September 2007 — PRINT EDITION             Intelligence explained Want to know how your organization can make business insight pervasive at every level? Here’s a checklist that will help you adjust your strategies and better meet company goals Top 10 tech issues Every year, the CICA’s Information Technology Advisory Committee consults with the profession to find out what it is most concerned about. We’ve got the roundup on the priorities facing chartered accountants this year     People For vocalist and pianist Victoria Sanjana, it’s all jazz all the time. The Toronto CA spends her days at radio station JAZZ.FM91 as director of finance and administration, and her evenings playing gigs around town. But reconciling her CA work with her life as a musician wasn’t always easy.     News and trends   •  Companies afraid to leave Big Four behind   •  News from the profession     Numbers game       Ask an expert Is it ok to use PowerPoint when i’m giving presentations?     Bits & Bites   •  More rules, yet more fraud   •  Turn off, tune in, drop costs   •  Anything you can do, I can do better   •  Integrity still valued   •  CA firm has top benefit plan     Value added   •  Focus on IT governance With all the recent scrutiny on corporate governance, it’s no wonder the focus has now shifted to IT governance. Given our growing reliance on technology, organizations are coming under pressure to ensure IT is cost efficient and effective.   •  Time to make Web portals less confusing More and more organizations are nudging their employees into using employee portals for their healthcare and retirement planning. But they aren’t making it easy by providing the right technology and content for employees to navigate their way.     Findings Business chimes in on challenges     Going concern Jason Myers, CA President & co-founder, CoolIT Systems Inc.       Taxation Exposures or opportunities? Overlooking GST treatments when it comes to income trust structures could lead to unforeseen costs     Fraud In whose best interest? When corporate officers find opportunities for personal gain, there’s a right way to self-deal, and then there’s the wrong way     Standards The road to IFRS: While the transition to international reporting standards won’t be easy, with some planning the changeover can be successful     Taxation - small business A match made in heaven: Trusts aren’t just for big corporations, they’re a business-friendly tool for SMEs too     Legal issues Obligated to reveal: A securities regulator’s ruling may affect how the courts see liability of directors and auditors in civil liability cases     Letters to the editor From the editor Scams and other IT issues Netwatch The era of social accounting Enterprise software survey 2007 Our annual software survey is back, and it’s bigger than ever. This year, we brought various surveys – accounting/ERP, customer relationship management, business intelligence/corporate performance management and professional services automation – into one issue. For accounting/ERP, you can use our handy online chart to compare up to four products at a time. Read it all in Enterprise software survey 2007. Outlook Are our governments too generous?