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Profession
Sunday News Roundup 23.11.19: Carbon tax carveout, CEBA sympathy and more Canadian accounting news
Wrapping up the odds and ends from the past week in Canadian accounting news
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Practice
CPA Ontario scores two rare regulatory wins against large accounting firms
Million-dollar settlements with Deloitte Canada and Marcum LLP over professional conduct breaches make headlines during uneasy times
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Ethics
Accounting for the Greenbelt giveaway: Auditor General report proves Doug Ford gave Ontarians no value for their money
Ford has disparaged Bonnie Lysyk, FCPA, FCA, whose decade-long tenure has come full circle with a special report on a deal that favoured developers
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Profession
Sunday News Roundup 23.07.30: Profiles in pilfering, plus internal ethics and more Canadian accounting news
Wrapping up the odds and ends from the past week in Canadian accounting news
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Practice
Ernst and Young Canada to pay $1.5 million in class action lawsuit over Just Energy audits
The Big Four accounting firm will also provide information relevant to the ongoing litigation against executives censured by the PCAOB
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Thought Leaders
Why is it so difficult to handle whistleblower reports?
Accounting and ethics professors explain the agency theory behind effective whistleblower systems to avoid cases like LuxLeaks at PricewaterhouseCoopers
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Practice
Accountants negligent in review engagement of Ponzi scheme
Marco Baldasaro and Graham McLennan of McLennan Ross LLP on an Alberta court decision involving a disclaimer clause in an accounting firm's Review Engagement Report
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Practice
Canadian accountants take note as SEC reminds accounting firms of the rules involving other auditors
KPMG Canada fined in 2022 over use of other auditors in multinational audit
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Practice
SR&ED: The CRA cannot use its civil tax audit power to gather information for a criminal investigation
David J Rotfleisch explains why the Federal Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the CRA in a Scientific Research and Experimental Development tax credits case
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Profession
Canadian accountants cannot resign membership to avoid discipline hearings
Alberta court denies accounting professional’s attempt to stay proceedings
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Practice
WFH Accountants Beware: BC tracking software case leads to global news coverage
Accounting firm wins court decision over “time theft” by accounting employee
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Profession
Canadian Accountant’s most popular stories of 2022
The top five stories and some honourable mentions from the past year’s reporting
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