UWAC 2010

Past Sponsors

Over the past three years, UWAC has partnered with many notable companies and student organizations to gain support from outside sources. This partnership has not only allowed us to grow the conference, but it has provided our sponsors with an opportunity to meet eager students who are looking toward a carrer in accounting or finance. Our conference would not have been made possible had it not been for generous support of the following sponsors:

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Deloitte, one of Canada’s leading professional services firms, provides audit, tax, consulting and financial advisory services through more than 7600 people in 56 offices. Deloitte is the Canadian member firm of Deloitte Touche Tomatsu.

As a global leader in professional services, Ernst & Young is committed to helping restore the public’s trust in professional services firms and the quality of financial reporting. We pursue the highest levels of integrity, quality, and professionalism to deliver knowledge to our clients in our core services of audit, tax, and transactions. And we provide our people with the support they need to be successful.

BDO has 95 offices across Canada, with 1,200 professionals and over 300 partners. BDO’s services run from assurance, accounting and taxation services to financial advisory and corporate recovery. Whether it’s bringing your tax load down to the minimum, preparing financial statements the marketplace can trust, or helping you overcome financial hurdles, BDO is the accounting services firm for you.

In Canada, PricewaterhouseCoopers has more than 5,200 partners and staff in locations from St. John’s, Newfoundland to Vancouver, British Columbia. Now celebrating 100 years of excellence in Canada, we provide industry focused assurance, advisory and tax services for public, private and government clients in four areas: corporate accountability, risk management, structuring and mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement.

Collins Barrow is Canada’s mid-market alternative for accounting, tax and business consulting solutions. We serve a wide range of business, government, non-profit, agricultural and individual clients in local, regional, national and international markets. Collins Barrow is Canada’s largest association of Chartered Accountancy firms.

KPMG LLP, a Canadian limited liability partnership established under the laws of Ontario, is the Canadian member firm affiliated with KPMG International, a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. Member firms operate in 145 countries and have more than 123,000 professionals working around the world.

SB Partners LLP is a well established forward thinking firm with great reputation for serving the community, delivering value to their clients and team - and an entrepreneurial spirit that keeps them at the forefront of the accounting industry and in tune with their clients.

An affiliate of the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada, the national body representing more than 68,000 CGAs and students in the CGA program, the Certified General Accountants of Ontario is a self-governing body, which grants the exclusive right to the CGA designation and controls the professional standards, conduct and discipline of its members and students in the province of Ontario. Certified general accountants occupy key financial positions in business, industry, education and government. Additionally, as partners and owners of their own firms, many CGAs offer accounting and financial services to the public.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario is the qualifying and regulatory body of Ontario’s 32,000 Chartered Accountants and 4,000 CA students. Since 1879, the Institute has protected the public interest through the CA profession’s high standards of qualification and the enforcement of its rules of professional conduct. Ontario CAs work in public practice, industry, education, government and the not-for-profit sector, and serve every facet of society. They contribute greatly to international and domestic investor confidence in the soundness of the Ontario and Canadian economies.

Certified Management Accountants (CMAs) are strategic and financial management professionals who combine accounting expertise with professional management skills to provide leadership, innovation, and an integrating perspective to organizational decision-making. CMAs use their strategic focus to position an organization for success, their management skills to lead its growth, and their accounting skills to track its progress.

CIBC, is in business to help its clients, employees, and shareholders achieve what matters to them. Their ability to create value for all stakeholders is driven by a business culture based on common values: Trust, Teamwork and Accountability

GE: General Electric Company (GE) is a set of global businesses in infrastructure, finance, and media, aligned to meet today’s needs, including the demand for global infrastructure; growing and changing demographics that need access to healthcare, finance, and information and entertainment; and environmental technologies.

Robert Half International is the world’s first and largest specialized staffing firm. Its divisions place highly skilled professionals on a temporary, temporary-to-hire and full-time basis in the fields of accounting and finance; technology; office administration; legal; and creative, marketing and design. And with more than 360 locations worldwide, Robert Half is dedicated to providing its clients with highly skilled professionals with skills well-matched to the unique hiring requirements and workplace environment.

UniversityBoxes.ca has developed a unique offering to help students deal with the issue of where to store their belongings during the off-term months. UniversityBoxes.ca will pick up your items on the pickup date, take them to our secure storage facility and then return them to you on your requested delivery date. We also offer a large range of supplies to help you with the packing process. We offer boxes, tapes, bubble wraps, and much more. You name it, we have it.

The University of Waterloo Arts Student Union is the official representative body of all undergraduate Arts students. Its purpose is to establish and promote unity and communication among all students, clubs, organizations, and departments within the Faculty. The ASU sponsors, co-ordinates, and execute social, educational, cultural, athletic and academic endeavours for all its members.

ASEC was the income-generating fund that finances projects for the academic betterment of accounting students (undergraduate as well as graduate level) at the University of Waterloo. It is now defunct and operations have been taken over by the AFSA. Learn more at uwafsa.ca.

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