DeFreitas & Associates Moves Offices in Toronto
DeFreitas & Associates (D&A) is proud to announce its move into new offices in Toronto at The United Centre in North York. The firm’s permanent address is:
DeFreitas & Associates
The United Centre
255 Duncan Mill Road
Suite 409
Toronto, Ontario
CANADA M3B 3H9
Stan DeFreitas, D&A Associate Consultant, said that “we are delighted with this move as it came at exactly the right time. We have finished up the year strong with a new office in Dominica and now a great location for our existing and prospective clients to visit us in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).”
D & A is grateful for all the ongoing support of its clients in Canada and looks to continue its provision of professional services for a very long time to come.
DeFreitas & Associates gives presentation on the Importance of Financial Statements in SVG
At the request of the RBTT Bank in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), DeFreitas & Associates (D&A) was proud to give a presentation on the Importance of Financial Statements to both clients and staff members of the Bank at its offices in Kingstown on September 15, 2011.
Stanley DeFreitas and Stan DeFreitas, were the D&A presenters to a receptive group. D&A, through its 4 offices, is committed to educating individuals and businesses alike on the importance of timely and properly prepared financial reports so that users of the information can make critical decisions.
The firm would like to thank the management and staff of RBTT Bank in SVG for inviting us to do this presentation.
DeFreitas & Associates Continues OECS Expansion with Two New Associates
DeFreitas & Associates is pleased to announce that both Gerald Smith and Dwight Scotland have joined the firm as Associate Consultants. The firm views these additions as a further strengthening of its capacity to service new clients, particularly in the OECS.
Gerald Smith is a Chartered Accountant of the Eastern Caribbean with over twenty-five years of public accounting experience and possesses a wealth of knowledge from various engagements over his career.
Dwight Scotland is a Business Consultant who has extensive experience in accounting, management information systems and finance, namely in the Dominica credit union sector.
Stanley DeFreitas, Managing Practitioner, stated that “we are satisfied with our new team members and what they bring to the table in terms of skill sets and experience. We look forward to their contributions to D&A.”
DeFreitas & Associates is a full service professional firm with offices in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Canada, Belize and Dominica.
DeFreitas & Associates Participates in the ICAEC-IFRS Foundation Workshop
DeFreitas & Associates (D&A) was a proud participant at the ICAEC-IFRS Foundation Workshop held at the Sir Cecil Jacobs Auditorium at the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) in St. Kitts & Nevis from May 16 to 20, 2011.
Accounting practitioners from across the OECS were in attendance for a workshop that was aimed at not only strengthening the Institute of Chartered Accountants of the Eastern Caribbean (ICAEC) but also enlightening participants of new International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS’s) for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME’s).
Stan DeFreitas, Associate Consultant, who represented D&A at the workshop commented that “the workshop was informative and valuable to all practitioners as new standards will have an impact on the level and quality of work we provide for clients in the future.”
Other collaborating institutions for this workshop were The World Bank and the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation. D&Awould like to commend the ECCB and its staff for coordinating a first-class event at its facilities.
DeFreitas & Associates Opens New Office in Dominica
DeFreitas & Associates (D&A) is proud to announce the opening of its new office in the Commonwealth of Dominica. The opening of this office is part of the firm’s expansion plan within the Eastern Caribbean or otherwise known as the OECS sub-region.
According to Stan DeFreitas, D&A Associate Consultant, ” The Dominica office will not only offer the same breadth and scope of services to businesspersons and individuals alike but will also deliver these services at the high level that our existing clients are accustomed to at our other offices.”
In addition, the firm is the representative for Education For Advancement (EFA) in Dominica. EFA is a company that makes access to global education a local process by partnering with internationally accredited universities to promote and support a range of over 150 diploma and degree qualifications.
The new office contact information is:
- 14 Church Street
- Box 2254
- Roseau
- Commonwealth of Dominica
- Tel: (767) 440-6756
DeFreitas & Associates Sponsors Event for Black History Month
DeFreitas & Associates’ North American Affiliated office has proudly been listed as one of the corporate sponsors of an event put on by Party People Production, a Toronto-based event planning company to finance the purchase of tickets for at-risk youths, 10-17 years of age, to attend a National Basketball Association (NBA) Toronto Raptors basketball game on behalf of the Keegan Allen Trust.
The goal of the event was to make attending the Toronto Raptors game sometime in March of 2011 a reality for approximately 150-180 at-risk youths accompanied by 10 -15 chaperons. For most of these youths it will be their first time attending a basketball game and visiting the Air Canada Centre (ACC).
A Black History Month Essay Writing Contest, sponsored in part by Party People Production, is the selection process that was used to determine the kids who won the opportunity to attend the game. The contest was made available to several after school programs across the GTA as well to all members of the Tropicana Youth Service Group of Scarborough and coordinated by Miss Carol Allen (Keegan Allen Trust).
Information about SYRC
The Scarborough Youth Resource Centre (SYRC) is a division of Tropicana Community Services located in the Scarborough Town Centre Mall. Recently celebrating its 15th year anniversary, the SYRC operates successfully as a drop-in service and is dedicated to providing a safe space and building a sense of community for youth aged 12 to 24, as well as offering a range of activities, programs and resources that promote opportunities for personal development, employment and empowerment.
Last year, the SYRC served 8,500 youth who accessed the drop-in services (phone, fax, and computers) and the core programs that focus on self-expression through peer support, personal development and dance. Tropicana Community Services is a United Way Member Agency.
Keegan’s Involvement with SYRC and Tropicana
Keegan Allen was senselessly shot at an all-ages dance event at the Hungarian House Cultural Centre on Monday October 8, 2007. At just 18 years old, he passed away the following day from his injuries.
Keegan, who adopted the nickname “Speckz” because he wore eyeglasses, was a popular young man in Grade 12 who loved dancing, video games and computers.
Since early childhood, Keegan attended Tropicana’s day camps, after school programs, tutoring classes and in 2006, completed the 40 hour community services requirement that is necessary for Ontario students to graduate. He did it by helping out at the SYRC after school. He had planned to study video game design or computer technology upon graduation.
SYRC’s Youth Participation
Since Keegan Allen’s untimely passing in October 2007, several events spearheaded by SYRC youth have been held to commemorate and celebrate his life while providing inspiring non-violence messages. On the one year anniversary of his death, the month of October was dedicated to Keegan with various activities such as poetry and video game days, ending with an event called The Speckz Effect in which several talented youth, most of whom were his peers, expressed their talents through song, dance and drama. About 150 youth, community members and the media were in attendance.
In March 2011, the SYRC youth had the opportunity to attend a Toronto Raptors Game.
Our firm is has been associated with this annual initiative for two years and hopes that the youth truly enjoyed the basketball game at the ACC.
DeFreitas & Associates featured on TaxTips.ca
DeFreitas & Associates’ North American affiliated office has been listed as a service provider both internationally and within Canada on TaxTips.ca.
TaxTips.ca is an online source of tax and financial information with its goal to be a reference site for Canadians to easily understand tax, financial, and related information.
DeFreitas & Associates
3219 Yonge Street, Suite 352, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M4N 3S1
Telephone: (647) 722-5442 Fax: (416) 352-7519
DeFreitas & Associates Offers Conference Room Facilities for Rent
We take this opportunity to wish all of you a healthy and prosperous 2011.
We are also proud to announce the availability of Conference Room Facilities for rent at our corporate centre.
Our facilities are reasonably priced and can comfortably seat 25 persons with the full complement of state-of-the-art conferencing technology.
Our venue is ideal for business meetings, seminars, training sessions and other private functions for the following reasons:
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more than adequate parking available;
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complete audio-video (A/V) equipment available upon request (i.e. podium, projector, laptop, high resolution screen, whiteboard);
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high speed internet access available;
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clerical and/or administrative support at a minimal cost;
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fully air conditioned facilities;
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kitchen facilities available upon request.
We look forward to being of service of you in the near future.
Best Regards,
DEFREITAS & ASSOCIATES
Chartered Accountants, Management Consultants & Business Advisors
Griffith Corporate Centre, Suite 200
P.O. Box 324, Beachmont
Kingstown,
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Tel: (784) 451-2065
Fax: (784) 457-2160
Email: info@defreitas-consulting.com OR defreitas@vincysurf.com
www.defreitas-consulting.com
DeFreitas & Associates becomes EFA Representative in SVG
DeFreitas & Associates (D&A) is proud to announce it is now the representative of Education for Advancement (EFA) in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG).
DeFreitas & Associates is a full service professional firm providing a wide array of accounting, tax assurance and management and business advisory services to individuals, business enterprises and government boards and agencies. The firm is headquartered in SVG with affiliated offices in Latin and Central America and North America.
EFA (www.efalearning.com) was created to make access to global education a local process. EFA has partnered with internationally accredited universities in the USA and the UK to support a range of over 100 qualifications. From its offices in Florida, EFA supports a dedicated team in locations throughout the Caribbean. EFA offers students a range of support services to make studying by distance learning, a cost effective and viable alternative to studying in a classroom. Through EFA, many more persons are now actively pursuing their educational goals and enjoying successful careers.
According to S. DeFreitas, one of D&A’s Associate Consultants ”we believe that our firm’s representation of EFA in SVG will not only provide a professional image for EFA but enable our firm to highlight the merits of EFA’s educational offerings to individuals, business enterprises and government departments and agencies and also present to them how education through distance learning can not only enhance careers but build capacity in our country.”
The new SVG EFA office is now open for business at the Griffith Corporate Centre in Beachmont, Kingstown.
DeFreitas appears on Up Next! with Jerry George
Stanley DeFreitas, Managing Partner of DeFreitas & Associates was a guest on the St. Vincent and the Grenadines television program called Up Next!
This show was hosted by Jerry George and the central discussion was concerning valuations and its impact on our personal and business financial positions.
The program was originally broadcasted in October 2009.
