Register today for our free CA Practice Advantage webinar:

Date - November 26, 2009
Time - 12:30 p.m. ET
Earn one hour of CPD credit for attending this webinar
(upon successful completion of quiz)

This session will address the reporting of breaches by organizations, when reporting is required under current privacy laws and the resources available to guide organizations as to whether or not they should report.  Learn about the experiences, challenges, concerns and issues related to managing privacy breaches.  This session will also review the top five investments organizations are making to avoid a breach.

This webinar will be of particular interest to Canadian organizations in preparing for proposed amendments to Canada's privacy laws requiring mandatory security breach notification to individuals, reporting of breaches to privacy commissioners and possible reporting to law enforcement agencies.

One of the CICA's most useful publications last year was "The CICA's Guide to IFRS in Canada".  This pocket sized (if you had good sized pockets) 94-page book(let) briefly discussed each CICA handbook section and compared it to the IFRS (or IAS) equivalent.  In April 2009, the guide was updated and is available for free download directly from the CICA's website by clicking here.

The revised version is a little longer (it has about 10 additional pages of content) and covers a comparison of Canadian standards to the related IFRSs (as at July 31, 2008).

PTC is proud to be a sponsor of CICA's Report On Industry and Chartered Accountants Practice Advantage webinar series.  Missed one, want to listen again, need a copy of the presentation slides?  Follow the links below, register and listen or click on the resources link on the respective webinar page for the slides.

April 27, 2009
Introduction to IFRS1 - First-Time Adoption of IFRS

January 28, 2009
MD&A In Volatile and Uncertain Times

January 14, 2009
Communications About IFRS Changeover

November 18, 2008
IFRS Practical Planning Strategies and Disclosure Requirements

Overwhelmed? Reviewing the IFRS Resources Provided By Accounting Bodies

IFRS or International Financial Reporting Standards, to give it its full name, is gradually starting to gain momentum. Today alone, I’ve seen ads in newspapers, heard about it on the radio, and the internet is rife with information on this topic.

Hot on the heels of last month’s article – where we discussed the IFRS resources available from the accounting bodies – is this month’s article where we will review resources provided by the Big 4 accounting firms.  Who is leading the charge in becoming the authority on IFRS?  Who is producing a number of quality articles and publications?  Who is doing an average job and who needs to try harder?