Indigenous leaders help design new CPA program to address barriers to accounting profession
The program for Indigenous learners , a partnership between the Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Alberta (AFOA Alberta), the CPA Western School of Business and CPA Canada, aims to help remove systemic barriers for Indigenous learners and increase Indigenous representation in the accounting profession.
- The program for Indigenous learners , a partnership between the Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Alberta (AFOA Alberta), the CPA Western School of Business and CPA Canada, aims to help remove systemic barriers for Indigenous learners and increase Indigenous representation in the accounting profession.
- “The impact of Indigenous students seeing themselves in the accounting texts and material is so profound.
- For Maureen Moneta of the Metis Nation of Alberta, CPA and member of the CPA Alberta Board of Directors, the program is not about trying to help Indigenous people.
- Program partners and Indigenous subject matter experts are currently creating the next two courses to be delivered to Indigenous students in January of 2024: Introductory Managerial Accounting and Core 2.