About CPABC

About Us

The Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia (CPABC) is the training, governing, and regulatory body for over 40,000 CPA members and 6,000 CPA candidates.

CPABC carries out its primary mission to protect the public by enforcing the highest professional and ethical standards and contributing to the advancement of public policy.

CPAs are on the front lines of business in BC, and they see firsthand the issues that are affecting investment and the economy. Our members advise multinational corporations, small businesses, not-for-profits, government agencies, and countless individuals. They are highly regarded for their leadership in the field of public accounting, their strategic insight in the boardrooms of top corporations, and their guidance in government and public sector accounting.

Each provincial CPA body is a member organization of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada), which represents more than 217,000 professional accountants across the country and around the world.

Vision

The Canadian CPA is the pre-eminent, globally respected business and accounting designation.

Strategic Pillars

CPABC operates under the CPABC Act, with a legislated mandate to regulate and educate the CPA profession in British Columbia to protect the public.  CPABC uses a rolling 3-year strategic plan that is refreshed annually, to ensure the organization remains on course to deliver on the CPABC vision, and incorporates the following five strategic pillars under the over-arching mandate:

CPABC 5 Strategic Pillars

Regulate: CPABC will regulate members and students to uphold professional standards.

Deliver: CPABC will deliver sufficient and appropriately skilled CPAs to meet market demand.

Support: CPABC will support the needs of its members and students.

Lead: CPABC will lead and will foster member leadership on matters related to business and accounting.

Account: CPABC will discharge its mandate in a responsible, transparent and proactive manner.