Appendix F: Skills for the future

Our people bring a unique value to our firm— we are committed to their holistic development to help them achieve their personal goals, realize their ambitions, and live their passions. These tables outline the time we’ve dedicated to supporting our people through training, broken down by position and average per-person training hours we dedicated.

The 2022 figures have been revised due to internal changes made to our employee categories to better reflect our workforce. While the change is not deemed to be material, the original 2022 figures have been recalculated and included within this report to allow for comparability. 

• Training hours are defined as verifiable training based on program durations offered by or through BDO Canada LLP, for example, our Workday completion status reports, Percipio learner activity reports, learning pilot programs, development programs, and coaching programs.
• Average headcount is used to calculate learning and development metrics per person. Average headcount for the year is defined as the average total number of partners and employees, including both active employees and departures. This figure does not include any contingent workers.

• It should be noted that BDO is compliant with the professional development requirements of CPA Canada.
• The data presented here does not include external training such as self-study, authoring, facilitated technical training, etc.