Desautels Receives $500,000 Accounting Gift from RSM Richter Chamberland

Montreal Firm Boosts Education in Tough Economic Times:

Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill Receives $500,000 from RSM Richter Chamberland to support Accounting Education

Montreal-based RSM Richter Chamberland, an enterprise that has grown to become one of Canada’s largest independent accounting and business advisory firms, is committing $500,000 to support top students, lecturers and professors in accounting at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University:

• RSM Richter Chamberland Accounting Lecturers  Fund – to attract  world-renown lecturers and support innovation in the accounting program;
• RSM Richter Chamberland Accounting Teaching Fellow Award- to retain and reward the best accounting teachers;
• RSM Richter Chamberland Scholarship in Accounting - to recognize and promote the importance of academic achievement of 2 outstanding undergraduate students enrolled in the major of accounting.

“This is a particularly remarkable gesture on behalf of RSM Richter Chamberland given today’s uncertain economic times,” says Peter Todd, Dean of The Desautels Faculty of Management. “This gift strengthens the bond between RSM Richter Chamberland and ourselves and will help boost our already strong Accounting programs. With this kind of support, we can continue to innovate and provide our extremely bright students with the best accounting education in North America.” 

RSM Richter is the success story of a Montreal-based mid-sized business that set itself apart. Founded in 1926, RSM Richter is deeply rooted in the Quebec business community with offices also in Toronto and Calgary. Over the past few years, besides increasing its presence within Anglophone and emerging markets, such as multicultural business sectors, the firm has further developed its network within Quebec-based francophone companies.

A thank-you luncheon is being hosted today by the Desautels Faculty of Management, in the presence of top RSM Richter executives Stephen Rosenhek (McGill BA’82) and Robert Zittrer (McGill DPA’85), among others.

About RSM Richter Chamberland

In 1926, Cecil Usher, a young graduate of McGill University, joined his friend, William Richter, to form an accounting practice in downtown Montréal. Today, over eighty years later, RSM Richter is the ninth largest accounting and consulting firm in Canada. With over 60 partners and 550 professionals, we now have offices in Calgary, Montreal and Toronto servicing clients across Canada and throughout the United States.

In December 2008, RSM Richter merged with accounting firm Chamberland Hodge. Since then, the Audit and Tax Divisions are known as RSM Richter Chamberland.

About Desautels

Since 1906, the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University has continued to be one of the top international business schools in the world. The faculty emphasizes the integration of teaching, research and practice, and applies a multi-disciplinary, holistic approach to identifying innovative opportunities and solving problems. Desautels’ exacting standards, innovative approach and historic reputation for excellence continue to attract the finest students, the most prominent professors and the most demanding recruiters from around the globe.

Education choices at Desautels include all management disciplines, with programs at the undergraduate, masters, doctorate, and executive levels. In addition, Desautels offers many interdisciplinary options with medicine, law and other faculties.

About McGill

McGill University, founded in Montreal, Que., in 1821, is Canada’s leading post-secondary institution. It has two campuses, 11 faculties, 10 professional schools, 300 programs of study and more than 34,000 students. McGill attracts students from more than 160 countries around the world. Almost half of McGill students claim a first language other than English – including 6,000 francophones – with more than 6,400 international students making up almost 20 per cent of the student body.