At CALIBR8.ME our mission is to build better training that meets the needs of smaller, accounting practitioners and their main street, small business clients.

We believe that the accounting profession in Canada has lost its way and primarily serves the needs of the largest CPA firms, 10 of which accounted for 46% of the revenue of the more than 30,000 firms in the accounting industry (2019).

Shifting demographics have resulted in a significant increase in older accounting practitioners. According to a 2020 study by K2E CANADA INC, more than 56% of practitioners are at least 55 years of age and 22% are at least 65 years of age. 

What’s more it is also becoming almost impossible to attract – or even train – the next generation of practitioner.

At SMALL BUSINESS ANALYSTS SOCIETY of CANADA we set about building online training materials to meet the needs of the smaller accounting practice, management accountants working with Canada’s small business sector, and of students themselves.

We believe that the accounting competencies required for Canada’s 3.8 million small businesses are fundamentally different from those imagined to be required to meet the needs of the twenty-five thousand or so medium and large-sized businesses.

Too often these imagined competencies are the result of wishful thinking and the ‘spin’ foisted on the rest of us by the marketing departments of our largest firms.