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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Fundamentals of Receipting for Canadian Registered Charities According to the CRA, 89% of registered charities that are audited by the CRA are not correctly issuing official donation receipts. This half-day seminar will examine the rules regarding the issuance of “official donation receipts” by Canadian registered charities. June 8, 1:30-5pm, Vancouver M&A Divestitures – Covering Your Bases This seminar will provide practical advice on how to prepare for a divestiture from an accounting and legal perspective, and will review the accounting and legal factors that need to be considered during various phases of a divestiture process. June 9, 9am-5pm, Vancouver Fundamentals of Management Consistently successful managers are those who create supportive work environments and motivate others to be their best selves. This interactive course will take an action-learning approach to help participants understand what is “best practice” in management and how to apply it in the workplace to achieve success. June 24, 9am-5pm, Vancouver Upstream Loans: Recent Developments This seminar will cover the income tax and GST/HST issues that arise as a result of transactions within a group of related, privately held corporations. Reorganization and restructuring issues will be covered, as will issues such as the sale of assets between group members. June 25, 7:30-9:30am, Vancouver IFRS: Revenue Recognition Standards (IFRS 15) This seminar will provide participants with an understanding of the new five-step revenue recognition framework under IFRS 15, including how to determine the amount of revenue to recognize. It will benefit supervisors, partners, financial analysts, and controllers responsible for revenue recognition and the accounting thereof. June 26, 9am-12:30pm, Vancouver Powerful Financial Analysis Does your role, or the roles of those you supervise, involve financial analysis? This seminar will cover the key facets of a financial analyst’s role within an accounting department, and will help analysts provide meaningful information to those around them. Topics to be covered include month-end, quarter-end, and year-end analyses; budget analysis; variance analysis; and overall financial statement analysis. July 6, 9am-5pm, Vancouver Excel Anywhere: Taking Excel to the Web With versions of Excel available for the PC, iPad, Android, and web browser, the program is truly becoming accessible everywhere. By the end of this seminar, participants will be able to create and upload a workbook into the Excel web client; edit the file from almost any device; collect data via a web form; and share the key parts of the file with others. July 9, 9am-5pm, Vancouver PD CONFERENCE DAYS For detailed information on sessions and speakers, please visit us online at pd.bccpa.ca/conferences. Members in Business & Industry PD Day June 16, 8:30am-5pm, Van Conv Ctr West Information Technology Conference June 23-24, 8:30am-4:30pm, Van Conv Ctr West Victoria PD Day June 25, 8:30am-5pm, Westin Bear Mountain Resort Work/Life Balance Conference July 23, 8:30am-5pm, Van Conv Ctr West Shades of Grey – ѡ