The Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario (CPA Ontario) celebrated the appointments of those named to CPA Fellowship. Among the 50 newly named FCPAs, were 8 SAF alumni and Dave Vert, retired faculty member of Waterloo’s School of Accounting and Finance (SAF).
Mike focuses on financial literacy month. First, Judith Robertson, Commissioner of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, speaks about what her organization does and what they’re focusing on during financial literacy month. Then Tracy Hilpert, a Lecturer of Managerial Accounting with the University of Waterloo’s School of Accounting and Finance and the Director of the department’s Financial Literacy Competition joins to explain how their competition teaches financial literacy to high school students and how classes can get involved.
Global Summit of Women in Accounting and Finance showcases women’s leadership and SAF’s global presence
Globally, 2020 has been a year of unanticipated decision-making as organizations pivoted to ensure business success, often with
Tony Wirjanto, a curator for Insurance and Asset Management for the World Economic Forum and professor at the School of Accounting and Finance, takes us through how COVID-19 has affected the insurance industry, and what can be done about it.
The repercussions of COVID-19 and worsening climate change are among the issues that will impact the insurance industry, according to Tony Wirjanto, University of Waterloo professor.
Wirjanto, working as a curator in Insurance and Asset Management for the World Economic Forum (WEF), identified eight key issues poised to influence the insurance industry in the recently released WEF Transformation Maps.
Canadian mid-market private equity firm Ironbridge Equity Partners has promoted Tanya Babalawo to chief financial officer and Daivik Doshi to vice president.
Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 is a dynamic awards program that identifies outstanding young achievers in Canadian business, visionaries and innovators changing the way things are done. They are inspiring others and already giving back to their communities and to Canada. And every one of them is under the age of forty.
Toronto, ON, September 29, 2020 – CFA Societies Canada announces University of Waterloo as the winning team following the 4th annual CFA Societies Canada Ethics Challenge. The announcement was made at the virtual competition, marking the end of the 2020 competition.
Welcome to our second annual ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies. The 400 businesses on this list sprawl across sectors, from fashion to finance, and manufacture everything from medical testing devices to organic pasta.
Much of the success celebrated in these pages occurred before a global pandemic changed how most companies operate. But as you will read, many of these businesses were able to adapt, innovate and even expand despite the challenges posed by these past few months.
Authors Kenneth Klassen (pictured) and Nick Pantaleo explore the pressure on the CRA to raise more tax revenues, as well as assess the efficiency of the audit process and the fairness of results.
Incentives to increase assessments were amplified by recent funding for the CRA that carries an expectation that additional tax revenues of $5 will be collected for each $1 spent, a “return” that is much higher than in the past. As well, these additional tax revenues are explicitly linked to closing the “tax gap,” the CRA’s measure of how much tax revenue theoretically exists versus how much is actually paid voluntarily.