Mastering Capital Allocation
This course explores the critical topic of capital allocation—how CEOs and their strategic partners decide to deploy cash within the business. As the primary driver of shareholder returns, capital allocation plays a central role in a company’s long-term success. Understanding the tools, strategies, and decision-making process behind capital allocation is essential for any finance leader.
You’ll learn how to source capital, evaluate competing uses for cash, and make decisions that align with shareholder value creation. From reinvestment to share buybacks, this course provides practical insights to help you support your CEO in making informed, high-impact capital decisions.
CPA, CA Leadership
Blair is a seven-time CFO, a director, and an educator at Executive Finance Partners - a professional development and executive coaching firm for financial professionals and executives. He also serves as a corporate director and audit committee chair of publicly listed companies: Terravest Industries and Clarke Inc. He is also the Board Treasurer of the Devour Food & Film Festival and serves on various committees of CPA Nova Scotia. Blair is the author of The Illiterate Executive: An Executive’s Handbook for Mastering Financial Acumen.
Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.
Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.
