When the scholars "get it," there's...

When the scholars "get it," there's no greater feeling for a teacher, according to Warren Dueck CA, an instructor in American taxation for the Chartered Accountants of BC's Professional progressive growth Program.

"It's very rewarding to at hand material to a class and earn good response and dialogue," Dueck explains. "That means I've followed I've been able to obtain the material across in a way they understand."

Dueck has written several of the courses forward American tax for the Institute's PD Program and generally teaches seven titles in the series. an of the courses are half or filled days and one is an Executive Breakfast. The US Tax Foundation series is a three-- and-a-half day course covering US personal and corporate tax information in a modular format. He also co-present a course about the tax implications of immigration to or from the US, and teaches US Tax 101 which provides an overview of business taxation in the US. It has been a popular course for CAs in industry, especially those considering expansion to the US.

Dueck began teaching at Seattle Pacific University where he was an adjunct professor in the early 1980 Prior to that he had also taught in-house while working for Peat Marwick (now KPMG) in Seattle from 1980 to 1984

"I erect I really liked teaching," he says. "It's gayety to interact with people, and it can be challenging, too. If you have to explain something to a arrange of people, you have to first thoroughly understand it yourself. That makes teaching what we practice a great way to stay current"

Born in Chilliwack and raised in Abbotsford, Dueck attended Briercrest Bible community in Caronport, Saskatchewan, for pair years in the mid-1970s. The basketball team that he captained at association won the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association championship in 1977 He later transferred to Seattle Pacific University, graduating in 1979 with an undergraduate quality in religion, and, he says, "a heavy dose of accounting courses."

In 1980 Dueck complet a graduate order in accounting at the Wharton teach at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia before returning to Seattle to work for Peat's. He earned his CPA designation in Washington State in 1981

"I left Peat's Seattle office in 1984 to revert to Vancouver to work in the family business, which is international real estate development" he explains. "After four years away, I knew I wanted to be back in public practice, likewise I joined the Vancouver Peat Marwick office in 1988"

Dueck mov to Ernst & Young in 1990 as the first US tax partner in the firm and obtained his CA designation in 1991 He was a partner with Ernst & Young until 1998 when he struck on the outside on his Own.

He's also used his teaching skills to coach minor hockey soccer and basketball. He l his oldest son's midget hockey team to a second-place finish in Greater Vancouver. He is generally the coach of his son's grade nine basketball team at Hugh Boyd Secondary institute in Richmond. The team's mid-season record is 29 and 5 with a entire 10-0 record for league play, Dueck reports.

"Teaching in the PD program has given me the chance to unravel my teaching skills and to overwhelm that fear we all have of speaking in public," he says. "It is same empowering to conquer that fear and learning to address an audience is always useful."

Copyright Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia Apr 2001

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