A popular speaker, author and consultant to the public accounting profession, Steve McIntyre-Smith teaches 'real-life' skills that you can take back to the office and use straight away. Most of the tools he provides course participants cost little or nothing at all to do, and have been tried and tested by him during his twelve highly successful years in practice, or by his clients in the following thirteen years to date as a consultant to accounting firms. A resident columnist for Canada's accounting newspaper, 'The Bottom Line', Steve has strong opinions on a number of issues facing the practitioner today, and he delivers them in a lively, entertaining, practical, down-to-earth manner, often with a touch of self-depricating humour! Some of Steve's courses are available directly through the Institute of Chartered Accountants, others through MFA Group Inc, and many are available as tailored, in-house seminars for public accounting firms.

Steve's Seminar Dates...

2008	Course Title	Client/Organization	Venue
12th May	Best Practices	CCH Canadian Ltd	The Westin Nova Scotian Hotel, Halifax
14th May	Best Practices	CCH Canadian Ltd	The  Delta Hotel, Winnipeg
15th May	Best Practices	CCH Canadian Ltd	Delta Edmonton South Hotel, Edmonton
24th June	Succession Planning	Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario	Markham
15th September	Best Practices	CCH Canadian Ltd	Vancouver
17th September	Best Practices	CCH Canadian Ltd	Saskatoon
19th September	Best Practices	CCH Canadian Ltd	Kitchener
23rd October	Best Practices	CCH Canadian Ltd & Scotiabank	Mississauga
28th October	Succession Planning	Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta	Calgary
29th October	Succession Planning	Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta	Edmonton
4th November	Best Practices	CCH Canadian Ltd & Scotiabank	Richmond Hill
2nd December	Succession Planning	Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario	Toronto
2009	Course Title	Client/Organization	Venue
20th January	Marketing For The Modern Practitioner	Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario	Toronto
12th May	Best Practices	CCH Canadian Ltd	Victoria
13th May	Best Practices	CCH Canadian Ltd	Calgary
14th May	Best Practices	CCH Canadian Ltd	Regina
19th May	Best Practices	CCH Canadian Ltd	Moncton
20th May	Best Practices	CCH Canadian Ltd	Hamilton
21st May	Best Practices	CCH Canadian Ltd	Toronto
More dates being added. Most of these seminars are available directly through your Provincial Institute, so keep a look out for these in your Fall Professional Development Catalogue. CCH Courses are available directly through CCH Canadian at their web site: www.cch.ca/practiceinnovation * Private sessions are not open to the public nor available through the CICA PD Catalouge

Comments from those attending previous courses...

'Fantastic presentation and real life examples'

'One of the best courses I’ve attended!'

'Steve is an extremely knowledgeable expert in the public accounting marketing field, and a very enjoyable presenter.'

'Review of client perspective versus accountant’s perspective very valuable'

'Appreciated support in value of service – good ideas on how to get this across to clients.'

'Some great networking tips'

'Steve was very knowledgeable and an excellent instructor added tremendously to the value of the course.'

'Interesting course leader with good slides and practical examples – very good!'

'Presenter made all the difference'

'Approach was well given at a level that was understandable and such that the tools presented could be implemented.'

'Real life strategies to improve my practice'

'The suggested reading was great advice'

'Very enjoyable. Some great ideas and suggestions.'

'Great passion and enthusiasm. A treat!'

'Presenter was well educated in area, very experienced and gave hands-on experience that we can understand.'

Course Titles...

Coast To Coast...

In 2004 our President & CEO, Steve McIntyre-Smith was appointed to the faculty of The Institute Of Chartered Accountants Of Ontario, and is now teaching for the ICAO. In 2005 the word spread, and he now runs courses for the Institute of Chartered Accountants of...

Details of Steve's courses, dates and locations are available at www.icao.on.ca (for Ontario) under the heading 'professional development'. For visitors outside Ontario, please refer to your PD catalogue for details.

His last evaluation by those attending his 'Marketing For The Modern Practitioner' course gave him the following scores:

Instructor Evaluations:

Presentation Style	96.7%
Subject Knowledge	96.7%
Handling Questions	96.5%
Use of Examples	94.4%
Overall Evaluation	97.6%
OVERALL TOTAL	96.4%

His last "Succession Planning" Seminar scored an even higher, 98.5% approval rate!