Equip Your Firm with Strategies to Thrive Amid Inflation, Climate Challenges, and Global Geopolitical Tensions.
Join us for the CPA Small Practitioners' Forum 2024 and gain critical insights into Alberta's economic landscape. This engaging session uses a unique chess-themed approach to explore economic disruptors, fiscal trends, and strategic moves to keep your firm thriving.
From understanding the impact of central bank policies to mitigating the effects of climate change and geopolitical tensions, this course equips you with practical knowledge to advise your clients confidently. Learn how economic indicators, government policies, and productivity challenges will shape Alberta's future, and prepare to make informed decisions in an unpredictable environment.
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The CPA Small Practitioners’ Forum was created to offer an inviting, semi-causal, and easygoing professional development weekend that provides substantial professional development value to small practitioners. All profit earned by the CPA Small Practitioners’ Forum is donated to the Alberta CPA Education Foundation, so you are helping young people in Canada get scholarships for university. All these courses are reviewed by the delegates at the Forum in Banff annually so we have a great lineup that is adjusted every year to keep things relevant to small practitioners. If you work at a public accounting firm in Canada with employees of 1-50 people, you are our target demographic and you should find this course useful.
Vice President and Chief Economist | ATB Financial
For more than 25 years, Todd has worked as an economist for organizations including the Bank of Canada and the Canada West Foundation. Most recently, he served over 15 years as the Chief Economist for ATB Financial. He is the author of four books. His latest, Spiders in COVID Space: Adapting during and after the pandemic, was released in March 2021. He serves on the boards of Calgary’s Glenbow Museum and the Alberta Ballet. He is also the host of a podcast titled The Future Of, which won a national award in 2021.
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