Chartered Professional Accountant

Not to be confused with Certified Practising Accountant or Certified Public Accountant.

Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA; French: comptable professionnel agréé) is the professional designation which united the three Canadian accounting designations that previously existed:

CPA Canada is the national organization that represents the profession, and the CPA designation has been in use by members of all constituent accounting bodies in the provinces, territories and Bermuda since 2014.[2][3] The legislative process for implementing the new designation began in Quebec in May 2012, and was completed in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in January 2019.

  1. ^ CPA Canada
  2. ^ "It's official! 190,000 PROS, one designation". www.cpacanada.ca. Archived from the original on 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  3. ^ McFARLAND, JANET (2014-06-23). "Canadian accountants merge under CPA designation". Retrieved 2017-06-04.