Jeff Buckstein

Journalist

Jeff Buckstein

Jeff Buckstein, CPA, CGA, is an Ottawa-based business journalist.

Recent Blog Posts By Jeff Buckstein

How SME accounting practitioners are spending the summer

In the first of a two-part series, we find that workflow management projects are a major focus of firms in the summer

Canada's Activist Auditors General III: A political force?

Canada's Auditor General, Michael Ferguson, explains how the Office of the Auditor General selects its audits

Canada's Activist Auditors General II: The trouble with the activist label

Carol Bellringer. Michael Ferguson. Bonnie Lysyk. What the three most recognized auditors general in Canada think of the activist label

Special Report: Canada's activist auditors general

Accountants admire them. Politicians fear them. The public trusts them. But are Canada's auditors general going too far?

CPA with Type 1 diabetes pleased with CRA disability tax credit reversal

Everett Colby of Colby McGeachy Professional Corporation explains the real cost of diabetes

CRA explains reversal on disability tax credit restrictions for diabetics

A tacit acknowledgment of unintended consequences, says Diabetes Canada

CRA reverses disability tax credit restrictions for diabetics

Canadian accountants critical of Canada Revenue Agency DTC policy decisions

Teck Resources: The Best in Sustainability Reporting

Teck Resources won top global honours for its sustainability reporting in 2017

Integrated reporting creating new opportunities for CPA profession

Non-traditional reporting is aligning with the overall disclosure controls of companies today, says KPMG

Financial Reporting Excellence in a World of Voluntary Reporting

CPA Canada’s 2017 Awards of Excellence in Corporate Reporting

The 21st century appeal of integrated reporting

KPMG says voluntary reporting is growing. The positives outweigh the negatives, says IFAC's deputy chair

The Final Chapter of Sears Canada: Financials, Bankruptcy

Jeff Buckstein takes a last look at the reasons behind the retailer's demise

How the digital age drove Sears Canada into bankruptcy

Sears Canada paid a hefty price by being late to the online retail game

Why did Sears Canada go bankrupt?

A retailer stuck in the past. A strategy that did not work. A liquidation that never had to happen?

Practice Demographics: Recruiting the next accounting generation

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

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

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

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

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

Ask A CPA uses humour, history to sell profession

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

Canadian manufacturers nervous after 3rd round of NAFTA negotiations

Chartered Professional Accountants in Canadian manufacturing sector see labour, supply chain disruption

NOCLAR raises many questions from Canadian accountants

Chartered Professional Accountants weigh in on the challenges of complying with a new ethics standard

NOCLAR demands careful weighing by Canadian Accountants

New IESBA ethics standard addresses client confidentiality vs. public interest

Seismic Shift: Why SME firms across Canada are consolidating

As technology and demographics disrupt the accounting profession, insiders say SME firms are consolidating across Canada

U.S. reform of individual income tax could impact Canadian business

As the Trump administration prepares to reform the U.S. tax code, lower individual income tax rates could impact Canadian business

Proposed U.S. tax reform: clarifying the options

With proposed U.S. tax reform looming, we look at the options and their ramifications for Canadian business