Selling a business to an employee ownership trust: the tax memo can be right and the deal can still fail

The $10-million capital gains exemption is permanent. Your client's control over the company it applies to ends the afternoon he signs, explains Koby Smutylo

The salary-dividend decision after the small business rate cut

In part two of his two-part series, Bashar Qawas of Better Books Canada delves deeper into the unevenness of small business rate cuts in Ontario and Quebec

A short history of welcome mats: How Alberta courted two types of newcomers on the grounds of demand and economic impact

Will Alberta’s tradeoff of tax breaks for tax revenue for AI data centres end like the Alberta is Calling campaign — far too successful for its well-being?

Selling a business to an employee ownership trust: the tax memo can be right and the deal can still fail

The $10-million capital gains exemption is permanent. Your client's control over the company it applies to ends the afternoon he signs, explains Koby Smutylo

The salary-dividend decision after the small business rate cut

In part two of his two-part series, Bashar Qawas of Better Books Canada delves deeper into the unevenness of small business rate cuts in Ontario and Quebec

A short history of welcome mats: How Alberta courted two types of newcomers on the grounds of demand and economic impact

Will Alberta’s tradeoff of tax breaks for tax revenue for AI data centres end like the Alberta is Calling campaign — far too successful for its well-being?

Accounting News

Practice

Philanthropists critical of Nakba exhibit donated $4.8M to groups later sanctioned

Canada Revenue Agency has revoked tax status of many Canadian charitable organizations academic asserts are “largely just conduits” for overseas funding
Profession

Deloitte used AI in $1.6M government report, but watchdog CPA NL says it can’t investigate

Chartered Professional Accountants of Newfoundland and Labrador cannot investigate Deloitte Inc., the legal entity that produced flawed AI consulting report
Profession

PCAOB finally publishes first audit inspection reports of Canadian accounting firms this year

Deloitte Canada and De Visser Gray LLP receive excellent reviews from defanged US audit watchdog under deregulatory pressure from Trump Administration
Profession

Canadian Public Accountability Board censures EY Canada over answer sharing on professional development courses

Settlement between Canadian audit watchdog CPAB and Ernst & Young LLP brings closure to cheating scandals involving three of the Big Four accounting firms
Profession

Regional accounting firms post good results in recent CPAB audit inspection reports

Audit watchdog Canadian Public Accountability Board posts 2025 inspection reports for Baker Tilly WM LLP, Crowe MacKay LLP, DMCL LLP, RSM Canada LLP
Practice

Audit watchdog inspection report reveals numbers behind continued expansion of MNP LLP

Homegrown national accounting firm shows no sign of slowing down expansion through multiple mergers with small firms and agencies across Canada in 2026

AI Digital Employees in Accounting: The next stage of automation

Future accounting teams could include local accountants, offshore accounting professionals, automation and AI Digital Employees, explains Ryan Morris.





From transactional to trust: How Canadian accountants are redefining their role

The Scotiabank Accountant Banking Program addresses three barriers that prevent Canadian accountants from growing their practices, explains Pouya Zangeneh