CPA CFE Honour Roll

Graduates from the School of Accounting and Finance programs dominate in the area of accounting education. Each year, SAF graduates demonstrate their expertise in the accounting field by excelling in the CPA Common Final Exam (CFE).

The CFE is the culmination of CPA’s rigorous accreditation process that includes important accounting disciplines such as finance, governance, strategy, and assurance. Additionally, the CFE evaluates professional skills that are in demand within the field such as critical thinking, professional judgement, decision making. The CFE Honour Roll consists of the top one per cent of successful CFE writers.

SAF is extremely proud to celebrate the accomplishments of our Honour Roll candidates and to all of the successful candidates from the school. Qualifying to become a CPA is a very challenging process. We hope the resulting career is rich in rewards and opportunities, and we wish our graduates all the best in their future endeavours!

See a full list of SAF's CFE Honour Roll Alumni Recipients (PDF).

Since the beginning of the School of Accounting and Finance, 15 grads have won the Ontario Gold Medal and 8 have won the National Gold Medal on the common final exam. Hear how they have leveraged their accounting undergraduate and Master of Accounting (MAcc) programs to succeed in the CPA Common Final Exam below.

Full list of Gold Medal winners:

• 1989: John Gossling, BMATH '89 - Ontario Gold Medal
• 1991:
  • Yee W. Rosemary Chiu, MAcc '91, Ontario Gold Medal
  • Cindy Veinot, MAcc '91, National & Ontario Gold Medal, Elijah Watt Sells Gold Medal
• 1999: Douglas Allison, MAcc '99, Ontario Gold Medal
• 2000: Ashish Kapoor, MAcc '00, Ontario Gold Medal
• 2001: Angela Kellett, MAcc '01, National & Ontario Gold Medal
• 2010: Vicky Au, MAcc '10, National & Ontario Gold Medal
• 2011: Juliana Yuen, MAcc '11, National & Ontario Gold Medal
• 2013: Nicholas George Tsai, BMATH '13, National & Ontario Gold Medal
• 2014: Akash Kapoor, BAFM '14, National & Ontario Gold Medal
• 2016:
  • Sanly Li, MAcc '16, Ontario Gold Medal
  • Matthew Roman, MTax '16, Ontario Gold Medal
• 2018: Qianyu Lawrence Zhang, MAcc '18, National & Ontario Gold Medal
• 2019: Michael Wong, MAcc '19, National & Ontario Gold Medal
• 2023: Rebecca Lee, MAcc '23, Provincial Gold Medal

Congratulations to our 12 Masters of Accounting grads that are listed on the Ontario Honour Roll for the CPA Common Final Examination!

The School of Accounting and Finance is proud to celebrate the accomplishments of our Honour Roll candidates and wish them all the best in their future endeavours!

The School of Accounting and Finance is immensely proud to announce that our alumni have earned a place on this year's CFE Honour Roll. Congratulations to our 11 Masters of Accounting grads that are listed on the Ontario Honour Roll for the CPA Common Final Examination. We are extremely proud to celebrate the accomplishments of our Honour Roll candidates and wish them all the best in their future endeavours!

The School of Accounting and Finance would like to congratulate and celebrate our alumni's successes that have placed on the CFE Honour Roll this year. Fifteen graduates from the University of Waterloo’s School of Accounting and Finance are listed on the Ontario Honour Roll for the CPA Common Final Examination.

SAF is extremely proud to celebrate the successes and contributions of the 16 grads who were named to the 2019 CFE Honour Roll.

On February 20^th 2020, the School of Accounting and Finance (SAF) faculty, staff, alumni, and members of CPA Ontario gathered in downtown Toronto to celebrate the achievements of SAF graduates in their Common Final Examinations (CFE) to become a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA). The school also had the chance to sit down with many graduates and discuss their CFE experience and how SAF helped them make it onto the honour roll.

As well as interviews with SAF grads, the school's 2020 celebration included speeches from Steve Fortin, the director of the School of Accounting and Finance at the time, and Carol Wilding, the president of CPA Ontario.