Canadian regulator issues guides on IFRS

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has issued two high-level guides on the impacts of IFRS: Deciphering IFRS - What Analysts Need To Know About IFRS Transition and Investing in the New Era - What Investors Need To Know About IFRS Transition. The guides outline a number of questions for analysts and investors to consider and are available on the OSC website.

CEO Round Table - What do the leaders of the top seven CA firms think about key issues?

In December 2010, Kevin Dancey, president and CEO of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA), hosted a round table discussion with the CEOs of the top seven accounting firms. The discussion covered a wide range of topics of interest to the profession. Participants included Chris Clark of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Keith Farlinger of BDO Canada, Trent Henry of Ernst & Young, Alan MacGibbon of Deloitte, Phil Noble of Grant Thornton, Daryl Ritchie of Meyers Norris Penny and Bill Thomas of KPMG. Also present was Bill MacKinnon, chairman of the CICA. Read what these leaders had to say about key issues in the article "CEO Round Table" at CAmagazine online.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Beginners

There is a lot written these days about advanced search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. But if you are new to this strange world of getting sites like Google, Yahoo, and MSN to rank your pages high on a search result, where do you begin? (Read the article "SEO for Beginners" at Open Forum online.)

Reducing complexity in corporate reporting

Two years ago, the UK Financial Reporting Council (FRC) launched a project to review the complexity and relevance of current corporate reporting requirements. Recently, it published Louder than Words: principles and actions for making corporate reports less complex and more relevant. According to the FRC, reporting should be more principle-based. In this regard, the discussion paper sets out a series of communication principles. (Read the FRC Press Release.)