If you are looking for guidance on which subjects can best support your preparation for the CPA Professional Program, the competencies below are recommended as a helpful guide.

Specific CompetenciesFoundational Competencies
  • Assurance and trust
  • Big data and data analytics
  • Ethical decision-making (in a business context) and organizational governance/data governance
  • Finance
  • Financial reporting
  • Management decision-making and information systems/technology
  • Nonfinancial reporting
  • Strategy, risk management, and innovation
  • Tax
  • Value creation
  • Economics and the underlying areas of quantitative methods and probability
  • Law and legal forms of business
  • Organizational behaviour
  • Sustainability (in a business context)