Mastering Your First Inventory Count: Comprehensive Training for Junior Staff Members

This course is designed to prepare junior staff members for their first inventory count by providing a clear, step-by-step overview of the process. Through interactive scenarios, you'll learn why inventory counts are essential to the audit process, how to properly plan for them, and what to expect during the count itself. The course emphasizes best practices for preparation and communication, ensuring you feel confident and capable on-site.
You'll also explore how to handle common issues that may arise, understand the significance of cut-off procedures, and learn how to document findings effectively. By the end of the course, you'll be able to form appropriate conclusions and contribute to audit quality in a meaningful way. This practical training is led by Jennifer McCann, CPA, CA.

Educators
These individuals blend their diverse talents to create the kind of professional development experience that focuses on the right issues, accelerates knowledge transfer, turns understanding into practical actions and delivers sustained performance improvement. This team shares a common passion for creating the kind of learning environment that enables relevance, timeliness and the kind of application that leads to meaningful and lasting value.
This portal is provided as a training and development resource for City of Markham employees. Every course is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, is quantifiable in hours, and is verifiable — you receive a documented certificate of completion for every course you finish, stored on LearnFormula indefinitely.
If you hold a professional designation (for example in engineering, accounting, human resources, or law), courses may be counted as professionally relevant, verifiable learning activities toward your continuing professional development. Individual practitioners are responsible for confirming that an activity meets the requirements of their professional body. For questions about the City of Markham's training and development policies, please speak with your people leader or Human Resources.