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CMA Management is a dynamic business magazine designed to help senior management professionals make informed decisions and give them a strategic advantage. Published by CMA Canada, CMA Management is circulated to more than 35,000 CMAs and 10,000 CMA candidates and students. It is also available by subscription.
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Creating clear skies
How Navtech Inc., a small Canadian firm, has taken on Europe with a savvy acquisition — a company more than twice its size. Effective communication within its own ranks, a clear understanding of its own business, and a strong due diligence process all made a big difference
By Robert Colman
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Downsizing the right way
Letting people go has rarely been considered a process that required a lot of finesse. But as companies consider the importance of their brand more closely, many are re-evaluating the downsizing routine
By Marjo Johne
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The shared services journey
Although there is no template for shared services implementation success, those who have been through the process have experienced similar hurdles and successes. A variety of these experts recently met in Ottawa to discuss the important role shared services plays in the public sector today — and how best to manage the delicate development of this organizational model
By Robert Colman
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The service company advantage
Why service companies can perform better cost reporting and cost accounting than manufacturing companies
<br><b>By Alan Vercio, CPA, and Brianna DeMarco Pierce</b>
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Public accounting in Canada
A new CMA Public Accounting Program, soon to be available as a post-designation area of specialization for CMAs, will create expanded opportunities for management accountants and enhance their value proposition for businesses and clients
<br><B>By R. David Fletcher </B>
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Public practice expertise
With the public accounting landscape quickly changing across Canada, CMAs who qualify to practise in the field will find significant opportunities to strengthen their value proposition for business. Three CMA public accountants in Alberta show how.
<br><b>By Robert Colman</b>
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Human resources
<b>Catching Generation Y.</b> Today’s young professionals, members of the “echo boom”, are a hot commodity. Companies that are committed to attracting them need to change their search strategies for success.
<br><i>By Jeremy Miller</i>
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Management trends
<b>Improving the cost accounting advantage.</b> Often poorly understood by undergraduate students, traditional cost accounting is still a valuable and much needed tool. The challenge for academics is to make it engaging.
<br><i>By Pierre Giguère</i>
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Business strategies
<b>Factoring and the credit manager.</b> How factoring can help minimize operational risk.
<br><i>By George Brown, CMA</i>
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Money management
<b>Charitable donation tax shelters.</b> Say the words “buy low, exit high” and people will probably think you’re talking about the stock market. But the phrase could just as easily apply to a type of charitable donation tax shelter. Sound too good to be true? It might be.
<br><i>By Andrew Rickard </i>
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Information technology
<b>Using software to manage assets.</b> As organizations move to comply with Bill 198 and Sarbanes-Oxley, asset management is appearing at the top of corporate agendas. From an IT perspective, addressing this issue can involve a surprisingly wide range of tasks — especially if those assets generate a substantial portion of the company’s revenue.
<br><i>By Jacob Stoller</i>
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Government issues
<b>Building with a helping hand.</b> After six decades, NRC-IRAP continues to provide a much-needed boost to start-up SMEs. Are you taking advantage?
<br><i>By John Cooper</i>
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Global view
Eye on India. Once seen as an ideal outsourcing location, India is also a thriving
and potentially lucrative market. By considering three key tips to doing business in India, you’ll make entering the market easier.
By Peter Nesbitt
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Media bites
<b>Transformations</b>
<ul><li>Winning The Three-Legged Race</li>
<li>A Thousand Barrels a Second</li>
<li>Chasing Daylight</li></ul>
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News and views
<b>New and noteworthy information you can use</b>
<ul><li>Cut middle management, kill productivity</li>
<li>Top 10 tech trends see broader search engines, faster telecom</li>
<li>Customers before cost-cutting, say global CEOs</li>
<li>Relationships everything in outsourcing: study</li>
<li>Leadership development a cornerstone advantage</li>
<li>High Tech: Launching the Satellites</li>
<li>New software</li></ul>
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