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Forms

Please check out our Licensing section for a full description of the practitioner licensing, firm registration, extra-provincial licensing, incorporation and limited liability partnerships processes.

Firm Name Change

  • Form 1: Application for Approval of Firm Name Change 
  • Form 1B: Application for Consent to Change Corporate Name

Public Practice Licence

  • Form 2D: Assisting Accountant – Appointment and Consent Form
  • Form 3: Application for New Public Practice Licence  
  • Form 3B: Request to Amend Category of Public Practice Licence
  • Form 3C: Request for Cancellation of a Public Practice Licence

Firm Registration

  • Form 2: Application for Firm Registration
  • Form 2A: Application for Authorization of Practising Office (a separate Form 2A must be completed for each office location in BC).
  • Form 3D: Request for Cancellation of a Public Practice Firm Registration, an Authorized Practising Office and/or a Professional Accounting Corporation Permit

Incorporation

  • Form 1A: Application for Consent to Corporation Name; 
  • Form 1B: Application for Consent to Corporation Name Change
  • Form 4:  Application for Professional Accounting Corporation Permit
  • Form 4A:  Certificate of Solicitor

Limited Liability Partnership

  • Form 5:  Application for Authorization to Register as a Limited Liability Partnership

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