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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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The future has never looked brighter
Steve Vieweg, President and CEO of CMA Canada, Barry C. Melancon, President and CEO of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and Charles B. Tilley, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in the United Kingdom were recently interviewed for the AICPA magazine, Journal of Accountancy. Sharing their views of the management accounting profession, they see a host of opportunities for management accountants and their governing bodies.
By Peter D. Fleming
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Digitize this
Approximately 5 million cheques are moved between Canadian financial institutions every single day. That’s a lot of paper. The solution? An industry-wide initiative that captures images of cheques so they can be cleared electronically. But what does this impending change mean to you?
By Kira Vermond
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Measuring the payoffs of strategic risk management
The new risk management environment requires that organizational leaders expand their scope to incorporate a broader set of risks. Managing these risks effectively, to improve performance and meet stakeholder expectations as well as meet regulatory requirements, is the challenge this expectation presents. CMA Canada and the AICPA are lending their members a hand with a new Management Accounting Guideline, which introduces a new Risk Management Payoff Model and a selection of performance measures to identify, measure, manage and report risks.
By Melanie Woodard McGee, CPA
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The new world of risk
Although risk has always been an integral part of doing business, science and compliance have together conspired to make risk management both more complex and in some ways more precise. Bob McGlashan, CMA, is on the cutting edge of these changes.
By Robert Colman
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Human resources
Employee or shareholder? For business owners with a private health services plan, the difference could be costly.
By Stephen Meek
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Management trends
XBRL on the rise. Organizations around the world are beginning to reap the benefits of Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) standards by including them in automated processes. Governments, banks and companies are at the beginning stages of adopting XBRL. Early results, just in, are encouraging, but there is still lots to do.
By Mark O’Connor, CMA
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Business strategies
Surviving the storm. A half-day process to get your team back on track can save you time and money on projects. Take the time to go back to basics when necessary.
By Michael Goldman
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Money management
Tax prepaid savings plans: for richer or for poorer? Registered Retirement Savings Plans have been around for nearly half a century, but Canadians aren’t using them as much as they could. Do we need another option?
By Andrew Rickard
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Information technology
IT downtime: assessing the human factor. A number of recent studies cite human error as the largest cause of centralized IT failures. However, methods for mitigating this threat don’t get much air time. IT managers seeking to make their systems more reliable would do well to take some lessons from other industries.
By Jacob Stoller
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Government issues
Breaking the border impasse. The federal government is bolstering border security with new investments, while trying to make trade more efficient.
By John Cooper
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Global view
Crude estimates. In September, CIBC World Markets suggested that oil would hit US$100 a barrel by 2007. So, should we expect big changes in world trade? Some experts think not.
By Robert Colman
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Media bites
Refocussing the corporate mind
- It Takes a CEO
- The Eye for Innovation
- Coaching
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News and views
New and noteworthy information you can use
- Glen LeBlanc, CMA, named Senior Vice President and CFO of Aliant
- Canadian compensation levels set to rise in 2006
- Corporate citizenship taking on a larger strategic role
- New report calls for reforms to maintain venture capital investment in China
- New growth management approach needed for southern Ontario
- Aerospace industry profits to rise in 2005
- High tech: Quiet computing
- Rants and raves: Health and the economy
- New software
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