Guest speaker from Save the Children Canada Cash Transfer Programming – Growing Global Aid Priority Mr. Alejandro Terrones Humanitarian Adviser of Save the Children Canada Presentation Schedule Date: March 14 (Tuesday) Time: 4:00pm-6:30pm Place: HNE 037 Contact information: Prof. Fuminori Toyasaki (toyasaki@yorku.ca) Contents 1. What is Cash Transfer Programming (CTP) 2. CTP as a Growing […]
Balancing Numbers and Kindness: Alumnus Provides Experiential Learning for York’s Accounting Students There was a time when Bartosz Amerski (BAS ‘06) thought that university was not for him. As a Polish immigrant who came to Canada in 1990 at 12 years old, he believed that his rudimentary English-language skills and lack of funds would preclude […]
Sign up early — there are never enough spots! Volunteers Wanted! We work with the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario (CPA Ontario) to hold Income Tax Sessions during the months of March and April. Our clients include families and seniors who reside in the community surrounding York, including many new immigrants to Canada. Since 2005, we […]
Join your CPA Ontario Recruiter Emma Zaorski, SAS Accounting Faculty and SAS alumni to discuss your different pathways to the CPA. Emma will be discussing the benefits of the designation, how to get into the program and details of obtaining your CPA. This will be followed by details on SAS’s newly launched Graduate Diploma in […]
Professor Gary Spraakman, School of Administrative Studies, dug deep into the over-300-year accounting history of the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) and won the Barbara D. Merino Award for Excellence in Accounting History Publication. The award was granted to Spraakman from the Academy of Accounting Historians, at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Accounting Association, in […]
More than 50 accounting and finance professors and graduate students converged at the third Ontario Universities Accounting & Finance Symposium. Representatives came from 11 universities across Ontario, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The event, which took place Oct. 6 […]
The Entrepreneurship Development Association (EDA) is recruiting talented students with the passion for innovation and entrepreneurship for its executive team. The mission of this student-run professional organization is to motivate, assist and develop the skills of students who have a desire to pursue entrepreneurial ventures by creating opportunities for success via mentoring and networking. Their […]
York Faculty in the Media Professor Ken McBey’s observations regarding Fort McMurray reported in Global News (cited in Y-File presently). [Read more…]
In the issue of March 2016 CPA magazine reports the 2015 compensation survey and among the CPAs featured is Michael Sedigh, a SAS 2009 alumnus with a specialized honours in Accounting and a certificate in management. We are pleased to read about his experience as an entrepreneur growing up his family CPA practice, and even […]
Entrepreneurship Development Association (EDA) Workshop #4, Young Entrepreneurs Panel Discussion March 30th, 6pm-8:30 pm @109 Atkinson EDA Workshop# 4 Poster (PDF)