Arlene Garfinkle, CA·CBV, MBA - Associate

Professional Experience

• Rich Rotstein Chartered Accountants - Associate
  Responsible for the following:
  • Providing business valuation and damages quantification services, including economic loss, wrongful death and personal injury reports, for both Plaintiff and Defendant purposes, to various professional clients of the Firm.


• BDO Dunwoody, National Office, Toronto - National Office Director, Accounting & Auditing Standards
  Responsible for the following:
  • Ensuring that the Firm's professional standards in accounting and auditing were of high quality throughout its approximately 70 offices. This was accomplished by monitoring the development of standards in the profession and disseminating the information via changes to the Firm's Manual and forms, writing technical bulletins and newsletters and developing and delivering training programs.
  • Responding to CICA Accounting and Auditing Associates' material as well as formulating a Firm response to all Exposure Drafts.
  • Administering and participating in the Firm's Quality Assurance Review (peer review) program.


• Consulting and Teaching, Toronto - Self Employed
  Responsible for the following:
  • Delivering courses for the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.
  • Providing preparation courses for the Chartered Accountants' Uniform Final Exams.
  • Providing personal tax services to small firms and private individuals.
  • Providing accounting and auditing services to small firms.
  • Lecturing at York University in both Introductory and Intermediate Accounting.


• University of Toronto - Tutor in Accounting
  Responsible for the following:
  • Lecturing in Introductory, Intermediate and Cost Accounting
  • Setting examinations and grading keys


• McGill University, Montreal - Accounting Lecturer



• Zitter Siblin Stein Levine, Montreal - Chartered Accountant
  Responsible for the following:
  • Auditing and accounting for a diversified group of manufacturing, retail, investment, real estate and management clients.
  • Supervising and training junior staff.
  • Coordinating personal tax season, including leading seminars for staff.
  • Developing computer programs for internal and external applications (BASIC).
  • Assisting clients in the selection of appropriate computer hardware and software.

Education

• 1999 - CICBV - Chartered Business Valuator
• 1986 - McGill University - Masters in Business Administration
• 1983 - Ordre des Comptables Agrees du Quebec - Chartered Accountant
• 1981 - 1982 - McGill University - Graduate Diploma in Public Accountancy (C. Douglas Mellor Prize - 1st Place)
• 1978 - 1981 - McGill University - Bachelor of Commerce (Double Concentration in Accounting and Management Information Systems)

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