On May 16, 2023, at the Château Royal in Laval, the Centre québécois de formation en fiscalité (CQFF) celebrated its 30th anniversary in the company of some 100 participants along with several partners and colleagues.
Honouring CQFF founder Yves Chartrand
This event was an opportunity to thank the many participants who, since 1992, have been taking annual tax training courses from the CQFF’s talented team. It also highlighted the remarkable contribution of the CQFF’s founder, Yves Chartrand.
Recently retired, Yves has put all his heart, passion and talent into building a solid team that has become the leading tax reference in Québec!
“Our entire CQFF team, our partners and our colleagues at Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton—the leading professional services firm in Québec and a strategic CQFF partner since 2021—join me in thanking Mr. Chartrand for his valuable contribution to the organization’s success. His legacy is an important one, and we will continue to thrive according to the standard of excellence and quality that marked his career,” said Daniel Benard, the CQFF’s executive director.
The CQFF teams up with Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton
In June 2021, CQFF partnered with Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton, whose ranks include several big names in Québec taxation. The partnership ensured our institution’s long-term sustainability. Through its training programs, the CQFF reaches an average of more than 9,000 participants annually in the fields of tax, accounting and financial planning.
The CQFF is dedicated to quality tax training and information. It has enjoyed exceptional success since its founding in 1992. Through its offerings, it reaches thousands of accountants, financial planners, tax specialists, controllers working in SMEs, financial managers and other professionals with solid tax knowledge, each year.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
The entire CQFF team would like to warmly thank all its participants and partners for their trust over the past 30 years. “We are here for you and we intend to remain a partner of choice for many years to come,” concluded Mr. Benard.
The CQFF will continue to innovate by offering courses adapted to the tax and financial issues faced by today’s organizations. Stay tuned for the 2023-2024 season’s training courses and discover a wealth of practical information by visiting www.cqff.com.
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April 22nd will be Earth Day. For the occasion, we are publishing our second Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Impact Assessment Report. This report is very important for our firm, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2023.
In 2021, we launched our first impact assessment report to take stock of our social responsibility actions. The exercise allowed us to assess the key areas where the firm and its staff could act concretely to truly impact our clients, talent and communities.
We developed concrete 2022 objectives that would allow us to progress, in a spirit of continuous improvement, towards a better version of ourselves. This past year has been marked by a widespread labour shortage that is highly preoccupying to our entrepreneurs, an inflationary economy, significant supply chain challenges, a tentative return to hybrid work and a society that is at last reaching out to the Indigenous cultures it has too-long overlooked.
The backdrop: a persistent pandemic, and major concerns about the climate crisis and cyber risks—both ever-increasing. We are very proud to be helping some 50,000 clients, from all Québec communities, evolve through these major issues.
This year’s report aims to tell the stories of our people in the field who, day in and day out, make a real difference. It captures in words and pictures how this year again the firm has exemplified our mission, “Driving our talent, clients and communities through our solid advice.”
Read our 2022 impact assessment report (in French) to learn about our initiatives and track our progress.
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Renewed trust in our firm and our 2,800 professionals
Leger has unveiled the results of its 26th Reputation Study. This year again, it confirms that the entire staff of the largest Québec-owned accounting firm is committed to serving our clients with passion, diligence and great professionalism. Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton is proud to continue to hold first place in Leger’s ranking of the accounting businesses most admired by Quebeckers.
We greatly appreciate this recognition because it comes directly from Quebeckers, who are our clients, business partners, leaders and entrepreneurs. This valuable gift will mark our 75th anniversary this year. It motivates us to stay committed to empowering our clients and communities through our solid advice.
Thank you for your trust and for making Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton the most admired accounting and management firm in Québec!
About the Leger Reputation Study
Reputation, created by Leger, has become the benchmark for measuring corporate reputation in Canada and monitoring how it changes over time. This year, Leger surveyed more than 38,000 Canadians to obtain their perspectives on more than 300 companies in 30 different sectors. For the Québec portion of the survey, Leger conducted 17,257 interviews to explore Quebeckers’ perspective on 377 companies in 35 different sectors.
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Following the tabling of the Québec and federal budgets on March 21 and 28, 2023 respectively, several Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton experts shared their observations and sound advice through numerous Québec and Canadian media.
Our lead spokespersons sought to inform individuals of the main measures affecting their pocketbook, and advise executives and entrepreneurs of the tax and financial measures impacting their business strategies.
Through these interviews, readers, listeners and viewers were led to better understand the scope of some of the key measures in both budgets, including those that might have stayed under the radar, but are proving to be major.
Over 70 interviews in Québec and across the country
No less than 70 single interviews involved 10 tax and consulting experts from Abitibi to the Magdalen Islands, and several Canadian provinces (through numerous interviews with Radio-Canada radio stations). To read, hear or watch these interviews, visit our In the Media webpage.
Thank you very much to all our colleagues
This large-scale operation would not have been possible without the support of the firm’s Communications and Marketing team and all its spokespersons, whom we thank from the bottom of our hearts for their valuable contribution: Partners Annick Breton (Lévis), Bruno Charron (Gatineau), Patrick Delisle (Laval), Éric Dufour (Chicoutimi), Sylvain Gilbert (Sherbrooke), Gino Gosselin (Matane), Steeve Vachon (Sainte-Marie), Managers Olivier Levesque (Roberval) and Stéphanie Roy (Val-d’Or), as well as Stéphane Thibault of the Centre québécois de formation en fiscalité (CQFF), a strategic partner of our firm.
Thank you all for your commitment in showcasing the expertise of our large firm for the benefit of businesses and individuals!
