FINANCE             Personal financial planning The four-letter word for divorce: having a plan in place before a breakup will make negotiations easier ...more Personal financial planning The benefits of giving: as more Canadians yearn to make a difference, a trusted adviser can help direct them to leaving a legacy ...more Finance In case of fire, break glass? What to do when your company suffers an insured loss to speed up your claim By Kieran J. Hallinan & Glenn Tautrims ...more Outlook Retirement: shares or bonds? ...more XBRL catches on with regulators ...more Personal financial planning Some things to think about: when it comes to finances, some issues just don’t get highlighted enough By Ian Davidson ...more Personal financial planning Touchy topics: drawing up a will may be the best time to bring up charitable donations By Monica Patten ...more Ask an expert How much for retirement? ...more Off the record What retirement? ...more Personal financial planning The next 50 years: the demographic impact on markets By Tom Fennell ...more Finance Standardizing the standards: how Canada’s accounting standards compare with international financial reporting standards By Ian P.N. Hague ...more Loath to Loan The small business sector says it is being abandoned by banks, which are more interested in charging transaction fees than in making loans to this critical business sector. Are Canadian banks up to the challenge of improving relations with small business? By Yan Barcelo ...more New exec hits the C-suite ...more Will Canadians outlive their assets? ...more People management Replacement planning: how to keep things in motion when a key employee leaves By Marcus Miller ...more Education Relevant and reliable? Fair value accounting for financial instruments By Steve Fortin ...more Enterprise risk management to the rescue ...more Finance Hedging and new standards: it’s time to prepare for the new financial instruments standards By Ian P. N. Hague ...more Insolvency Proposals made easy: debt problems can be solved and finances rehabilitated By Bryan Tannenbaum ...more Finance Applying the standards: it’s not too soon to prepare for the new accounting standards for financial instruments By Ian P.N. Hague ...more Focusing on the future ...more Personal Financial Planning The Canadian way: Canada's mutual fund industry is different from its US counterpart By Steven G. Kelman ...more Personal Financial Planning Taking control of risk: understanding its history can help your clients make the right investing decisions By Barb Clapham ...more Finance Be prepared: public sector reporting is coming of age and auditors and preparers should get ready for an implementation date By Barry Naik ...more ABLs: sharks or saviours? Just 10 years ago, asset-based lending was considered the "financing of last resort" and the lenders slightly gentler species of loan sharks. Today, that image is changing as more companies turn to ABLs when traditional banks are closed to them By Yan Barcelo ...more P-card makes purchasing easier ...more Tale of a turnaround Imperial PlasTech had a near-death experience, but thanks to the efforts of restructuring professionals, things are now looking up for the company By Jim Middlemiss ...more Quiz Do you know your lending lingo? ...more Scrap sells ...more Personal financial planning The making of a profession By Cary List ...more Emerging pains The primary objective of the IASC is to help Third World countries, where investing is deemed unsafe, to get on a firm accounting footing. How can reliable accounting be conducted where there’s a mish-mash of unenforceable rules? By Lawrence Richter Quinn ...more CFOs' jobs most volatile ...more Retiring on the installment plan ...more Personal financial planning Upgrade yourself By Peter Merrick ...more A new grip on retirement income ...more Who’s happy, who’s rich? ...more Netwatch Net makes giving easier ...more Where tax meets science ...more Numbers game Troubled airlines are hardly unique to Canada’s recent history ...more Finance Filling in the GAAP By Ian Hague ...more Book value Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap ...more Make purchasing a priority ...more Lowdown on liability insurance ...more Findings Financial planning is an important service for many CAs. ...more Investors behaving badly Do-it-yourself investors are their own worst enemy — they usually give bad advice and make bad investment decisions. And what’s their biggest mistake? They won’t use the services of a professional financial adviser. By Doug Yam ...more Finance Differential reporting By Annie Mersereau ...more Netwatch Financial facts, for free ...more Finance Time for a different tack? By Ian Hague ...more Savings time The clock is ticking as the financial services industry gears up for the conversion to T 1. But the magnitude of the change is better understood when one considers that the work that took three days to complete will have to be done in one. By René Lewandowski ...more