Today we continue our interview with Felcity Withington, Director of Canadian Tax at Intrawest.
Prior to moving to Vancouver Felicity was the Director of Australian and Asian Taxation in the Sydney head-office of one of Australia’s largest multinational companies, Lend Lease: a diversified real estate company. Felicity started her tax career with Ernst and Young in Sydney and New York, in the real estate, infrastructure and financial services taxation divisions. Following on from yesterday’s theme we asked:
What do you believe differentiates CMA from other professional designations?
I would compare my CMA designation to my law degree; it is a very useful and broad platform from which you may springboard into many different avenues as it is an extremely flexible tool. Nevertheless, like a law degree once you have it you are not a specialist in any one area and it is how you then apply that basis of knowledge and build on it that defines its value. My Masters in Taxation and Bachelors in Commerce are very specialized and train you to think in one area, but what you achieved from a law degree or a CMA is that your mind is opened to many possibilities and consequences of actions rather than just dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s. It is therefore up to the CMA graduate to build their own depth of experience.
Tomorrow we find out why Felicity is perfectly suited to her role on the Chapter Board, i.e. focussing on CPLD.
