You may have already noticed that your auditors are a bit more perky (chirpy?) about preparing for their 2009 audits. What you may not know is the reason: effective December 15, 2009 your auditors are being held to a new standard - the Canadian Standards on Quality Control (”CSQC 1“).
Uhm, why do I care?
Fair enough. [...]
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new audit standards?
November 26th, 2009 — general & admin
private enterprise GAAP?
November 24th, 2009 — general & admin
A client of mine just met with their auditors in order to prepare for their 2009 audit. One of the questions the auditors asked was:
are you going to embrace International Financial Reporting Standards (”IFRS“) in 2010 or will you move towards private enterprise GAAP?
As many of you know IFRS is mandatory for Canadian publicly traded [...]
thanks but no thanks
November 19th, 2009 — general & admin
A part of the recruiting process is correctly setting expectations with your candidates. As I mentioned, this is the candidates first encounter with you as a company so you want it to be professional, open, and respectful. As a part of your communication during recruiting please don’t forget to thank candidates for applying but also, [...]
salary surveys
November 10th, 2009 — general & admin
As many of you are going through the recruiting process now I felt I should address one of the many questions I get:
what is the typical salary range for a given position?
Now, of course, because we are the little guy we don’t have access to current salary surveys (they cost a fortune) but we do have access to [...]


