How to Break the Hold of Proxy Advisory Firms

Companies can use “connected directors” to lessen the influence of proxy advisory firms on mutual fund firms

Research Brief: How Long-Term Investors Shape Management Decisions

Closer monitoring and better quality information give some institutional investors out-sized influence on corporate performance

Feeling Angry or Fearful? Then Don’t Call Your Stock Broker

The many hidden ways your emotions affect your investment decisions, and how emotional intelligence can make you a savvier investor

Auditor’s Dilemma: “Client Satisfaction” Turns a Discerning Mind to Mush

For any other profession, customer relationship management is a great marketing tactic. For auditors, it makes them identify too readily with a client’s overly aggressive accounting approach

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The CPA Recruiting Game

The recruitment messaging of public accounting firms has shifted to prioritize the commercial values of the employment experience over the traditionally touted professional values of the auditing field.

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How Former Auditors Take Their Biases With Them

CPAs who leave their positions as auditors to become accountants in private industry often find themselves on the other side of the audit engagement as auditees. Here, they have the power to shape the engagement in ways that jeopardize audit independence.

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How to Become an Ex-auditor

Aspiring CPAs are drawn to the transformative power of the Big Four experience to endow them with a coveted professional identity. Within three years, though, half of all entry-level auditors leave public accounting.

Forecast 2019: Floating on Air, and Deficit Spending

In the face of falling oil prices and rising interest rates, Canada’s economy remains buoyant. But the growth cycle is nearing an end

Research Brief: Senior Lenders Are Great, Until They’re Not

As junior lenders, bondholders benefit when big banks monitor loans, but the risk of creditor conflict is eventually priced in

Research Brief: The Value of Time-Tested Bankruptcy Judges

Firms seeking Chapter 11 protection may want to shop for a judge with plenty of on-the-job experience

The Gaping Hole in Canada's Labour Force

Bank of Canada's Poloz: Boosting numbers of youth, women, Indigenous people, Canadians with disabilities, and recent immigrants "a prize worth pursuing"

Shopping for a Pretty Picture or An Accurate One?

It's assumed that public companies shopping around for a favourable audit opinion have something to hide. Instead, they may be acting as proper corporate stewards