Profession

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Audit regulator reports fewer inspection findings for Big Four in 2017

Auditors must watch for pervasive risk of management bias
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
Profession

Canadian accountants prepare for reporting key audit matters

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

Terry LeBlanc, FCPA, FCGA, named chair, board of directors, CPA Canada

Amanda Whitewood, FCPA, FCMA, named vice-chair, Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada
Profession

Is the CPA-designated accounting professor endangered?

In a two-part series, a new study tells a cautionary tale for Canadian accounting academia
Profession

NOCLAR raises many questions from Canadian accountants

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

NOCLAR demands careful weighing by Canadian Accountants

New IESBA ethics standard addresses client confidentiality vs. public interest
Profession

MNP Leads All Canadian Audit Firms in 2016 New Clients

PwC leads in new clients by market cap and audit fees, says Audit Analytics
Profession

Ethics and trust in a digital age

New ACCA report offers scenarios and solutions to digital ethical challenges
David J. Rotfleisch

VDP Consultation: Read David Rotfleisch's submission to National Revenue Minister

Consultation on changes to the Voluntary Disclosures Program has ended
Profession

Meltdown Under: How a governance controversy turned CPA Australia into a national scandal

Does it hold any lessons for Canadian accountants?
Book Reviews

How the Fourth Industrial Revolution will impact accounting

Review: The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum
Profession

CPA Canada building on sustainability, climate change initiatives

National accounting body supports Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project as part of the Prince of Wales's Charities Foundation
Profession

Recent news from Canada's accounting standards boards

A proposed new standard on public private partnerships from the PSAB leads off our updates
Profession

CPA Canada supports globally consistent climate-related financial reporting

Even as the Trump administration dismisses global warming, an international task force has laid the groundwork for consistent global reporting standards
Profession

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
Thought Leaders

Why A.I. scares auditors

In part two of "Catching up with Baruch Lev," the author of "The End of Accounting" tells a story about the transformative potential of artificial intelligence to disrupt the audit profession through machine learning
Thought Leaders

Catching up with Professor Baruch Lev

"The End of Accounting" author says his book has resonated because accounting and financial reporting no longer meets the needs of investors or CFOs
Profession

Mississauga firm makes case for flat accounting fees

Phoenix Management in Mississauga implemented a flat fee system three years ago. Founder LaMar Van Dusen says his business model is a success