The programme
A planned year, taught live, recorded as hours
A season is one planned programme of courses, designed for a single group of firms and fixed before anything is booked. Your people attend. Nobody at your firm organises anything.
The shape of a season
Fixed calendar, and few enough people to ask a question
- Courses in a season
13 courses
About 39 hours of verifiable CPD. A 9 course season is offered where a group wants a lighter programme.
- When they run
The fall season
The calendar is built around the group's own busy periods, so courses sit away from filing deadlines rather than on top of them.
- How they run
Live, online
Question time, materials, and a recording afterwards for anyone who could not attend.
- Group size
500 seats
A ceiling rather than a target. Past it a course stops being a session anyone can ask a question in.
What gets taught
Five areas, weighted to what firms ask for
The balance is not fixed in advance. The group is surveyed each year, and our curriculum lead weights the season toward what firms said they need while keeping the compliance mix intact.
- Public practice
- The issues that come up in practice management, client work and professional standards.
- Assurance
- Audit and review engagements, quality management, and documentation that stands up to inspection.
- Ethics
- The verifiable ethics hours CPA Ontario requires every three years, scheduled so nobody is counting in May.
- Tax
- Personal, corporate and cross-border developments, timed to the filing year.
- Technology
- The tools changing practice work, and the risks that arrive with them.
Who teaches
Presenters are sourced and vetted before they are booked
Our curriculum lead knows this field and knows who teaches it well. Credentials are checked and material is reviewed before a course is scheduled. Presenters are treated as partners and most of them come back season after season, which is the part a catalogue cannot copy.
Among those who have taught on the programme:
- Kirsten S. Albo
- David Baker
- Rino Bellavia
- Stephen Chesney
- Alex Garber
- Diane Gaudon
- Alex Ghani
- John Grummett
- Melanie Russell
- Garth Sheriff
- Peter Thomas
- Amit Ummat
- Howard Wasserman
- Daniel Wilson
- 96%
- Rate instruction Very Good or Excellent
- 98%
- Would attend the same presenter again
- 91%
- Rate overall value Very Good or Excellent
- 270+
- Courses delivered since 1989
Evaluation figures from 4,463 responses across 24 courses, September 2024 to February 2026. Rounded down.
Always included
Eight things never change between consortia
What changes between consortia is the topics, the weighting and the size of the group. What does not change is the list beside this.
- A curated schedule of live courses built for your group
- Presenters sourced, briefed and reviewed before they teach
- Seat-based access with simple management of who holds one
- Question time and course materials with every course
- Recordings for catch-up, which still count as participation
- Attendance records for every person who holds a seat
- Reporting for the firm, all season rather than at the end
- Support for your people throughout the season
What the firm sees
The record builds itself while the season runs
Attendance is observed and reconciled course by course, so nobody has to collect anything. A partner can see the firm’s position at any point, and a shortfall becomes a conversation in November rather than a problem in May.
Participation is human and imperfect. If a record looks wrong it can be reviewed and corrected, because the point is evidence rather than enforcement.
Where your firm stands, at any point in the season
Illustrative firm and people. Hours are credited from attendance, not self-reported.
2026/27 season
| Person | Hours | Ethics | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marie-Claude TremblayPartner | 22 | 4 | On track |
| Priya RaghunathanPartner | 20 | 4 | On track |
| Stephen AldertonManager | 21 | 4 | On track |
| Wei Lin ChowManager | 18 | 4 | 2 hours to go |
| Daniel OkonkwoSenior | 14 | 4 | 6 hours to go |
| Hana YoshidaSenior | 20 | 0 | Ethics outstanding |
Ethics is tracked on its own because CPA Ontario requires 4 verifiable hours every three years and never reduces it. A total-hours view would report the last row as compliant.
See what a season would look like for your firm
Tell us your headcount and the areas that matter most, and we will come back with the shape of a season and what it would cost per person.
Or email admin@pdconsortium.com with your firm and headcount, or call +1 (416) 306-2072.