Our two most popular seminars are:
Practical Tips for Controllers & CFOs: This one day seminar contains over 250 tips to help you in your job. More than 2,200 Canadian accountants have attended this seminar.
Practical Analysis for Accountants - The Case Course: This one day case seminar, puts you to work with your peers on in-depth cases on practical topics you deal with at work, like banking and financial reporting.

You will learn practical, relevant tips you’ll apply directly in your job. Practical PD provides nitty-gritty tips to help you report key business indicators, get the most from your bank, minimize costs, hire and fire intelligently, navigate ethical dilemmas, and more. Attendees appreciate our innovative approach. We steer away from vision, strategy and other “soft” issues covered in other courses. Instead, we emphasize useful, specific tips. These one-day seminars qualify for PD hours or credits for all Canadian professional accounting designations. You’ll find our real-world approach engaging, thought-provoking and fun.

What participants say about Practical PD seminars:

• Great opportunity to hear how to become a good CFO
• Usually PD seminars are dull - this lecturer was a refreshing change and stimulates interest
• It by far exceeded my expectations and provided a great deal of very useful information that I think will be benefit me throughout my career
• Like all round approach – HR, financial, etc.
• Good stories, good use of projector, good humour, very good instructor, kept the course fun and entertaining
• Practical across different industries and the real world examples were appealingInteresting business discussions; humorous anecdotes

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Practical PD founder Stephen Priddle, CA, CMA has created all our seminars. They are offered directly by Practical PD and sometimes through Institutes of Chartered Accountants, CGA Associations and CMA Societies.