Standards

Thought Leaders

Cineplex’s $38.9 million fine is a wake-up call about corporate sustainability practices

Accounting professor Douglas A. Stuart asserts the Competition Bureau’s fine for drip pricing practices is just one example of sustainability mismanagement
Career

What's wrong (and right) about professional development for accountants

Imagine four accountants on divergent career paths. Do current continuing professional development models serve both professionals and the public interest?
Profession

DMCL continues PCAOB audit inspection results with lower deficiency rates

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in the United States releases audit inspection results for Vancouver-based Dale Matheson Carr Hilton LaBonte LLP
Profession

US audit watchdog censures, fines Canadian accounting firms Crowe MacKay, Grant Thornton

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in the United States fines two Canadian auditors for violation of audit committee communications rules in audits
Practice

Second American accounting firm penalized by CPA Ontario over unlicensed audit work

The prosecution of BF Borgers and its principal by the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario closes another chapter in the Canadian cannabis story
Profession

Two more accounting firms censured by Canadian audit watchdog thus far in 2024

Canadian Public Accountability Board prohibits Kingston Ross Pasnak and Macias Gini & O’Connell from accepting new medium and high-risk reporting issuers
Profession

US audit watchdog releases audit inspection reports for national accounting firms Deloitte Canada, MNP LLP

Is audit quality on the upswing in Canada? The US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board finds little fault in newly released Canadian audit inspections
Profession

BC accounting firm De Visser Gray censured and fined by US audit watchdog

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board notes repeated use of Canadian Professional Engagement Guide (PEG) audit programs for US audits
Practice

As Big Four foreign firms punished for exam cheating, PwC Canada fines put into perspective

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board hit KPMG Netherlands with a record US$25-million civil civil penalty for widespread improper answer sharing
Profession

Two of the Big Four accounting firms failed their audit inspections in 2023 — but we don’t know who

The Canadian Public Accountability Board says it will take at least two years before more transparency is provided as to which firms fail and which succeed
Thought Leaders

PwC Australia ethics breach: Differences in Canadian and Australian CPA regulation

Though similiar, there are important differences between Australian and Canadian professional rules of conduct explains accounting professor George Gonzalez
Practice

CPA Ontario fines Deloitte Canada partners over backdating of audit working papers

Five Deloitte partners to pay $40k each in fines and costs for manually overriding computer clocks to backdate audit working papers in multiple engagements