Certified General Accountants Association of Canada - Research

Research

CGA-Canada develops research and supports positions with a view to influence social policy, regulation and standards-setting.

This initiative has resulted in the following research items.

• Informed View - Canada's Immigration System - Short-term Solutions May Impede Long-term Prosperity (July 17, 2012)
• Issue in Focus - Labour Shortages in Skilled Trades - The Best Guestimate? (July 17, 2012)
• Informed View — Regulating Sustainability Reporting – Is a Mandatory Approach Better than a Voluntary One? (Dec 20, 2011)
• Does Canada Have a Problem with Occupational Fraud? (Dec 6, 2011)
• Issue in Focus — Planning for Retirement – There is No Substitute (Nov 2, 2011)
• Informed View — The Bank of Canada’s Overnight Rate – As Low and as Long as Needed (Oct 5, 2011)
• Issue in Focus — The Need for Tax Simplification – A Challenge and an Opportunity (Aug 10, 2011)
• A Driving Force No More: Have Canadian Consumers Reached Their Limits? (Jun 14, 2011)
• Issue in Focus — Can We Get Better for Less? Value for Money in Canadian Health Care (May 11, 2011)
• The Effects of IFRS on Financial Ratios: Early Evidence in Canada (Mar 16, 2011)
• Issue in Focus — MD&A – Counterpart to or Distraction from Financial Reporting (Jan 17, 2011)
• Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Rebuilding a Foundation for Post-Recovery Growth (Dec 7, 2010)
• Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises — Country Focus: Canada (Dec 7, 2010)
• Informed View — Shifting the Burden of Health Care Costs – Where To? (Nov 18, 2010)
• Laying the Foundation for a National Entrepreneurship Strategy: The CGA Entrepreneurship Report(Oct 18, 2010)
• Informed View — Living Standards – Measure it Right (Jul 29, 2010)
• 0CPA Australia/CGA-Canada: Report of the Forum on SME Issues — Unlocking the potential of the SME Sector (Jul 14, 2010)*
• Issue in Focus — Registered Education Savings Plans – Valuable Opportunities for the Students of Tomorrow (Jun 24, 2010)
• Where Is the Money Now: The State of Canadian Household Debt as Conditions for Economic Recovery Emerge (May 11, 2010)
• Gauging the Path of Private Canadian Pensions: 2010 Update on the State of Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Pension Plans (Apr 30, 2010)
• Earnings Quality Differential Between Canadian and U.S. Public Companies (Mar 31, 2010
• Issue in Focus - Fair Value Accounting: The Road to Be Most Travelled (January 2010)
• The Public Underwriting of Private Debt:The Prospect of Industry Targeting (December 2009)
• Where Has the Money Gone: The State of Canadian Household Debt in a Stumbling Economy (May 2009)
• The Federal Budget Surplus: Surprise or Strategy? (July 2008)
• Where Does the Money Go: The Increasing Reliance on Household Debt in Canada (October 2007)
• Fading Productivity: Making Sense of Canada’s Productivity Challenge (May 2007)
• Tackling Compliance: Small Business and Regulation in Canada (October 2006)
• Demystifying Income Trusts (March 2006)
• The State of Defined-Benefit Pension Plans in Canada: An Update (November 2005)
• Measuring Up: A Study on Corporate Sustainability Reporting in Canada (June 2005)
• Growing Up: The Social and Economic Implications of an Aging Population (January 2005)
• Addressing the Pensions Dilemma in Canada (June 2004)