he Canadian Payroll Association (CPA) is one of the resources available to the payroll practitioner. Explore the CPA website and provide detailed information on one of the following areas with respect to how a payroll practitioner could make use of the content:

-              Benefits of Membership

-              Learning Opportunities

-              Resources

-              Legislative Updates

Answer:

Canadian Payroll Association (CPA) represents over forty thousand payroll practitioners working together, who are covered under individual and organizational memberships, with an objective of making payroll legislation and administration better efficient and more effective.

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES:

At CPA, practitioners can overcome payroll challenges posed to their organization and thus become more valuable for their firms. With 20 topics annually updated and more of regular webinars offered, the association fulfills the learning needs of such payroll practitioners who are serving payroll, accounting or human resource functions of their organizations.In addition to the above, in-class seminars are also conducted nationwide offering several online options. Most of such educational offerings are compliant and meet the professional development requirements of other associations.

CPA offers following kinds of seminars:

1. INTRODUCTORY SEMINARS: These seminars are targeted at those practitioners who are completely new to payroll function or require to refresh their existing payroll skills. These represent entry level seminars.

2. COMPLIANCE SEMINARS : These are aimed at providing payroll knowledge which is in compliance with rules and laws and include up to date compliance information on topics relevant for day to day payroll operations, such as taxable benefits.

3. ADVANCED SEMINARS : These are aimed at those practitioners who are desirous of gaining in-depth training on advance payroll topics such as pension or terminations, etc. These are especially designed for seasonal payroll practitioners who are vested with global multi-function or human resources responsibilities.

Apart from above, CPA also offers knowledge of Quebec payrolls, US and UK payrolls and conducts webinars as well.

In light of COVID-19, in class professional development seminars have been currently suspended and been substituted with more of online seminars till Dec 31, 2020.