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CPAB report card

Jun 01, 2008; Bellavance, Christian ... How well has the audit watchdog performed since its creation? Where is it going? The Canadian Public Accountability Board is five years old. The oversight body was created to "contribute to public confidence in the integrity of financial reporting of public companies in Canada by ...

Mailbox

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... MORE DIVERSITY NEEDED When I see the current population of CA students and younger CAs, I see a population that reflects the diversity that is so evident in Canada, yet when I flipped through the December 2007 issue of CAmagazine, I noted that approximately 93 % of advertisement images ...

No guts, no glory

Jun 01, 2008; Shoesmith, John ... Despite competing in the Triathlon World Championships in Vancouver, June 5 to 8 - not to mention the more than 50 triathlons he has raced in 17 years - Morris Shore doesn't consider himself a natural athlete. Instead, he calls himself a survivor. "It's about perseverance," says the 72-year-old ...

Toronto students win firm's video contest

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A five-person team from Toronto's York University took the top prize in an Ernst & Young video competition that asked students across North America to answer the question "Why professional services?" The team's three-minute submission, Meet Larry, humorously compares the futures of ...

CAs SPLIT ON FUTURE

Jun 01, 2008; Long, Paul ... Canadian executives are sharply divided in their outlook for the future, according to the QI 2008 CICA/RBC Business Monitor report. About half the CAs in senior leadership positions (CFO, CEO, etc.) interviewed for the report said their companies' revenue would suffer during a downturn ...

ASK AN EXPERT

Jun 01, 2008; Messmer, Max ... Q+A ARE PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING SITES USEFUL WHEN LOOKING FOR WORK? Maintaining and developing professional contacts has always been a vital job-search strategy, and networking websites are another vehicle for doing so. Here are some tips to make the most out of online ...

NUMBERS Game

Jun 01, 2008; Brearton, Steve ... A GR8 meeting Leaders of the US, Russia, France, Italy, Germany, the UK, Japan and Canada will gather in July for the G8 summit the 34th annual meeting of the world's major industrialized democracies 3 Number of women who have attended summits as leaders. Former British prime minister ...

Going Concern

Jun 01, 2008; Lombardi, Rosie ... JOHN BOBENIC, CA PRESIDENT & CEO MAXIM POWER CORP. COMPANY PROFILE: Started up in 1998, Maxim Power is a Calgary-based independent power producer (IPP) that acquires, develops, owns and operates mid-market power projects deemed too small or risky by larger utilities ...

Bits & Bites

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Insight, news + reports at a glance Cautionary tale on business sales When it comes to selling a business, Canadian entrepreneurs have a word of advice for their peers: do as I say, not as I did. In a Newport Partners survey of more than 100 Canadian business sellers, ...

Rethinking retirement

Jun 01, 2008; Tremblay, Monique ... It's official: the no-work, all-play concept of retirement is on the verge of extinction. According to Desjardins Financial security's latest retirement study, many baby boomers' golden years will probably include part- or full-time work, consulting or entrepreneurship. The study, ...

Advice for a flat world

Jun 01, 2008; Carroll, Jim ... A few years back, I posted an entry to my weblog titled, "What do you do after the world gets flat? Put a ripple in it!" My post came in response to the buzz surrounding the bestselling book The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman. Executives everywhere were scrambling to understand the impact of a ...

Is there magic in Web services?

Jun 01, 2008; Burns, Michael ... In last month's column, we looked at why it is so difficult to integrate different systems, whether they be inside or outside a company. Some of the problems, such as gaining access to data from different systems, can be solved using technology such as open databases. But when it comes to other ...

Canada's CAs renew mutual recognition agreement with US and Mexican counterparts

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Canada's CAs have renewed their Professional Mutual Recognition Agreement with the certified public accountants (CPA) in the US and Mexico's contadores publicos certiflcados (CPC). This accord is a five-year extension of the first-ever mutual recognition agreement among professional ...

Open letter from the CICA chair

Jun 01, 2008; Benedetti, Alain ... Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to tell you that CICA's Annual General Meeting is taking place in Regina on September 24, 2008. Our AGM provides an important opportunity for CICA's board and senior management to explain our strategy and report on our performance. More importantly, it ...

Preparing for the transition: CICA provides new guide to ISAs in Canada

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The CICA has prepared a downloadable reference guide entitled The CICA's Guide to ISAs in Canada to help financial statement auditors prepare for the transition to international standards on auditing (ISA). The Canadian Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AASB) will adopt clarified ...

Canada's CAs help businesses and investors assess the impact of climate change

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... For corporations, climate change is a business and shareholder value issue that involves strategy, risk management and financial performance. Companies need to address two key aspects of climate change. Mitigation is being employed to reduce the company's own greenhouse gas emissions ...

MAPP survey helps CA practices increase profits

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... All CA firms are encouraged to take part in the latest Managing a Public Practice (MAPP) survey, conducted by the CICA and the provincial institutes/ordre. This survey gathers information from a wide range of firms of various sizes and returns it to all participants in the form of benchmark data ...

Global experts share perspectives on IFRS

Jun 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The world's top standard setters shared their views on international accounting standards at the first International IFRS Conference-North America held in Toronto in April. The conference was jointly sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the International Accounting ...

CFO of the year

Jun 01, 2008; Brent, Paul ... Been there, done all that: that's why he's top financial officer Bruce Waterman, senior vice-president, finance and CFO of agricultural products giant Agrium Inc. and Financial Executives International Canada CFO of the Year, considers the diverse background he has assembled over a ...

From there TO HERE

Jun 01, 2008; Middlemiss, Jim ... In the five years since CPAB was created, it has no doubt helped audit firms operate at a stronger level. But is there room for improvement? Yes THE FINANCIAL SCANDALS AT SUCH FIRMS AS ENRON, WorldCom and Nortel hit the accounting profession like a thunderbolt out of the blue and ...