Advantage Montreal Seminars Inc.About The Company
Advantage Montreal Seminars specializes in providing prep courses for individuals seeking designations for CPA, IQEX, CGA and CMA exams; IFRS and IFRS in-house training. The review courses are held over several weeks, giving participants the opportunity to study and come back with questions. In addition, the firm offers in-house seminars on specialized accounting, finance and management topics customized to company needs (e.g. GAAP).
Leah Donti founded Advantage Montreal Seminars Inc. in 1991. Leah is an internationally recognized seminar leader in accounting and has been doing seminars full time since 1991 through her seminar business. She conducts in-house training at CA and CPA firms as well as various companies. In addition, she speaks at numerous conferences across North America.
She speaks on IFRS, PE GAAP, corporate
tax, personal tax, variable interest entities, accounting and
auditing update, revenue recognition, stock options, business
combinations, compilation and review, Sarbanes-Oxley, and fair value
accounting.
She also provides proprietary prep
seminars for accounting examinations (CGA, CMA, IQEX and CPA).
She graduated from McGill University in 1984 with a Bachelor of Commerce, in Accounting and Finance. In 1986, she received her CMA designation. In 1991, she obtained her MBA degree from Concordia University in Montreal.
Upon graduation from McGill, she held positions in internal audit and cost accounting with Canadian Pacific, one of the largest companies in Canada.
Prior to beginning her seminar practice in 1991, Ms. Donti worked for DMR, a major information management consulting organization, where she provided training to offices across North America. She also worked with an accounting software firm offering accounting education courses to clients on site.
Leah’s interest in IFRS began in November 1992 where she attended an international accounting conference in Dunedin, New Zealand and chose to learn IFRS starting then. In 1997, she began offering IFRS training.
In 2010 and 2011, Leah received the Outstanding Discussion Leader Award given by the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants).