CPABC in Focus September/October 2014 | Page 23

New for CGA-BC* •  oving from the assessment of individual M practitioners to the assessment of firms, whereby the results of the individual partners will affect the overall results of the firm, and partners will be made aware of the outcomes of inspections for their fellow partners. •  s assessment relates to the firm, re-inspection A will also focus on the firm, and the scope of the re-inspection may include all partners in the firm who perform the type of engagements that did not meet the inspection requirements. •  e introduction of a substantially different Th practice inspection methodology—one that includes different file selection, different categorization and evaluation of deficiencies, and different consequences; the most significant of these consequences is the re-inspection requirement if the firm is deemed not to have met the standards. •  ssessing practitioners based solely on A their adherence to the standards of the CPA Canada Handbook (currently, CGA practitioners are assessed on their adherence to both the CPA-Canada Handbook standards and the CGA-Canada Public Practice Manual). •  dopting the CPA national practice A inspection approach, and no longer providing practitioners wit