Entries from February 2008 ↓

it’s official - IFRS will replace Canadian GAAP by 2011

The Canadian Accounting Standards Board (AcSB) confirmed this week that International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) will replace Canadian GAAP effective January 1, 2011 for publicly accountable profit-oriented enterprises. Why the move? Businesses increasingly work in a global context - look at Business Ready: we provide our examples in both US and Canadian GAAP. [...]

QuickBooks 2008 - multi-currency dilemma!

I just have to say it: what was Intuit thinking when they removed the multi-currency feature from their 2008 QuickBooks product line?
In order to include all of the improvements to QuickBooks into QuickBooks 2008, we had to make some hard decisions on what features we should include.
Multi-currency got removed?!? Technology has allowed many small [...]

web site design - cheap and slick options

Yes, yes, you want to start an online presence but you need a slick web site and need some inspiration for overall branding. Why not consider web design templates? A template is a set of professionally created design files to use as a starting point for building a web site. Templates are [...]

engaging the online consumer

As we begin to launch our own web site (www.businessready.ca) we have been thinking a lot about best practices behind e-commerce drivers. We have some pretty strong opinions on what the user experience should be like (based a lot on your feedback) but we believe there are a few key areas that our customers really [...]