Marketing Strategy Coke vs. Pepsi PepsiCo says it plans to start testing a new fountain machine at restaurants that lets people create a variety of flavor combinations, such as strawberry Mountain Dew. The test follows Coca-Cola’s introduction in 2009 of its Freestyle machine, which also lets customers touch a screen to pick from a… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Corporate Restructuring
Canadian’s firm used in huge Russian tax scandal, plus How the Rich hide their money!
Caribbean agency helped set up offshore companies connected to $230M scam It’s a tale with the cloak-and-dagger intrigue of a Hollywood thriller: a $230-million heist, corrupt Russian police and government officials, prison beatings, a dead lawyer, Kafkaesque trials and a diplomatic spat between international superpowers. And now, for the first time, secret files obtained exclusively… Read more »
A modest proposal : Tax Haven
THE rampant use of tax havens by large companies to reduce their tax bills has been moving up political agendas. The G8 and G20 have called for action to curb the practice. They worry that the international network of treaties and rules designed to avoid the double taxation of multinationals has instead allowed them to… Read more »
Canada falling behind on women on corporate boards
Canada is falling behind other countries When it comes to putting women on corporate boards, according to a report by TD Economics. While participation in the labour force has increased significantly for women, that change has yet to be reflected at the top of Canada’s largest companies, according to the report. Women represent just… Read more »
Managing the message: Canada’s new anti-spam law sets a high bar
Managing the message: Canada’s new anti-spam law sets a high bar New laws target electronic communications Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (CASL), expected to come into force in 2013, will be one of the toughest of its kind in the world. Texts, tweets, Facebook posts and emails will all fall under its purview. In fact, CASL and… Read more »
Technology for Performance Measurement
Technology for Performance Measurement Performance Management and reporting is critical for every organization whether small or large, Private or Public. It’s also the source of many questions and assignments we work on in assisting our clients. There is little doubt that leveraging technology to help deliver an organization’s performance measurement framework can be very beneficial…. Read more »
Facebook IPO Filing Reveals Its Stunning Size: A Private Jet, $1 Billion In Profits
How BIG is Facebook? We knew Facebook was big : you don’t get to 800 million users without making a few bucks — but until today, we didn’t know just how big. Facebook filed papers for an initial public offering on Wednesday, pulling back the curtains on the inner workings of the world’s largest social networking… Read more »
How do Accountants Add Value to a Small Medium Enterprise
To Some! CAs are dull and colourless, but to SMEs (Small Medium Enterprises), they are trusted advisers, valuable sources of information and providers of many services Not True! Bland, boring and colourless are just a few of the common stereotypes that spring to mind when describing an accountant. But these are just urban myths. In… Read more »
Unification of the profession : retention of rights, regulations and public accountancy
Why are we considering the creation of a new designation? We are witnessing an irreversible international trend in which forces are converging around three major bodies: the American Certified Public Accountants (CPAs), the Global Accounting Alliance (GAA), made up of 11 of the leading accounting organizations in the world, and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants… Read more »
Canada’s corporate income tax fight
To Lower or not to Lower Corporate Tax Rates? Let us look at a few conflicting arguments. We are presently in the mist of a Federal Election, and all the major parties have different arguments to increase or decrease taxes. All three parties basically seem to get the notion of corporate competitiveness and the link… Read more »