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  Watching the detectives
When the forensic accountant comes a-calling, it's generally not good news, especially when it's Hazel de Burgh showing up at the LAPD. The Toronto-based CA▪IFA was brought in to audit the force following a number of incidents
By Paul McLaughlin


de•fin•ing terms
What's it all mean? We all know what audit, client and ledger mean. But do we? In fact the original definitions of these words had a very different, sometimes even opposite, meaning to how we use them today
By Elaine Saunders

Upfront
 
People At times Len Goldberg says his hobby is a "swell time." The Toronto-based sole practitioner has been a part-time apiarist, beekeeper to the rest of us, for the past 17 years and now tends to a quarter-million bees

News and trends • Business risks include terrorism • Are you up for extreme accounting? • Lost gadgets not gone for good • Are entrepreneurs mortgaging their retirements?* • Canadian banks and Basel II* • News from the profession

Numbers game

Ask an expert I’m going to a convention and hope to make some business connections. What’s the best way to go about it?

Book value • <em>Influence Without Authority</em> • <em>The Conflict Resolution ToolBox</em>

Findings Largest employers, part III

As quoted Pipe dreams

Going concern Charlie Cutts, CA
President and CEO
Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall


Regulars
 
  Taxation It's an art, not a science: transfer-pricing issues are many shades of gray, which presents challenges for the tax practitioner and the taxpayer
By Sheila J. Smith & Paula L. Kelley

Insolvency Shaping regimes: Canada has a reputation as one of the best insolvency legal regimes and is a major player in international insolvency reform
By Mahesh Uttamchandani

Personal financial planning Catch the IPP wave: the individual pension plan industry is on the verge of an explosion which could prove profitable for CAs
By Peter J. Merrick

Risk management Corporate values: meaning-based management can help a company retain a human face and become a place where people want to work
By Murray Wolfe


COLUMNS
 
Inside out Offbeat stories
Letters to the editor
Off the record An anniversary for Nortel
Netwatch Author's time has come
Test drive Dynacom’s subtle popularity
Outlook Whiners and crybabies