Available: June 2012

A comprehensive source of practical solutions, strategies, techniques, procedures, and formulas covering all key aspects of accounting and financial management.  Its examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions, and other practical working tools simplify complex financial management issues and give you answers to day-to-day questions. 

The Handbook covers important developments in government rules, accounting procedures, taxation and information technology. It includes references to relevant topics of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification references, as well as Accounting Standards Updates. The practical, hands-on guidance helps diagnose a firm's financial health, boost financial results, avoid unpleasant surprises, cut costs, and make financial decisions with confidence.

This edition also includes a free CD-ROM containing searchable PDFs of each chapter, along with the following Excel forms:

• Capital Budgeting: Advice of Project Change Form
• Capital Budgeting: Appropriation Request Form
• Capital Budgeting: Economic Feasibility Study for a New Information System
• Capital Budgeting: Initial Cash Outlay and Operating Costs Checklist for a New Information System
• Capital Budgeting: Lease Versus Purchase Evaluation Report
• Capital Budgeting: Project Application Form
• Internal Control: Internal Control Assessment Form
• Internal Control: Computer Applications
• Checklist: Medium to Large Business
• Internal Control: Financial Reporting Information Systems and Controls Checklist — Medium to Large Business
• Variance Analysis: Daily Labor Mix Report
• Variance Analysis: Daily Material Usage Report by Week
• Variance Analysis: Labor Performance Report
• Variance Analysis: Monthly Material Variance Report
• Variance Analysis: Marketing Performance Report for a Regional Sales Manager
• Variance Analysis: Marketing Performance Report for a Vice-President

Related books:

• Practical Guide to Corporate Taxation (U.S.)
• Almanac of Business & Industrial Financial Ratios (2012)
• U.S. Master Tax Guide®, 2012

 

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Published: June 2011

Confidentiality in International Commercial Arbitration deciphers the current degree of confidentiality in international commercial arbitration as reflected by the most important arbitration rules, national laws, other arbitration-related enactments, and practices of arbitral tribunals and domestic courts globally. Drawing on this data and analysis, the author then sets forth criteria to assess the breach of confidentiality in international arbitration and the proper rules for protecting or sanctioning such breaches.

What do we understand by confidentiality in arbitration? What are its limitations? Who is bound to observe it? How can we quantify its breach? In addressing these questions, the book engages such issues as the following:

• Reasons for disclosure – e.g., for the establishment of a defence, for the enforcement of rights, in the public interest or in the interests of justice
• Disclosure by consent, express or implied
• Circumstances triggering statutory obligation of disclosure
• Recent trends towards greater transparency in investor-State arbitration
• Court measures in support of arbitral confidentiality such as award of damages for breach of confidentiality
• Categories of persons bound by confidentiality, including third parties such as witnesses and experts

Structured along the main stages of the arbitral process, the analysis covers the duty of confidentiality from the initiation of arbitral proceedings through their unfolding to the issuance of the award and after. The scope of confidentiality is reviewed in the practice of arbitral tribunals and domestic courts, and from the perspective of international arbitration institutions, with detailed attention to various arbitration rules and numerous significant cases.

In its elucidation of the amount of confidentiality that ‘veils’ each phase of the arbitral process, and its ground-breaking identification of ‘patterns of disclosure’, this book is sure to raise awareness about the various facets and problems posed by confidentiality in arbitration. Although its scholarly contribution to the law of international commercial arbitration cannot be gainsaid, corporate counsel worldwide will quickly prize its more practical value.

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Commercial Times is a current awareness newsletter that covers the most relevant issues in commercial law.

Topics covered:

• Sales Contracts
• e-Commerce
• Personal Property Security
• Statutory Liens and Trusts
• Debt Collection
• Competition Law
• Consumer Protection
• Competition Law
• Intellectual Property
• Bankruptcy and insolvency, and more

This leading current awareness tool has the following format:

• Monthly practice-based news article
• Legislative updates
• Recent cases with summaries from provincial and federal courts with links to full text

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There is no better way to stay on top of key developments in commercial law in Canada. When you subscribe to the Commercial Law News Tracker, you get notices of all updates via e-mail. Your updates give you instant access to changes in commercial law that originate from a variety of primary and secondary sources such as press releases and cases. This current awareness tool also gives you a 10-day summary and 60-day archive of past news items, organized federally and provincially, in a searchable format.

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COURSE 2 (Advocis 232)
CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES IN FINANCIAL PLANNING: 10th Edition

Students are introduced to basic income tax laws and then move into a more advanced understanding, as it relates to areas of financial planning. A review of the professional and ethical responsibilities associated with the role of a financial planner and an understanding of the structures and services within the financial industry are covered in the course. Different forms of business structures are explored in depth, along with an understanding of trusts.

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The Canadian Commercial Law Guide provides you with in-depth and up-to-date expert commentary and coverage of a wide variety of business and commercial law areas across Canada.

Your subscription includes:

• a monthly newsletter, the Commercial Times, that explains changes to relevant law, summarizes recent cases, and provides in-depth articles that examine current topics of interest to commercial lawyers
• the News Tracker, which lets you know the status of legislative changes (available only to online subscribers)
• tables of concordance comparing significant pieces of legislation across the country
• in-depth commentary on the following key commercial topics:
  • sales contracts
  • debt collection
  • consumer protection
  • negotiable instruments
  • intellectual property
  • personal property security
  • other forms of security
  • bankruptcy and insolvency
  • product liability
  • competition law

Areas covered include franchising, consumer disclosures, trade secrets, class actions, secured transactions, and much, much more!

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This webinar series consists of a panel of highly successfully accounting professionals who have each approached the integration of financial planning into their practice in different ways. This second webinar will cover:

• The role of the accountant in financial planning
• What is permitted and what is prohibited
• The importance of the engagement letter
• The financial planning process from setting goals to presenting the plan
• Best practices and lessons learned

Part One:
Why Financial Planning is Important to Accountants Archived Webinar 2012

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Philip Wilson

The comprehensive resource puts 50 comparative performance indicators at the practitioner's command and covers all of North America (U.S., Canada, and Mexico) using NAICS data. The Almanac provides financial information that is calculated and derived from the latest available IRS data on nearly 5 million U.S. and international companies. The Almanac gives you accurate performance data for 50 operating and financial factors in 199 industries.

Data for each industry is divided into 13 categories based on company size, so you'll find a precise benchmark against which to measure any company's performance. One quick glance at the appropriate field of business and company-size category and you've found the definitive starting point for competitive performance analysis. The Almanac provides competitive norms in actual dollar amounts for revenue and capital factors, such as net receivables, net property, inventories, total assets, portfolio income, and more. It then gives you important average operating costs in percent of net sales, including cost of operations, pensions and benefits, interest, and more.

The Almanac provides ratios for industry-wide results for inventory turnover, current assets to working capital, quick ratio, asset turnover, and others. It also provides other critical financial factors in percentages, including debt ratio, return on assets, and return on equity, and profit margin.

It comes complete with a CD that contains a special Excel Spreadsheet Template that can be used to input data on a given company to see how a company compares with the data provided in the Almanac.

The book is organized by the following major industry sectors, which in turn cover 199 industries, including:

• Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting
• Mining
• Utilities
• Construction
• Manufacturing
• Wholesale trade
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• Information
• Finance and insurance
• Real estate and rental leasing
• Professional, scientific and technical services
• Management of companies (holding companies)
• Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
• Health care and social assistance
• Arts, entertainment and recreation
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• Other services (including repair and maintenance, automotive repair and maintenance, personal and laundry services, and religious, grant-making, civic, and professional organizations)

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