Our role as a professional regulatory organization is to protect the public interest; therefore, registrant verification is one of the most important things we do.
Unlike professions such as law or engineering, anyone in Alberta can call themselves an "accountant" without being registered with the Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta.
For that reason, we devote considerable resources to protect the integrity of the CPA designation so that only members who maintain high professional standards can call themselves a Chartered Professional Accountant in Alberta.