FEI CANADA 2011 ANNUAL REPORT

FEI CANADA 2011 ANNUAL REPORT
new accounting standard, some of our members are itching to get on the next conference
call to get their two cents in. Tyrone Cotie, our recent CCR chair, has enjoyed discussing our
perspectives with senior AcSB and OSC officials. We were also again invited this past
year to present our views to the Finance Committee of the House of Commons.
As Vancouver member and incoming national vice-chair Lisa Dorian puts it: “You get to
make a difference.”
• MEMBERS GET OUT OF IT WHAT THEY PUT IN: We would like to take this opportunity to
thank FEI Canada’s volunteer leadership, the more than 200 members who contribute to
our committees and chapter boards and make up about 10% of our membership. They
dedicate hours of time to helping their fellow members have a great experience with
our association, and we can’t thank them enough. A special thank you goes out to
our retiring directors: former CCR Chair, Tyrone Cotie; Conference Chair Louis O’Brien;
Susan Nemec; Jim Fergusson; and our Immediate Past Chair, Karyn Brooks. Karyn is a
notable example of a person who exemplifies volunteer leadership. She has become one
of Canada’s foremost experts in accounting standards. She has represented FEI Canada
admirably on various bodies, most notably the IASB’s IFRS Council. We were lucky that
Karyn discovered FEI Canada in 1997, beginning with our Committee on Corporate
Reporting, through Harry Schaefer, her long term mentor and former boss at TransCanada
(and himself a Capon award winner). We would like to encourage all veteran FEI Canada
members to get the best and brightest of the next generation of financial leaders involved
in FEI Canada’s activities.
Another way we seek input from members is through surveys we conduct for our research
studies. One interesting study we conducted this year, “Beyond the numbers: The evolving leadership
role of the CFO”, found that financial executives are being asked to do a lot more than number-
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