ACCOUNTING CONTEST

Sponsored by: The Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario (CPA)

STUDENTS: Please access the contest portal through this link. You will need a unique login from your teacher that they received upon registering your class/school.

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PRE-REGISTRATION: Teachers must Pre Register their classes through their OBEA membership portal.  They will need to identify the number of students for each contest they would like to register and identify the time slots they will be running their school’s contests at.

CONTEST DATE AND TIME: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 between 7am and 5pm (Duration: 60 minutes)

NEW THIS YEAR *2025*: There is NO LIMIT to the number of students that a school can register to write the contest.  BUT, all students at the same school, in the same grade, MUST write the contest at the same time.  Eg. ALL grade 11 contest writers from one school must write at 9am and ALL grade 12 contest writers must write at 1pm.  Please consider your own schools limitations in regards to  supervision and device capacity when deciding the number of students to register and the time slot you will be selecting.

Please note that any breaking of the procedural or time rules will result in the entire school being disqualified from the competition.


CONTEST LEVELS:
There are two levels offered: Grade 11 & Grade 12
TOPICS: See the Business Studies 2006 Curriculum Document. All overall and specific expectations
may be covered in the Contest.

ELIGIBILITY FOR ACCOUNTING CONTESTS:

GRADE 11 CONTEST ELIGIBILITY
Open to any student who is enrolled in or has completed their first course in Accounting. The student may not currently be taking nor have taken a second course in Accounting.

GRADE 12 CONTEST ELIGIBILITY
Open to any student who has completed or is currently enrolled in the Grade 12 Accounting course. The student may not have previously competed in this category.

INSTRUCTIONS AND CONTEST INFORMATION:
Each school must choose a 60 minute time slot for each grade to write their contest on the contest date between the available times. Non Programmable calculators may be used.

  1. Both Contests will be one hour (60 minutes) in length.
  2. Both Contests will be composed of 75 multiple choice questions.
  3. A written tie-breaking question will be included as part of the one hour Contest. The written tie-breaking question will only be used to determine the top provincial rankings.
  4. All Contests will be graded out of 75, with one mark allotted for each correct answer.
  5. There are no deductions for incorrect answers.

ACCOUNTING CONTEST PROCEDURES:

Student Registration:
OBEA Members can register their school for the contest through their OBEA membership login.
Upon submitting the form, the system will automatically generate login tokens for each of the registrant “slots” that the teacher has reserved. This will be shown on screen as well as emailed to the teacher’s email address . Note: Please do not submit the Contest Student Identification Form for these registrants.

Contest Writing:

  1. Once the student logs into the system, the student will be prompted to enter their identification information (name, school, board and teacher) as well as review and agree to the rules.
  2. Next, the questions and answers will be displayed five per page. Students are to select the one best answer for each question.
  3. A dynamic paging system will be displayed at the bottom of the page allowing the student to return to previous pages to review their answers.
  4. Page numbers will appear black if there are unanswered questions on that page and green if all the questions on that page have been answered.
  5. Once the student has answered all the questions, they will be presented with a screen prompting them to log out. At this point, the Contest is complete.
  6. After the submission screen, there is an optional page for students to report any problems or required revisions for any questions they encountered.

The Chartered Professional Accountants—Ontario is the sponsor of the Accounting Contests.
Please do not involve any other Accounting organizations in any Award Ceremonies.

Participation in the grade 11 or 12 Accounting Contest can be used as a Specialized Business
Certification in the completion of the SHSM program.