So many benefits
Your participation in supervising the
student’s professional experience and
verifying it will benefit the student,
you and your organization.
The student will benefit from your
direction and feedback. You’ll enjoy
the personal satisfaction of guiding
the student and seeing his or her
growth. Your organization will benefit
from your positive example as
someone who is graciously supporting
the next generation of accounting
business leaders. And you’ll be
building your organization’s reputation
as an employer of choice.
Assuming the responsibility of
supervising a CGA student is an ideal
way to give back in a way that best
suits your schedule. Beyond a few
regular meetings with the student, you
can decide how much time to give.
Giving a little.
Getting a lot.
For details see:
cga.org/canada/experience
CGA British Columbia
cga-bc.org
CGA Northwest Territories/Nunavut
cga-nwt-nu.org
CGA Saskatchewan
cga-saskatchewan.org
CGA Ontario
cga-ontario.org
CGA New Brunswick
cga-nb.org
CGA Prince Edward Island
cga-pei.org
CGA Yukon
cga-bc.org
CGA Alberta
cga-alberta.org
CGA Manitoba
cga-manitoba.org
CGA Nova Scotia
cga-ns.org
CGA Newfoundland and Labrador
cganl.org
INTERNATIONAL
cga.org/canada
Summer 2011
Copyright 2011 by the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada.
By being a student’s supervisor, you’ll be supporting
a future Certified General Accountant and strengthening
the accounting profession.
Remember when you were
trying to get some valuable
professional experience?
And when you did, how much
it meant to you?
Now, you’ll be doing the
same for someone else by
being a supervisor with
PERC – Professional Experience
Required for Certification.
Supervisor’s role
Student’s responsibility
As a supervisor, your role is responsive and
supportive. You will help the student by:
It is the student’s responsibility to:
•
lead the student-supervisor relationship by
establishing and maintaining contact with
you and detailing the goals and objectives
throughout the working relationship;
periodically reviewing the progress of the
work experience, providing feedback and
recommending adjustments as necessary; and
•
plan and document the experience; and
•
lead the relationship with the verifier.
meeting with the student at least once a year.
This can occur during the student’s regularly
scheduled performance evaluation.
Supporting the next generation of accounting
business leaders
•
together, finding ways for him or her to acquire
and demonstrate the required CGA
competencies;
•
•
Supervisor as verifier
If you are a qualified professional accountant,
you can also act as verifier. As verifier, your role
is to confirm that the experience requirements
for an entry-level CGA have been met. This
sign-off is submitted online.
If you are not a designated accountant, you can
assist the student in finding a designated
accountant – either within the organization or
externally – who can act as verifier.
Professional experience is essential for
qualification. It allows students to apply the
knowledge and skills they’re acquiring
at the advanced and professional levels of
the CGA program. And it enables them to
develop the necessary qualities, attitudes
and behaviours required to earn the CGA
designation. You are supporting that
critically important experience by being a
student’s supervisor!