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  • Tax Tips For Personal Tax Filers, 2025 Edition: Part 2

    Tax Tips For Personal Tax Filers, 2025 Edition: Part 2
    2025/03/05
    In this second half of our two-part tax tips episode for 2025, CPA Antonia Stiuca provides more information and pro tips for listeners as they work on their 2024 personal tax returns. Antonia explains how to claim medical expenses on your 2024 personal tax return, talks about what you can do if you don't get a T4 slip from an employer, and covers a whole lot of other topics related to filing your 2024 tax return. She and host Erin Schwartz also find time to talk a bit about Romanian cuisine and wine! Note: The content of this podcast is intended as general information only and should not be construed as personal advice. For questions about your tax return, please contact your tax specialist.
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    28 分
  • Tax Tips For Personal Tax Filers, 2025 Edition: Part 1

    Tax Tips For Personal Tax Filers, 2025 Edition: Part 1
    2025/03/05
    Uncommon Sense is back with its annual tax tips episode! In Part 1 of this two-part episode, CPA Antonia Stiuca walks listeners through some valuable information that will come in handy when they're preparing their 2024 personal tax returns this spring. If you're wondering if the Canada Carbon Rebate is considered taxable income or how the talk in 2024 about changes to taxes on capital gains might affect your 2024 personal tax return, then you'll want to listen to this episode. Antonia also shares some insights into her career as a tax specialist and talks about her journey from her home country of Romania to the creation of her own boutique accounting firm, named Facultas. She also fills in host Erin Schwartz with the downlow on Romania's vampire myth! Note: The content of this podcast is intended as general information only and should not be construed as personal advice. For questions about your tax return, please contact your tax specialist.
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    23 分
  • A "First Class" CPA: In Conversation with Katherina Richard CPA

    A "First Class" CPA: In Conversation with Katherina Richard CPA
    2025/02/27
    Over the next several months, Uncommon Sense will feature occasional episodes focusing on an historic group of CPAs: members of the first-ever class of Alberta graduates from the CPA program following the unification of the accounting profession in Canada. These CPAs, who crossed the CPA convocation stage in February 2016, were the first in Alberta not to have a legacy designation attached to their CPA titles. As the 10th anniversary of this class of graduates approaches, we'll hear stories and insights from members of the class. In this inaugural episode of the "first class" series, host Erin Schwartz has a free-wheeling conversation with Katherina Richard CPA, a Partner at MNP in Edmonton. Katherina shares her thoughts on being part of that memorable graduating class as well as her career path to partnership and her work serving First Nations and Metis Settlement communities. Katherina and Erin also reflect on blending motherhood with careers, explosions (!), and that forever-famous CPA "helicopter ad" from 2015.
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    28 分
  • From Cameroon to Calgary: A Black CPA’s Incredible Journey, Part 2

    From Cameroon to Calgary: A Black CPA’s Incredible Journey, Part 2
    2025/02/18
    In this episode, we wrap up our two-part conversation with Calgary CPA Nadine Niba, a Black woman with a powerful story. Nadine reflects on the importance of mentors, colleagues, and friends to her personal and career success, and discusses the work she currently does to support and mentor Black women and other newcomers who face many of the same struggles she did as a new immigrant to Canada. She also talks candidly about the importance of observing Black History Month in Canada. If you missed Part 1 of our discussion with Nadine, be sure to go back and listen. It was posted on February 13.
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    28 分
  • From Cameroon to Calgary: A Black CPA’s Incredible Journey, Part 1

    From Cameroon to Calgary: A Black CPA’s Incredible Journey, Part 1
    2025/02/12
    Calgary CPA Nadine Niba is a CPA from Cameroon whose story of struggle and success as a Black woman immigrant is powerful, inspirational and unforgettable. To mark Black History Month, this episode of Uncommon Sense focuses on Nadine's journey from West Africa to Calgary about a decade ago. Nadine speaks openly about the gut-wrenching challenges she faced as a Black immigrant as well as the resolve and inner strength she used to overcome those challenges, earn her CPA designation, and embark on a remarkable career. Be sure to also watch for Part 2 of our discussion with Nadine, coming on February 20.
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    28 分
  • Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe or Frenemy?

    Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe or Frenemy?
    2025/02/06
    There's a big debate these days about whether AI is a useful tool or a threat. But there is no debating that AI is here to stay—in business and in our personal lives. In this episode, CPA Stan Korsountsev shares his expertise to unravel some of the mysteries about AI, how it works, and its role in and outside of the workplace.
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    38 分
  • The Big Conversion: Creating New Housing in Calgary Through Office Conversion

    The Big Conversion: Creating New Housing in Calgary Through Office Conversion
    2025/01/30
    Conversion of vacant office space into residential housing has become a popular trend in cities across Canada in the years since the pandemic. On this episode of Uncommon Sense, CPA Heather Weir of the Astra Group of Companies talks about her company's experiences in turning vacant office buildings into vibrant housing units; describes the positive economic, environmental, and social impacts of conversions; and discusses how this work is contributing to the revitalization of Calgary's downtown.
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    28 分
  • From Start-Up to C-Suite: David Filewich's Journey to CEO

    From Start-Up to C-Suite: David Filewich's Journey to CEO
    2025/01/23
    In this episode, CPA David Filewich, the current CEO of CPA Insurance Plans West (CPAIPW), talks about his journey from entrepreneur in the tech sector to leadership of an organization that serves CPAs and their families across western Canada. He offers insights and reflections about entrepreneurship based on his experiences and also provides a valuable overview of CPAIPW and its services to the CPA profession and CPA candidates.
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    22 分