Member Spotlight
Sean Nicholson
Q. How long have you been a CAPPA member?
A. I have been a CAPPA member for around 20 years.
Q. Tell us a little bit about your history with CAPPA?
A. I started as a member when I first got in to the industry. I always felt very fortunate to get a job in PA so I got involved with CAPPA, first as an instructor at Mount Royal and SAIT and then moving to the Board as a way to give back to the profession. I started as Conference Director then I went to serve as Vice President, President and Past President. In 2015 I received my Lifetime Membership from CAPPA which I am very proud to be recognized for.
Q. What is your current role/company?
A. Currently I am the Manager, Production/Revenue Accounting at Crescent Point Energy.
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Denise Hartung
Q. How long have you been doing Production Accounting?
A. I began my career in Production Accounting July 1985. I remember it clearly as I moved from small town Rocky Mountain House to the big city of Calgary to take on a position as a clerk in the Production Accounting department with Amerada Hess Corporation. (I had no idea at the time what all was involved within the production accounting world)
Q. How did you come to choose this as your career?
A. I was working in Rocky Mountain House at the Amerada Ferrier Gas Plant as a receptionist/file clerk/purchase order, AFE administrator. My boyfriend was in Calgary and I knew I liked accounting so I had asked to be considered for a move to the Calgary office. Any department that dealt with numbers was okay with me. Lucky for me it was a role in the Production Accounting department that became available. Amerada transferred me to Calgary, during Stampede week July 1985. (On a side note – I married above mentioned boyfriend, July 1986, and we are looking forward to celebrating our 32nd anniversary in 2018)
Q. When did you get your Certificate in Production Accounting?
A. I completed my CAPPA certificate May 1988. I took it at Mount Royal College (now MRU) through the Faculty of Continuing Education and Extension. I was fortunate that my employer covered my costs to get my certification.
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Nancy Hadley
Q: When did you receive your Certificate in Production Accounting?
A: I received my certificate in the early 1990’s
Q: What is your current role and company?
A: I have been working at Crescent Point Energy for going on 10 years now and am currently the Royalty Supervisor
Q: Tell us what you most enjoy about your work?
A: I think what had originally attracted me to Production Accounting was that I needed to know and understand the process out in the field (how oil/gas is produced, etc), and then there is also the component of financial accounting. When you layer on gas cost allowance, royalties, 13 month adjustments, and all of the other off-shoots that relate to production accounting you have an unlimited amount of avenues you can pursue. Every day there is something different and I like that.
Q: How did you come to be in your current position?
A: Over the years I have always gravitated towards the royalty side of production accounting and the opportunity at Crescent Point presented itself and I jumped at the chance to work in royalties again.
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Pam Kvellestad
Q: When did you graduate from the CAPPA Certificate Program?
A: I graduated from the SAIT CAPPA program in April of 2013.
Q: Were you new to industry when you took the PA course?
A: Yes, I was very new. I had raised and homeschooled our children for the previous 12 years, and once our youngest was starting high school, my husband encouraged me to take the opportunity to go back to school as well. I hadn’t worked in almost twenty years prior to attending SAIT, so there was a big learning curve and adjustment. Oil & Gas was pretty foreign to me as well, because I had only worked in banking, and that was a LONG TIME AGO!!
Q: How did you come to choose a career in Production Accounting?
A: I had friends that were production accountants, and I knew that they had done quite well in the industry. I also have a love of numbers and had a bit of an accounting background already. Overall, it seemed like a natural fit for me.
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Cheryl Mahoney
Q: When did you receive your Certificate in Production Accounting?
A: I graduated in 1994
Q: Tell us a little bit about your history with CAPPA
A: As a member I first volunteered to be on the CAPPA education committee in the late nineties. After 2 years on the committee, I was nominated to the CAPPA board. I was elected to be the Education Director which I held for about 8 years. During that time we developed level 5; it was massive amounts of work. Ultimately this led me to teach at SAIT and MRU.
Q: Tell us about some of the ways you are currently involved with the work of CAPPA
A: I’m still a CAPPA instructor and sit on the Education Advisory Group with CAPPA.
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Amrit Dosanjh, CPA, CGA
Q. When did you receive your Certificate in Production Accounting?
A. 2014
Q. What is your current role/company?
A. PA System Conversion Analyst, Financial Acct & Controls – Operations Accounting at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.
Q. How does your understanding of Production Accounting help you in your work?
A. Knowing Production Accounting help’s me truly understand Oil and Gas accounting. I like to refer to Production Accounting as the “ground up”. In the last 5-6 years I have noticed that any Accountant who knows PA truly understands where the numbers come from – whether you work in Royalties, Tax, or Financial Reporting.
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Cindy Bourgaize
Q: How long have you been a Production Accountant (PA)?
A: I started doing Production Accounting in 1985. I was working at BMP Chart Service reading gas charts and had an opportunity to move into the PA group.
Q: What is your current role/company?
A: I presently work as a Senior Production Revenue Accountant for Perpetual Energy.
Q: What do you most enjoy about your current role?
A: It is the variety. From month to month I find that my job is never the same. I’m presented with the opportunity to be continually learning something new such as new rules, regulations or changes to my desk (properties).
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Val Pinard
Q: Tell us how long you have been a Production Accountant (PA)?
A: I have been a Production Accountant since 2007. I started as a Student at Talisman (now Repsol) right after I finished my CAPPA certificate.
Q: What is your current role/company?
A: I am a Senior Production Accountant for Husky Energy doing full cycle production accounting for a complex gas plant.
Q: Tell us what you most enjoy about your current role.
A: I love a desk with some complexities. I like the challenge of digging in and solve problems.
