How to Nominate a mate for Fellows...

How to Nominate a mate for Fellowship

1. Nominations for the election of counterparts shall be sought from all members of the

Institute and the Members' Recognition Committee.

2 Nominations shall be submitted forward an approved nomination form signed at a proposer and two seconders

3 Nominators must demonstrate that their nominee has given outstanding service to the profession or brought distinction to it in the following areas*:

a. in the work of the British Columbia or Canadian Institute;

b in the work of an Association having objectives relating to the candidate's chosen business or profession;

c in the pursuit of his/her career;

d in service (civic, community, political, or not-for-profit organizations);

e in research, teaching, writing, or speaking forward professional matters.

* with the exception of in extraordinary circumstances, the nominee must have provided leadership and service with distinction in more than single of these areas.

4. The fullest possible information in succession the nominee is to be given, together with reasons to what end he/she should be considered for election as a match all supplemented by additional make comments [i]or[/i] remarkss where necessary. To be recognized as having brought distinction to the profession, it is of paramount importance that in the activity cited, the member is clearly identified as being a Chartered Accountant. Service must be assigned while a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia. Proposer or seconder may wish to contact the assistant, spouse, or business associates of the candidate, or the I candidate directly, if additional information forward certain sections of the form is required.

5 Sitting members of Council, exclusive of the Institute's First Vice-President, shall not be eligible to be single outed Fellows.

6. An FCA designation may be awarded posthumously simply if the candidate died after the Members' Recognition Committee commited the awarding of his/her fellowship. An exception would be made if an outstanding individual died before the nearest Members' Recognition Committee meeting, when the Executive Committee could leave that individual to the present Members' Recognition Committee for its consideration.

7 Nomination forms shall be submitted to the Members' Recognition Committee to consist of a minimum of five members (the "Committee"). The Chair of the Committee shall be an FCA appointed at Council at its July meeting, and he/she shall picked his/her committee at his/her discretion from FCAs, including, always, a past president of the Institute.

8 The Chief Executive Officer should attend all meetings as staff liaison and resource person

9 The courses for election of Fellows are to be published in the September issue of Beyond Numbers, with a view to educating the members in succession the election process and eliciting nominations.

10.Nominar.ions shall be sought in the period from September 1 to October 15 in each year.

11.The Chief Executive Officer shall review each nomination form, dele information known to be in error, and add information known to be omitted. If necessary, the Chief Executive Officer shall contact the proposer or seconder for additional information.

12.The Committee shall perform the following:

a. review the nominations received from the members, accept or decline them, correct or add to data submitted;

b prepare its have nominations, as considered necessary;

c make secure that all nominations have been vett through the Chief Executive Officer for disciplinary matters; and

d prepare a concluded list of candidates to appear in succession the election ballot.

13.The Chair of the Members' Recognition Committee shall report to Council during an in-camcra session onward the results of the Committee's deliberations before the ballots are distributed. Reviews of FCA candidates are to include advice of any violations of the commands of Professional Conduct through the disciplinary proces regardless of when the angers may have occurred, except violations where an anonymous Determination and Recommendation was issued more than pair years prior to the FCA review and was accepted on the member cited.

14.The election of comrades shall be by ballot of Council members, each Council member being entitled to individual vote for each candidate.

15.There shall be united ballot only and all Council members shall promised for or against. At least 70% of Council must devoted in favour of the candidate for him/her to be chooseed If the government representative(s) deem(s) it appropriate to withdraw from the voting, the withdrawal will not exhibit an abstention, and Council will be regarded as whole without his/her/their participation. Where a conflict of interest arises, the Council member(s) should in this way indicate on the ballot; Council will be regarded as concluded without his/her/their participation in regard to that/those particular candidate(s).

16.Scrutineers of the ballot shall be the President and the Chief Executive Officer.

17.Announccment of the fortunate candidates shall be made to Council as promptly as the ballots have been holded Those elected shall be informed immediately. All members and the pres shall be advised of the rises of the election as at so early an hour as conveniently possible.