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AcSB

Medium and Small Practitioners Advisory Committee

Summary

The Medium and Small Practitioners Advisory Committee acts in an advisory capacity to the Accounting Standards Board (AcSB) and assists the AcSB in maintaining and improving accounting standards for private enterprises in Part II and accounting standards for not-for-profit organizations in Part III of the CPA Canada Handbook – Accounting.

Staff Contact(s)

Mark Squire, CPA, CA Principal, Accounting Standards Board

Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the Committee are to:

  • identify and advise the AcSB on:
  • new topics that should be added to the accounting standards for private enterprises and/or accounting standards for not-for-profit organizations; and
  • existing content of the standards that should be clarified, changed, or removed, consistent with the unique needs of private enterprises and/or not-for-profit organizations and their users;
  • suggest proposed changes to the standards for consideration by the AcSB, after the AcSB agrees to add to or change the standards; and
  • advise the AcSB on managing the accounting standards for private enterprises and accounting standards for not-for-profit organizations (for example research on private enterprise and not-for-profit organization issues, the timing of changes to standards, and the process of communications with interested and affected parties).

Meetings

The Committee holds as many meetings per year as is necessary to carry out its responsibilities. Meetings are not open to the public. A summary of discussions of each Committee meeting will be made available shortly after each meeting.

Members

The Committee consists of:

  • a Chair, who is appointed by the AcSB; and
  • other members familiar with Canadian accounting standards for private enterprises and not-for-profit organizations and the challenges that the application of those standards may create in Canadian financial reporting.

Members are appointed for an initial three-year term and are eligible for reappointment or extension at the discretion of the AcSB Chair.

Advisory Committee members are experts who reflect the broad diversity of practitioners at medium and small firms in Canada. 

Katharine Christopoulos

CPA, CA
AcSB
Toronto, ON
Chair

Amy Duncan

CPA, CGA
Dale Matheson Carr-Hilton LaBonte LLP
Surrey, BC
Member

Bridget Noonan

CPA, CA
Clearline CPA
Vancouver, BC
Member

Cathy Fortier

CPA auditrice
Groupe RDL Solutions Corporatives s.e.n.c.
Victoriaville, QC
Member

Cathy Gonçalves

CPA auditrice
CCMG Comptables professionnels agréés S.E.N.C.R.L
Laval, QC
Member

George Randhawa

CPA, CA
KSDM LLP Chartered Professional Accountants
Calgary, AB
Member

Ingrid McDonald

CPA, CA
Crowe BGK, S.E.N.C.R.L.
Montréal, QC
Member

Jessica Di Rito

CPA, CA
McGovern Hurley LLP
Toronto, ON
Member

Jordan Glazier

CPA, CA
Crowe Soberman LLP
Toronto, ON
Member

Joseph Truscott

CPA, CA, CMA
Joseph A. Truscott
Hamilton, ON
Member

Kyle Fic

CPA, CA
Lipton LLP
Toronto, ON
Member

Mohini Kumar

CPA, CA
KBH Chartered Professional Accountants
Edmonton, AB
Member

Paul Beauvais

CPA auditeur
Demers Beaulne, LLP
Montréal, QC
Member

Sara Kuehner

CPA, CA
Sara J. Kuehner, CPA
Dartmouth, NS
Member

Scott Holst

CPA, CA
Baker Tilly WM LLP
Vancouver, BC
Member

Shari Mann

CPA, CA
Strann Consulting and University of Waterloo
Burlington, ON
Member

Vani Balabaskaran

CPA, CGA
Hamilton, ON
Member