Customize Your December Learning Plan



 
Make the most of your December learning goals with the CPA Manitoba Professional Development Program. Choose from over 30 live virtual options in December or hundreds of on-demand seminars.

Plan Ahead for Year-End Learning
The deadline for registering for on-demand seminars you wish to complete by the end of 2023 is December 20, unless the seminar has the On-Demand Instant Access option. Orders received after December 20 will be fulfilled the first week of January. 

On-Demand Instant Access
When you register for an on-demand seminar, the login credentials and password are typically sent to you within two business days. Now, select seminars will provide instant access to the login credentials and password by email just after you register. Check the On-Demand Instant Access option box on the PD Seminars search page to see all of the seminars available with this option.

 


Featured December Seminars
Over 30 live virtual options are available in December. Here are some to consider:
 

Tax Sessions

 
Accounting Sessions

  • December 6 – Advanced Budgeting Techniques – The workshop blends theory with interactive exercises and real-world case studies, enhancing your understanding of advanced budgeting principles. Designed for finance professionals and budgeting managers, this course improves your skills and equips you to contribute effectively to organizational success.
  • December 14 – Quality Management - Application for Assurance Providers – This professional development course provides participants with an overview of the requirements of the newly issued Canadian Standard for Quality Management (CSQM1 and CSQM2) and related amendments to Canadian Auditing Standards (CAS 220) and its impact on the quality control processes for assurance practitioners.  The course will build on your knowledge and implementation of the current requirements under the Canadian Standards for Quality Control (CSQC1) and highlight differences.
  • December 18 – Quality Management - Overview for Non-Assurance Providers – This professional development course provides participants with an overview of the requirements of the newly issued Canadian Standard for Quality Management (CSQM1 and CSQM2) and its impact on the quality control processes for non-assurance practitioners.

 
Ethics Sessions

  • December 8 – Professional Ethics for Assurance Profession – In this webinar, you will use case studies to apply specific areas of the CPA code of professional conduct (“code”) and the Assurance handbook to examine our ethical responsibilities and challenges within our profession.
  • December 11 – Ethics - Where the Rubber Hits the Road – This course is different from most ethics courses in its practicality and examples and coverage, taught by an active CFO who has faced lots of real-life ethics issues and many realistic cases are discussed. It works through difficult areas, ethical principles, key ethics rules and then a large number of practical case situations.
  • December 15 – Professional Ethics and Transformative Technologies – Transformative technologies are defined as tech that can facilitate mental health, emotional wellbeing, and enhanced human thriving. These have also been less optimistically labelled as a disruptive technology. This webinar will introduce these transformative technologies and examine their ethical implications.
  • December 20 – Professional Ethics: A FTX Story – The fraud and failure of FTX is a story of unethical leadership, inadequate governance and organizational culture with low psychological safety. In this webinar, we will explore the FTX fraud and critical stakeholders using IESBA's (International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants) five fundamental principles of ethics as the framework for our investigation.

 
Risk Management Sessions

  • December 7 – Risk Management Primer for your Business – Whether you are running an accounting firm or working within a larger organization everyone has a collective role when it comes to risk, which includes identification and oversight of relevant risks affecting the organization. Accountants are often at the forefront of developing risk management plans which identify and prioritize risks as well as implement risk control strategies.
  • December 8 & 11 – Fraud Risk Management – Effective fraud risk management requires an integrated approach. Too often, businesses implement some helpful practices, but overlook other principles that ensure the full spectrum of their unique risks is addressed. This seminar uses a holistic approach that brings together key principles and practices using the 2016 updated COSO fraud risk management framework.
  • December 14 & 15 – Managing Risks in Small Organizations – Fundamentals – This seminar provides participants with the fundamentals of how to best manage risks in small and medium sized organizations.  Risk Management methodologies and best practices will be introduced along with practical and real-life examples.  Opportunities will be provided for the participants to apply the learnings at different junctures to their individual organizations. Practical, strategically integrated risk management will greatly assist small and medium sized organizations to meet their objectives in times of increasingly complexity as well as meet their compliance and governance requirements.
     

Leadership & Skills Sessions

  • December 5 & 6 – Stress: Problem Solve to Develop your Resilience – Research shows that stress management is a vital contributor to enhancing work performance, reducing interpersonal friction, diminishing mood swings, and ultimately achieving an increased sense of personal control. The first step in coping with stress is to fully understand what it is all about. Then, armed with sound information and practical advice, you can begin to handle your challenges more comfortably.
  • December 11 – Unconscious or Implicit Bias – There are two categories of bias in studies today: conscious or explicit biases and unconscious or implicit biases. Unconscious bias is usually thought of as social stereotypes the typically focus on others that are not from the same conscious area. This session provides participants with a deeper understanding of these biases and how to overcome them for better working relationships.
  • December 15 – Recruiting & Interviewing High Performance People – A cornerstone of success for every organization is recruiting good people, and yet many organizations take a hap hazard, reactive approach to this vitally important activity. Participants will learn proven, practical recruiting and interviewing strategies and techniques that can be easily applied.