The CMA Centre for Strategic Change hosts Ryan Quinn – Assistant Professor in Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, consultant to Fortune 500 companies and author of Lift: Becoming a Positive Force in any Situation. No matter what roles a person plays in life – business manager, parent, friend, neighbor, and so forth – we all want to have [...]
2012 CMA Leadership Conference – call for conference speakers to CMA BC’s annual members conference. Speaker submissions are due October 1, 2011.
CMA British Columbia welcomes Shantaram Sapre, CMA as a guest blogger to www.cmabcblog.com. ***************** Sustaining Cash Flows: A Challenge for a Growing Company By Shantaram Sapre, CMA It is often seen that a growing company faces cash-flow Challenges as it grows every year. The cash-flow Challenges may be either due to fixed capital requirements or due to working capital requirements. [...]
With RRSP season in full swing, the questions many of us are asking is – Will I have enough for retirement? What should be my first priority? Investing, paying off debt or contributing to my RRSP or TFSA? This month’s guest blogger, Don Nilson, CMA, FCMA, CFP, TEP – Principal of Nilson & Company and AFT TRIVEST Management Inc. shares [...]
Have you had to work with multiple files or data sources to put together mailing or customer lists or to validate data? Pulled your hair out trying to clean up spreadsheets or database exports into something that’s searchable and organized? If this sounds familiar, you may have wished you’d considered how Excel, and more specifically Excel text functions, can help [...]
A Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) survey released September 2010, found that Canada is undergoing an entrepreneurial revival triggered by the economic crisis and the economic recovery now underway in Canada. Working for yourself, and starting your own business, is a goal many business professionals strive for. For CMAs considering making an entrepreneurial leap, Mark Mawhinney, CMA shares some [...]
By Laura Thomas, CMA “Transfer what?” Transfer pricing can have implications worth millions of dollars, yet it’s an area of taxation that isn’t well understood by many business professionals. In July 2010, Canadian pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline, won the right to appeal Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) landmark transfer pricing adjustment. If the decision is reversed, it could mean GlaxoSmithKline will avoid [...]
The words audit or auditors can send accounting departments leaping into action or strike fear into others. But is this reaction warranted? Tom Peerless, MBA, CMA shares why you shouldn’t fear your next Internal Audit as he dispels the myths around Internal Audit, reviews the Internal Audit process and its role in goverance in series of articles for Update magazine. [...]
How many of the following ways of increasing empowerment do you actively encourage at your workplace? Could any of the following tips bring some of your fellow colleagues or direct reports out of the sidelines and into the spotlight? Some useful tips to consider this summer… 1. Position Centrality and Criticality * Expand personal communication networks (internal and external). * [...]
Innovation – a business buzz word, an elusive quality, thing or way of thinking? Innovation, and being innovative, is a quality most businesses strive for and hope to achieve. But how can one apply/encourage/create innovation in their business? Featured in this month’s issue of BCBusiness magazine is the 2010 Guide to Innovation where a panel of innovator experts has looked [...]
