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Auditors Beware: How Lavender v Miller Bernstein increased audit liability

Investors can rely on a report without ever seeing it, says professional liability lawyer James Lane
Business

Canadian angle to record revenues reported by KPMG International

Accounting firm now headed by Canadian Bill Thomas, praised for diversity promotion
Business

CRA tightens voluntary disclosures, targets offshore tax avoidance

The Canada Revenue Agency is starting a new, limited Voluntary Disclosures Program
Business

Morneau, Liberals head for the off-ramp, clarify new tax rules

Finance Minister has clarified rules around so-called "income sprinkling" and "off ramps"
Business

SEC appoints chair, board members to accounting watchdog

Appointments radically change the composition, outlook of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
Opinion

Clutter to Clarity: Template financial statement tools are missing the mark

Bridget Noonan of Clearline Consulting takes a hard look at the templates used by Canadian accounting practitioners
Business

PwC Toronto opens doors to new Digital Experience Centre

New innovation hub a concrete example of hyper-competitive technology consulting business
Business

U.S. Senate Republicans pass massive tax bill, lower corporate rate impacts Canada

Lowering the U.S. corporate tax rate to 20 per cent will impact Canadian companies
Profession

Global firm RSM shakes up Canadian accounting, buys Collins Barrow Toronto

Global accounting firm RSM has shaken up the mid-tier market in Canadian accounting
Business

SEC's Kronforst, a non-GAAP metrics fighter, leaving in January

Chief accountant of division of corporate finance leaving after four years in post
Profession

Audit regulator reports fewer inspection findings for Big Four in 2017

Auditors must watch for pervasive risk of management bias
David J. Rotfleisch

What are the ethical obligations of a tax professional?

Tax Lawyer David J. Rotfleisch on the ethical obligations of accountants and lawyers in practice
Profession

Practice Demographics: Recruiting the next accounting generation

What is the accounting profession and its public practice firms doing to address its demographic crisis?
Profession

Canadian Accounting Demographics: Who will succeed today’s CPA practitioners?

Is the accounting profession doing enough to bring CPAs into public practice?
Profession

Demographic crisis in Canadian accounting: Is practice still attractive?

As older CPAs look to transition their accounting firms, they're finding the profession has lost its appeal
Profession

Is there a demographic crisis looming in Canadian accounting?

The first of a three-part series on the greying of Canadian accountants in public practice
Business

CRA goes fishing for PayPal users on hook for taxes

The Canada Revenue Agency is looking to catch PayPal-registered businesses not declaring income or tax
David J. Rotfleisch

Trouble in Paradise: The end of tax haven secrecy

Cyberattacks on tax haven law firms means client records are no longer confidential
Profession

Canadian accountants prepare for reporting key audit matters

Canada will require auditors to report significant new information in audit reports
Business

Paradise Papers tax leak will further damage credibility of Trudeau, Morneau

Massive leak reveals tax avoidance schemes in upper echelon of Canadian politics
David J. Rotfleisch

Bill Morneau’s backpedalling recalls past tax debacles

Tax lawyer David J. Rotfleisch says the tax reversal would have likely occurred in a U.S. scenario as well
Business

Against NAFTA backdrop, CPA Canada renews trilateral MRA with U.S. and Mexico

Spectre of losing labour mobility looms large despite cross-border career opportunities
Profession

The five things accounting, law and recruitment firms get wrong about online content

Fix these five marketing failings and stop losing potential clients and revenue
Profession

Ask A CPA uses humour, history to sell profession

New campaign positions Chartered Professional Accountants as being on the right side of change
Business

History Repeating: How Bill Morneau blew the Liberals' chance at tax reform

If only Justin Trudeau had learned from the 1981 political disaster of Pierre Trudeau