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Profession
7 ways to protect yourself legally when preparing engagement letters
Limit your legal liability through your engagement letter, says professional liability lawyer James Lane
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Business
The Final Chapter of Sears Canada: Financials, Bankruptcy
Jeff Buckstein takes a last look at the reasons behind the retailer's demise
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Business
How the digital age drove Sears Canada into bankruptcy
Sears Canada paid a hefty price by being late to the online retail game
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Business
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?
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Management
Business Analytics for Chartered Professional Accountants
Guest blogger David Elsner on the growing role of data analytics in business
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Technology
How CPAs can fight phishing fraud
What can practice and management CPAs learn from the MacEwan University cybercrime?
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Technology
Five internal controls to prevent a MacEwan phishing fraud
These basic internal accounting controls could have easily stopped a $12m fraud says CPA professor
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Management
Forecasting: Why accountants should get it approximately right
The King of KPIs, David Parmenter, on fast, not perfect, forecasting
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Management
The five mistakes accounting leaders make in setting KPIs
The King of KPIs, David Parmenter, says KPIs often fail to deliver on their potential
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Strategy
Taking the Lead in Enterprise Risk Management
Bill Wesioly on five steps to convincing key decision-makers to invest in ERM
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Profession
Meltdown Under: How a governance controversy turned CPA Australia into a national scandal
Does it hold any lessons for Canadian accountants?
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Culture
Embracing Employee Entrepreneurs
Gavin Rouble of the 2% Factor on how leaders can sculpt a great workplace culture from a new generation
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Book Reviews
Working with Difficult People
Handling the ten types of problem people without losing your mind
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Business
Part Three: Pensions, planes & profits (profitability)
CFO of the Year Michael Rousseau discusses the procurement strategies behind Air Canada's profitability
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Business
Part Two: Pensions, planes & profits (the EETC market)
In the second of a three-part series, CFO of the Year Michael Rousseau details the financial strategy behind the national airline's rebound
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Business
Part One: Pensions, planes & profits (pension deficits)
In the first of a three part-series, CFO of the Year Michael Rousseau, CPA, CA, shares the management strategies that has Air Canada soaring once again
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Practice
Outlier: Bridgman & Durksen Chartered Accountants
How one small Ontario firm beat the odds and placed two students on the CFE National Honour Roll
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Merge Gupta-Sunderji
Five reasons why accountants make great leaders
Merge Gupta-Sunderji turns managers into great leaders. In this column, Merge gives five reasons why accountants make great leaders
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