Registration Process

CPAB’s registration process consists of two stages and is completed primarily online:

Stage 1 - consists of filing an Intent to Participate and Initial Registration form, a Quality Control Report, and remitting the appropriate fees.

Stage 2 - consists of signing and remitting in hard copy, two copies of the Participation Agreement. Also to be submitted, to complete the registration process, is a certification from the firm that it has obtained the required consent and release forms from all necessary parties and staff. These forms are available and can be downloaded from CPAB's website.

Firms wishing to register must first obtain a user ID number. To obtain a user ID, please click here.

Firms who have obtained a user ID number and wish to continue the registration process, please click here.

Fees

• Stage 1 'Intent to Participate' fees are self-assessed by the applicant firms based on the number of reporting issuer clients, subject to a minimum fee of $1000.00. They are due at the time of filing an Intent to Participate form.
  
  These fees are set out in CPAB Rule 802 which can be found on CPAB's website.
  
  
• Participating Audit Firms pay an 'Annual Participation Fee' to CPAB. The fee is assessed annually as a percentage of audit fees charged by auditors to reporting issuer clients using information reported to CPAB by the firms in an annual filing.