Accounting standards are becoming so complicated, says Philip Maguire, CPA, CA, that we have lost the ability to explain the results

Canada’s natural assets could one day be reflected in government financial statements, says Bailey Church of KPMG, as the tides of accounting are shifting

Now is the time for Canada to advance tax literacy, as both authorities and society as a whole can strengthen democracy and build a more informed public

While the tax could be replaced by an equally effective tool, its repeal increases uncertainty about Canada’s ability to support climate change mitigation

From uncertainty to compliance to staffing, Chartered Professional Accountants say their stress is not offset by client appreciation, reports Dean Blachford

Accounting Professor Douglas A Stuart and Indigenous Business Professor Andrew J. Karesa on supporting Indigenous business during a trade war and tariffs

Allan Lanthier explains how some Canadian corporations have redomiciled to the United States and why there may be more to come unless changes are made

"If you’re a billionaire, you don’t need it," said one Canadian billionaire. "I don’t have to come to the United States to invest in the United States."

Chartered Professional Accountants may be enveloped into privilege if they are the client’s agent, pursuant to an agency agreement, explains Dean Blachford

A Canadian accounting professor explains that development relationships like USAID are shaped by both the interests of donors and those of the recipients.

Like Canada, Australia created a digital tax that US President Trump could deem as discriminatory or extraterritorial, and subject to retaliatory tariffs

Accounting standards have focused on the balance sheet, says Philip Maguire, CPA, CA, yet the effort to match book value to market value has been a failure

A progressive tax that punished the wealthy for their outsized emissions would be more palatable than a flat steering tax that hurts low-income Canadians

To integrate further through appeasement with a country that has rejected the rule of law would be to surrender Canadian sovereignty to the United States

Accounting research shows that the Big Four, when engaged as compensation consultants, appear to uphold more rigorous standards than smaller counterparts

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

Free trade deals with regular renegotiation requirements such as CUSMA put smaller economies under pressure to lose leverage and surrender policy autonomy

Many Canadians don’t realize that religious properties are tax exempt, however, this privilege is increasingly being debated as organized religion recedes

Canadian taxpayers may be sacrificing long-term savings for short-term investments due to heuristic language that simplifies complex decisions

In the third of a three-part series on the Gaudreau case before the FCA in Quebec, Brian Studniberg of Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP concludes his thoughts on situational forms of privilege between tax accountants and their clients

Reducing taxes and costs to businesses and consumers in the short term is raising questions about the Ontario government’s long term fiscal responsibility

Despite scathing public inquiry reports about the PwC Australia tax consulting scandal, it would take decades to reduce government reliance on consultants

Allan Lanthier is unconvinced by the reasoning in a recent Tax Court of Canada decision involving a Canadian-controlled private corporation and the BVI

In the second of a three-part series on the Gaudreau case before the FCA in Quebec, Brian Studniberg of Henein Hutchison Robitaille LLP examines the settings in which an accountant’s work product could be protected by legal privilege

Taxpayers are on the hook for an economically disastrous Faustian bargain that will burden future generations of Canadians as it contributes to climate chaos