With the global economic crisis still in the news, executive compensation remains a hot topic of discussion.

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) recently released its 2012 annual report on the Canadian Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) program – the CRA’s mandatory service program designed to help taxpayers resolve cases of:

The challenges facing CFOs today are multifold. On the one hand they need to manage the performance of their organizations, and on the other hand they need to leverage quality management information to support business decisions.

With increasing student expectations and decreasing funding levels, universities and colleges are looking for ways to get the most of every dollar they spend.

As a result of a recent court decision, Canadian companies doing business in the U.S. may be entitled to tax refunds for 2007 and later tax years.

Given the complexity of accounting for insurance contracts, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) is taking a two-phase approach to issuing an accounting standard for insurance contracts (IFRS 4).

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Given the continuing economic uncertainties and market volatility, we expect that assessing investments in AFS equity instruments for impairment will be a significant issue for companies holding these investments at year-end.

This is the fifth of a series of articles dedicated to tax considerations of shareholders' agreements for private corporations.

The IASB and FASB ended their redeliberations of the leasing project with tentative agreements on a number of issues relating to presentation and disclosure.

On October 24, 2012, Canada’s Department of Finance (Finance) released a Notice of Ways and Means Motion (NWMM).

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and his French counterpart, Pierre Moscovici, have sent a letter to the finance ministers of the other 25 European Union Member States.

So far, 11 European Union (EU) member states are moving rapidly towards agreement on the introduction of a financial transaction tax (FTT), which is likely to start in January 2014.

On Dec. 17, 2010, when US president, Barack Obama passed a law governing tax on inherited wealth, most Canadian family business owners probably didn't sigh with relief—but in fact many had good reason to