Jeff Buckstein
Journalist
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Jeff Buckstein, CPA, CGA, is an Ottawa-based business journalist.
Recent Blog Posts By Jeff Buckstein
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How SME accounting practitioners are spending the summer
In the first of a two-part series, we find that workflow management projects are a major focus of firms in the summer
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Canada's Activist Auditors General III: A political force?
Canada's Auditor General, Michael Ferguson, explains how the Office of the Auditor General selects its audits
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Canada's Activist Auditors General II: The trouble with the activist label
Carol Bellringer. Michael Ferguson. Bonnie Lysyk. What the three most recognized auditors general in Canada think of the activist label
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Special Report: Canada's activist auditors general
Accountants admire them. Politicians fear them. The public trusts them. But are Canada's auditors general going too far?
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CPA with Type 1 diabetes pleased with CRA disability tax credit reversal
Everett Colby of Colby McGeachy Professional Corporation explains the real cost of diabetes
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CRA explains reversal on disability tax credit restrictions for diabetics
A tacit acknowledgment of unintended consequences, says Diabetes Canada
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CRA reverses disability tax credit restrictions for diabetics
Canadian accountants critical of Canada Revenue Agency DTC policy decisions
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Teck Resources: The Best in Sustainability Reporting
Teck Resources won top global honours for its sustainability reporting in 2017
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Integrated reporting creating new opportunities for CPA profession
Non-traditional reporting is aligning with the overall disclosure controls of companies today, says KPMG
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Financial Reporting Excellence in a World of Voluntary Reporting
CPA Canada’s 2017 Awards of Excellence in Corporate Reporting
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The 21st century appeal of integrated reporting
KPMG says voluntary reporting is growing. The positives outweigh the negatives, says IFAC's deputy chair
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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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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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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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Practice Demographics: Recruiting the next accounting generation
What is the accounting profession and its public practice firms doing to address its demographic crisis?
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Canadian Accounting Demographics: Who will succeed today’s CPA practitioners?
Is the accounting profession doing enough to bring CPAs into public practice?
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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
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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
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Ask A CPA uses humour, history to sell profession
New campaign positions Chartered Professional Accountants as being on the right side of change
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Canadian manufacturers nervous after 3rd round of NAFTA negotiations
Chartered Professional Accountants in Canadian manufacturing sector see labour, supply chain disruption
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NOCLAR raises many questions from Canadian accountants
Chartered Professional Accountants weigh in on the challenges of complying with a new ethics standard
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NOCLAR demands careful weighing by Canadian Accountants
New IESBA ethics standard addresses client confidentiality vs. public interest
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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
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U.S. reform of individual income tax could impact Canadian business
As the Trump administration prepares to reform the U.S. tax code, lower individual income tax rates could impact Canadian business
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Proposed U.S. tax reform: clarifying the options
With proposed U.S. tax reform looming, we look at the options and their ramifications for Canadian business
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