高顿网校小编为您解答：What is continuing professional development?
 
　　Ans：Continuing professional development (CPD) is intended to maintain, enhance and broaden members’ relevant knowledge and skills to enable them to carry out their professional duties and responsibilities competently as Certified Public Accountants (CPA) throughout their career and thereby to strengthen public trust in the profession.
 
　　The cardinal principle of considering what are relevant CPD activities is whether such activities are relevant to an individual's work as a CPA. These learning activities should enhance and broaden the relevant knowledge and skills to enable a CPA to carry out his or her professional duties and responsibilities competently.
 
　　Individual training needs vary and the CPD scheme has been designed to reflect this by offering a wide spectrum of training activities which qualify for CPD hours. To meet the CPD requirements, members are free to choose activities relevant to their individual needs. Members may choose programmes offered by the Institute or other outside providers, so long as they consider such programmes suitable and relevant to their individual needs.
 
　　Having taken into consideration that many of our members are busy practitioners and frequent travellers, compliance with CPD requirements can be achieved by methods of learning other than classroom lecture-based methods. Examples are e-Learning; attending overseas accounting conferences/training; long distance learning courses and reading of professional journals and books.
 
　　Selection of CPD programmes should not be confined to those organized by the Institute as other relevant programmes/courses organized by outside providers are also recongised as CPD activities. The main consideration is whether such activity fulfils the cardinal principle as set out above.
 
　　In addition to education, practical experience, and training, CPD also includes learning and development activities, such as (a) coaching and mentoring, (b) networking, (c) observation, feedback, and reflection, and the (d) self-directed and unstructured gaining of knowledge.
 
　　高顿网校小编寄语：向着某一天终于要达到的那个终极目标迈步还不够，还要把每一步骤看成目标，使它作为步骤而起作用。