Economic Challenges and Opportunities for 2022

Economic Challenges and Opportunities for 2022

Join your fellow Advocis Vancouver Island members for this timely event on Wednesday, February 23, 2022, from 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M. (Pacific Time).

Our chapter presents MNP Partners Kam Sidhu and Susan Mowbray, who will discuss the MNP Economic Report produced for the Vancouver Island Economic Summit, highlighting risks and opportunities from 2021 and outlook for 2022, with specific highlights for Financial Advisors to bring to client discussions.

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Available spots are limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Registration closes on February 21, 2022, at 11:30 P.M. (PST).
This event is pending review for 2.5 CE credits

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Agenda:

9:00 A.M. - 9:05 A.M. – Introduction

Phillip Bisset-Covaneiro, Vancouver Island Chapter Vice President and Program Chair

9:05 A.M. - 10:30 A.M. – State of the Island Economic Report 2021, Outlook for 2022

MNP Partners, Kam Sidhu, CPA and Susan Mowbray, MA

10:30 A.M. – 10:50 A.M. – Q&A

10:50 A.M. – 11:20 A.M. – Sponsor Spotlight

11:20 A.M. – 11:55 A.M. – Discussion of budget reforms and Covid government relief measures

11:55 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. – Q&A and Close

Presenters:

Kam Sandhu, CPA

Kam Sandhu, CPA, is a Partner and Business Advisor with MNP’s Assurance and Indigenous Services group based in Nanaimo. Kam works closely with First Nations across B.C., delivering a broad range of customized services and advice to support his clients in moving their communities and businesses forward.

With a keen understanding of the opportunities and challenges that First Nation communities face, Kam works with his clients on everything from policy development to project management. He also helps his clients with audits and other assurance services and provides management and chief financial officer solutions.

Kam earned a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from the University of the Fraser Valley in 2012. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), qualifying in 2016.

Susan Mowbray, MA

Susan Mowbray, MA, is a Partner in MNP’s Vancouver Consulting Practice. With more than two decades of experience in economic modelling, applying economic analysis and project management, Susan helps clients achieve their business goals and enhance their success.

Susan delivers demand forecasts, prepares community profiles and economic indicators for economic development agencies, models economic impacts and labour demand, develops cost estimates and prepares business cases. She analyzes information and delivers comprehensive information developing reports for audiences ranging from academics and government to business and community groups.

Susan works closely with public sector organizations, industry associations and private companies in the aquaculture, transportation, health care, not-for-profit, utilities, education, manufacturing and automotive sectors.

Susan earned a Master of Arts (MA) from Simon Fraser University in 1998. She has taught in the business school at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and is a member of the Association of Professional Economists of B.C. and the Canadian Association of Business Economists.

Questions:

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this event, please reach out to the Advocis Vancouver Island chapter at vancouverisland@advocischapter.ca.