BADBOY, yes, when I see a CGA on a resume I count that as a negative, compared to a CA or a CMA, which I would count as a positive. What is a lawyer going to have to say about that? That it is illegal to discriminate against someone on the basic of their designation? If you post a job on monster.com or something like that, you get literally thousands of resumes from around the world, most of them are wholly unqualified for the job. Part of the challenge is to efficiently weed through the volume and find the best ones to speak to. I, like everyone else, does that by applying my experiences with hiring, by looking for things on the resumes that corelate with good or bad hires I have made in the past. In my case, I have not been impressed with the CGAs that I have dealt with in the past, so I hold that against resumes with CGAs. Someone else might have had good experiences with CGAs, and therefore rate those applicants higher. There is nothing wrong with that, let alone illegal. You and I place different values on the CGA designation, but that does not make me wrong, I just have a different opinion than you. Maybe you and everyone else in the thread loves CGAs and wants to hire them, that does not mean I have to.