ACCA is pleased to be offering several training workshops in 2010 & 2011. Details on workshops being offered are below.

For additional information, please contact Dianne Schoepp
 

2010 Agriculture Update for Professionals

This course is being held at 8 different locations through out Alberta and Saskatchewan. We have re-invented the Agriculture Tax Update for Professionals to incorporate a wide array of great suggestions from our past participants. You can look forward to an interactive agenda that provides practical real life examples, insights into industry trends and common agricultural accounting and tax situations. Please visit our website www.acca.coop for specific dates and locations.

Co-operative Basics

Learning objectives:

• Distinguish co-ops from other business forms
• Clarify principles
• Build a sense of pride in our co-operative heritage
• Learn about other co-operatives
• Identify the co-operative advantage
• Basic roles of the delegates and directors

January 20 & 21, 2011 8:30am-4:30pm
Executive Royal Inn-8450 Sparrow Drive, Leduc, AB
Members: $500.00+gst

Financial Analysis and Planning for Non Financial Managers

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the budgets and their role in internal control
• Understand the key information contained in financial statements and statement relationships
• Identify sources and uses of cash, calculate ratios for liquidity, return on equity and return on investment
• Discover aids to financial decision making and comparison.

April 1, 2011 7:00pm-10:00pm
April 2, 2011 9:00am-4:00pm
Radisson Hotel Calgary Airport, 2010-16 Ave NE Calgary, AB
Members: $385.00+gst Non-Members: $460.00+gst

Financial Analysis and Planning for Non Financial Managers - Advanced Course

Learning Objectives:

• Understanding aids to financial analysis and evaluation, financial decision making and for assessing the financial health of an entity
• Understand the role and functions of the audit committee of a board of directors
• Understand the audit committee's role in risk management and internal control
• What the Audit Committee needs to know about international financial reporting standards- how they differ from GAAP and how they are likely to impact upon co-operatives
• Understand non profit financial reporting and how it differs from for profit financial reporting.

April 15, 2011 9:00am-4:30pm
Radisson Hotel Calgary Airport, 2010-16 Ave NE Calgary, AB
Members: $425.00+gst Non-Members: $500.00+gst

Parliamentary Procedures

Learning Objectives:

• What the different types of motions are and when to use them
• How to know which motion gets priority; how to make motions and debate them
• How to amend a motion, how to amend an amendment
• Participants should be prepared to participate in an intense learning session.

March 4, 2011 9:00am-4:00pm
Radisson Hotel Calgary Airport, 2010-16 Ave NE Calgary, AB
Members: $450.00+gst Non-Members: $525.00+gst

The theme of Women’s Worlds 2011 is “Inclusions, exclusions, and seclusions: Living in a globalized world”. Why? Where globalization and women are concerned, provocative questions abound:

• Does globalization include, exclude, and/or seclude women?
• As global hierarchies realign, how are gender roles and identities evolving?
• How are social identifications like power, privilege, citizenship, and nation affected?

Ours is an increasingly integrated world – one where boundaries are shifting under growing flows of capital, goods, power … and people. Who and where we are as individuals and communities becomes less clear within this contemporary, globalized context.

Around the world, women are grappling with changing political, cultural, economic, social, and environmental realities. And the effects of numerous crises – be they economic, ecological, or health-related – intensify obstacles to women’s equality.

Globalization has contributed to the destabilization and marginalization of women and communities. Yet certain consequences have yielded positive results for women. Globalization has meant enhanced communications and organizing – trans-national connectivity that must be deepened as women’s organizations and networks struggle to sustain themselves and maintain resilience in the face of forces that oppose women's equality.

Women’s Worlds 2011 will be a place for the exploration of these complex matters through reflection, learning, and sharing a variety of ideas and experiences – especially those of women most deeply affected.