I was in Seattle last week where, in my hotel bar, I met a bunch of folks who were attending a Business Intelligence (”BI”) conference. Road warriors are used to striking up conversations with strangers and, given the week, I thought most of my discourse would be about politics (the presidential debate was on) or [...]

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. [...]