The CGA program is a competency-based curriculum that requires candidates to perform tasks and roles to standards expected in the work environment.
[4] Elections to CGA Ontario's board of directors are held on an annual basis via an online voting system during the month of May.
Its head office was located in the Traders Bank of Canada Building, at 67 Yonge Street in Toronto.
In 1973, CGA Ontario became the first association of accountants in Canada to implement a mandatory program of continuing professional development.
In 2010 it created the CGA Ontario Professorship in Accounting at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.
In 2012 it created the CGA Ontario Chair in International Entrepreneurship at York University's Schulich School of Business.
It was conceived by Grip Limited, a communications agency based in Toronto, whose clients have included Honda, Cadbury Adams, Glaxo Smith Kline, and lululemon athletica.