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Why Become a CA
Why get the CA Advantage?
What does your career choice say about you? The CA designation is the standard for accounting excellence - the one businesses look for first. No other accounting credential carries the same weight. No other educational background commands the same respect. No other designation can open as many doors.
Chartered Accountants are leaders in business - respected professionals who are essential to the success of the country's foremost organizations. CAs create more than just financial statements. They are policy-makers, strategists, and advisors. As a CA, you'll provide the insight and direction companies need to stay on top.
Your career as a CA will take you far beyond numbers and balance sheets. Applying a range of analytical, investigative, and accounting skills, you may find yourself working directly with company presidents and CEOs. You'll have the opportunity to step into the world's most influential boardrooms, and have your voice heard.
As a CA, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore a wide range of career opportunities around the globe. You'll have the chance to work for private companies, not-for-profits, or multinational corporations. And you'll work towards your future, one shaped by the on-the-job experience and in-depth knowledge you'll gain as a Chartered Accountant.
Your CA designation will make a powerful statement about you. About the value of your abilities and ideas. About the exceptional standards to which you hold yourself. And about all that you stand to accomplish throughout your career.
Make a statement. Become a CA.
Quick Facts:
CAs offer more than superior financial expertise; they bring strategic thinking, business insight and leadership.
- In 2007, 63 per cent of the Globe and Mail's Report on Business magazine's Top 1000 Companies had at least one CA on the executive team.
- CAs are the only Canadian accounting professionals with reciprocity agreements with all leading accounting organizations in Australia, Belgium, England and Wales, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, and the United States.
- Those companies with CAs in the CFO position have the best return on capital and assets, according to an analysis of the 2005 Globe and Mail Report on Business magazine's annual listing of the Top 1000 Companies. For companies with a CA in the CFO position, the average return on capital over the past five years was 5.4% compared to -0.16% for companies that did not have a CA in the CFO position. Return on assets over the same five-year period was 4.6% for companies with a CA in the CFO position versus 0.8% for those that did not.
- Approximately one in three CAs choose to work in industry, where they bring their insight and expertise directly to business and non-profit organizations as CEOs, CFOs, key financial strategists, and top-flight executives.
- More than 125 years ago, Chartered Accountants were the first professional accounting body to be recognized in Canada. They have been leading the way ever since.
- The Uniform Evaluation (UFE) is widely recognized as one of the most rigorous professional examinations in the world.
- To maintain the privilege of using the designation, CAs are required to keep up their knowledge and skills through career-long professional development.
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