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What is Continuing Professional Development (CPD)?

  • ·November 9, 2021
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the term used to describe the ongoing learning that CPAs engage in to broaden their knowledge base and keep up to date on trends and developments in the industry.
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Let’s Take a Bet on Ourselves: Why CPAs Should Believe in Their Future

  • ·October 23, 2020
I was pitching my company to a room of around 200 hugely successful entrepreneurs at U of T’s Creative Destruction Lab startup accelerator. Although I have no idea of the…
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Managing Your Personal Brand with Fatima Zaidi

  • ·August 31, 2020
Before you start reading this article, you should ask yourself the following question. When you google yourself, what comes up? Is it your unlocked Facebook page that is filled photos…
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The Invisible Gold Mine: Former RIM CEO Jim Balsillie on the Importance of IP Assets

  • ·April 20, 2020
Research In Motion (RIM) may be one of Canada’s greatest commercial success stories, but former CEO Jim Balsillie will tell you that the only wheel they re-invented was on a…
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8 things I learned developing a course for CPAs on IP; not being a CPA or IP expert…

  • ·November 11, 2019
Putting together a course on intellectual property for CPAs, being someone with very little IP knowledge, and definitely not a CPA, was no small feat, but I am definitely proud…
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Make CPAs Cool Again

  • ·October 31, 2019
By: Michael Kravshik, CPA, CA When people read our shirts (modelled by Jesse above), we get one of two responses: 1) CPAs HAVE ALWAYS been cool! 2) CPAs WERE NEVER…
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New Research Suggest SMB’s Truly Embracing Technology

  • ·October 31, 2019
At Luminari, innovation and CPAs are at the forefront of everything we do. As we have previously discussed, with the help of our friends over at CIBC, we created a…
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Small Business Owners’ need help; here’s what CPAs can do

  • ·October 8, 2019
On the heels of Luminari & CIBC’s new white-paper about the future of public accounting, we’re tackling other relevant research on small businesses in Canada, and where CPAs can add…
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CIBC and Luminari Present: The Future of Public Accounting White Paper

  • ·September 18, 2019
We brought together 35 of Canada’s top accounting firm-partners to provide them with a first look at CIBC SmartBanking for Business and host a discussion around future-proofing their practice, technology…
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Two Years Ago Jim Balsillie Rejected Me; Here’s the Story of How it Turned into a Collaboration

  • ·August 6, 2019
Two years ago I wrote about how I met Jim Balsillie for 30 Seconds, he rejected me, and I thought he was great. I had received the ‘slow no’ rejection…