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Member benefits available from the Ontario Institute

The Institute is pleased to offer the following services to members of GAA Institutes who are living temporarily or permanently in Ontario.

• Continuing professional development
• CheckMark magazine 
• District Association networking events
• Member Advisory Services
  
  

If you are a member of one of the GAA Institutes working in Ontario, please complete the GAA Passport Form to register for these benefits and services. Contact custserv@icao.on.ca if you have further questions. From time to time, additional benefits may be added.

Continuing professional development

The Institute's Professional Development area supports members' lifelong learning needs through a broad range of cost-effective, high-quality programs. Whether you work in public practice, industry, government or academia, there are programs designed to help you maintain and enhance your professional competence. All Institute PD programs are also open to Non-CAs.

Members of GAA Institutes can attend Institute courses at member rates.

CheckMark magazine

CheckMark, the official publication of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario, is published four times a year and distributed to all Ontario CAs, along with CA students and associate students, for a total circulation of over 34,000. It is available online . 

District Association networking events

Institute District CA Associations (DAs) maintain a local presence for the CA profession through activities of benefit to CAs and the communities in which they live. Through tax clinics, communications and contacts, Ontario's 23 DAs play an important role in projecting our profession's local community profile. Our DAs also help to serve, represent and provide fellowship among chartered accountants throughout the province and help bring the Institute's programs to its members in local areas. 

 Member Advisory Services

The overall objective of the MAdvisory Service is to encourage and assist members, on a voluntary and confidential basis, to maintain quality professional services. It includes free, short-duration telephone consultations, providing members with a source of objective, confidential, and thoughtful feedback on matters encountered in practice. Discussions may include accounting, assurance and reporting issues, practice management problems or other related concerns.