Fellowship

Fellowship

Members are elected to fellowship (FCPA) by the CPABC Board to formally recognize their exceptional services to the profession, career achievements, and/or community contributions that have earned them distinction and brought honour to the profession. Such members have demonstrated meaningful involvement, remarkable contributions, and exceptional performance and have held significant leadership roles.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Is a member in good standing.
  • Not a recipient of equivalent legacy award(s).
  • Demonstrates significant achievements as outlined in the selection criteria.
  • Not unsuccessfully nominated three or more times in the past seven years.
  • The member’s fellowship status has not previously been revoked.

Resources To Support Your Nomination

Resources to support your nomination

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Selection Criteria

The selection criteria was developed by the CPA profession and is nationally harmonized. Nominators must highlight the candidate’s leadership and the exceptional nature of their performance in at least two of the following areas:

  • professional career;
  • volunteer involvement in the affairs of the accounting profession;
  • volunteer contribution to professional, community, or charitable organizations.

Candidates need not have made exceptional achievements in all three areas, but the nomination should demonstrate they’ve exhibited leadership and made a remarkable impact in more than one. It’s important to highlight that their achievements are well-known and have made them a recognized leader. Nominations should also clearly demonstrate that candidates identify themselves as CPAs and are recognized as such. In rare cases, if a candidate has made an exceptional contribution in just one field, the Member Recognition Committee will consider these nominations, however, the candidate's achievements must be widely recognized and make them a prominent leader in the field of activity selected.

Other: Nominators must be members of CPABC.

Tips To Support Your Nomination

  • Your nomination file needs to be prepared with care as it is used to evaluate the candidate. 
  • Key points must be highlighted in each section.
  • Information needs to be succinct while at the same time providing information and examples demonstrating the impact of contributions.
  • For articles, speaking engagements, etc. please provide links (if available) rather than entire articles or reports and/or extract pertinent pages. 
  • Assume the reader does not know the candidate nor the organization(s) they are involved with.

Section 3 – Professional career

Describe the candidate’s career path and their most remarkable achievements, including positions held and their roles and responsibilities. Highlight the way, period of time, and circumstances in which the candidate distinguished themselves. Discuss the candidate's vision, efforts, and results. The information you include here should make it possible to measure the candidate’s real impact in of their career in the various positions they held.

Section 4 – Volunteer involvement in the affairs of the accounting profession

Outline the candidate’s volunteer involvement in the affairs of the accounting profession, including to CPABC or in other ways that have added substantive value to, or advanced, the profession.  Note: If the candidate teaches a course (PD or for CPAWSB), this should not be counted as volunteer involvement, but rather mentioned in the career section (Section 3).

For each of the most remarkable achievements you highlight, specify the time in which the candidate was involved, committees or task forces they served on, and provide details on their remarkable achievements, such as: duration of service; evolution of the candidate's roles; impacts of the candidate's initiatives (or leadership) on the accounting profession; and results achieved (or how their contribution positively affected or advanced the profession).

Section 5 – Volunteer contribution to professional, community, or charitable organizations

Describe the candidate’s most important volunteer contributions to professional, community, or charitable organizations, their roles and responsibilities, and the real impact of these activities. Specify the time period in which they were involved and provide the necessary details about their outstanding achievements. These could include the initiatives or activities that resulted from the candidate's efforts, benefits to the targeted community, amount of time spent on the volunteer activities, and evolution in the candidate’s roles.

Section 6 – Letters of support

The importance of the letters of support cannot be emphasized enough. They provide real examples to from those who have observed the candidate’s significant contributions and impact, including to the advancement of a cause, the development of an organization, or the completion of a major project. For that reason, the letters of support must highlight the candidate’s achievements, the expectations that were placed on them, examples of their significant leadership, and the results they achieved. The letters should also highlight other key points:

  • How long has the letter writer known the candidate? In what context did they observe the candidate's contribution? How does the candidate stand out and in which activities do they shine? What is remarkable about them and what impact have they had? 
  • If you refer to an organization that is not widely known, please describe its mission and the candidate's impact on it.
  • Highlight the key points of each letter of support in the appropriate section of the nomination file. This will reinforce the achievements that have been mentioned.