brain healthy
Who will benefit:
Anyone who works with a variety of people in different situations. People who want to enhance their interpersonal skills and enjoy their full potential.
9am – 12pm Ethics for Accountants in Public Practice – Bob Forsyth This half day seminar will focus on practical aspects of ethics in accounting for public practitioners. The seminar leader has been a member of a CGA provincial Discipline Committee, and currently acts as an investigator concerning discipline matters. His interests in this area include the theoretical, the applications to his own practice, and the issues related to those accused of unethical behaviour. Who should attend? This seminar is developed to help CGAs, students and colleagues in public practice focus their attention on the real life ethical issues facing them on a regular basis. As our professional lives evolve, and as we see business methods changing, we have to sharpen our sense of “what’s right and what’s the right way to do it”. Ethics must be in the foreground, and we must have a framework to use, rather than just rules to remember. Topics include: - What use are Ethics?
- Who is / should be protected by a Code of Ethics?
- Review of the CGA Code of Ethics
- Review of other professions
- Experiences of a CGA Discipline Investigator
- A survey of problems encountered by accountants
- What to do if Ethical Principles conflict with each other
- How to recognize and prevent problems
9am – 5pm IFRS Practical Applications – Glen Schmidt, FCGA This daylong seminar will focus on three areas of interest to preparers and users of IFRS financial statements. There are significant differences between the new international financial reporting standards (IFRS) and Canada’s current handbook sections 3061, property plant and equipment and 3063, impairment of long lived assets. The principal issues in accounting for property, plant and equipment are the recognition of the assets, the determination of their carrying amounts and the depreciation charges and impairment losses to be recognized in relation to them. The IFRS have more options as to how the items are handled with possibly significant differing effects on both the balance sheet and the income statements. Depending on the options taken by preparers, there may be marked differences in financial ratios and their interpretation. This portion of the seminar will focus on liquidity, leverage, coverage and profitability ratio effects. Who should attend? CGA’s involved with the preparation of financial statements under the new Part I of the handbook as well as those wishing to stay current on their understanding of revenue recognition, property, plant (PPE) and equipment and financial ratios. How You Will Benefit: - Become familiar with many of the key GAAP similarities and differences for revenue recognition and matched items under the IFRS
- Become familiar with the options of reporting PPE
- Become aware of the impact of financial ratios for companies using IFRS
What You Will Learn: - An overview of the new standards
- Revenue recognition issues
- The journal entries, balance sheet and income statement effects
- Disclosure requirements
- Financial ratios under the IFRS
12:30 Luncheon: Opportunities Available to Small Businesses - Health Care and Retirement
Kevin Tomlinson
Concerns over health care (coverage and the rising cost) and planning for retirement are common. In the past, small businesses have had limited access to potentially costly products. But not today! Many advantages associated with "big" businesses are now available to small business owners, their families and their employees. We'll discuss some of these new opportunities including: - Health Plans for business owners and their families - the pitfalls of Association coverage - Group RSP's are just for big firms anymore - Guaranteed Income Products This is information you will be able to share with your business owner clients. And at the same time increase your professional value. 1:15 – 5pm Ethics for CGAs in Industry and Business - Bob Forsyth This half day seminar will focus on aspects of ethics in accounting for CGAs in industry, government and NGOs. The seminar leader has been a member of a CGA provincial Discipline Committee and is interested in both the theoretical and the real life application of ethics in the life of an accountant. Who should attend? This seminar is developed to help CGAs, students and colleagues who are not in public practice focus their attention on the real life ethical issues facing them on a regular basis. Ethics must be in the foreground, and we must have a framework to use, rather than just rules to remember. How can we deal with bosses or organizations that want to do what is right for them, rather than what is right. Topics include - What use are Ethics?
- Who is / should be protected by a Code of Ethics?
- Review of the CGA Code of Ethics
- A survey of problems encountered by accountants
- What to do if Ethical Principles conflict with each other
- What to do if your boss/Board/co-workers demand unethical behaviour
- How to recognize and prevent problems
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