Professionals from Canada and abroad

Get recognition for your professional experience and prior learning

The first step toward obtaining the CPA designation in Quebec is to have your degrees and training evaluated.

4 equivalence profiles

Depending on your degrees and training, you will proceed in one of the following 4 ways.

Training equivalence

For candidates who do not have one of the undergraduate degrees recognized by the Order. 

Admission by affiliation

For professionals who are members of a CPA organization in another Canadian province or territory or Bermuda.

Quebec-France Mutual Recognition Agreement

For members of the Ordre des experts-comptables de France.

Reciprocity agreement

For professionals trained outside Canada who are members of an accounting body covered by a reciprocity agreement.

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Knowledge of French

Knowledge of French

To be a member of a professional order in Quebec, you must have an appropriate knowledge of the French language in general and specific to your profession.
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