ASPE – the seductive alternative

I’ve found it difficult to identify much objective research or commentary on the overall effectiveness of Canadian Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises (ASPE). This is hardly a surprise, as it’s almost as hard to get a read on the real value of IFRS, which of course has much greater overall visibility in the market and…

The global language of IFRS – will it go the way of Latin?

Could the momentum of IFRS in Canada be fated to decline? Here’s an extract from an interesting recent article in the National Post, written by Drew Hasselback: “Add the publicly traded company to the endangered species list. Since 2007, the number of publicly listed companies in Canada has dropped 16.7 per cent, according to statistics…

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ASPE – the seductive alternative

The global language of IFRS – will it go the way of Latin?