Pivot Magazine

Skip navigation

CPA Canada

Please choose between the following three options for navigation.

Skip to global navigation. Skip to site navigation. Continue to page content.

Home
News
Pivot Magazine

Vivek Jain

Features | From Pivot Magazine

A Canadian CPA is transforming America’s game

1.2.2019 | Luc Rinaldi

Vivek Jain helped found a football league where fans pick lineups and call plays. Is this the future of football?

Features | From Pivot Magazine

The CPA who’s making a buzz in the beekeeping biz

1.2.2019 | Mark Mann

Features | From Pivot Magazine

Putting an end to B.C.’s money laundering problems

1.2.2019 | Michael McCullough

Drone operated by construction worker on building site

Innovation | Trends

Eye in the sky: How drones are assisting with audits

2.12.2019 | Ethan Rotberg

Unmanned aircraft can help produce higher-quality audits, experts say. Learn the rules before you captain your organization’s fleet of drones.

Shipping container on a industrial crane among other containers at docks

Canada | Small business

Exporting: The answer to growing your business internationally

2.11.2019 | Sophie Nicholls Jones

With a growing number of Canadian companies investing in expanding globally, it’s time for CPAs to sharpen their international business skills. Here’s where to start.

Business standing in the city, holding out hand in the rain, while under an umbrella

Canada | Economy

Economic pessimism still on the rise, latest survey shows

2.8.2019 | Ethan Rotberg

CPA Canada Business Monitor shows little optimism from Canadian business leaders. Respondents also overwhelmingly favour a comprehensive review of the country’s tax system.

Ernie Daniels accepts award from Governor General Julie Payette

Features | Profile

CPAs can provide great support for innovation, says FNFA head

2.7.2019 | Margaret Craig-Bourdin

Ernie Daniels, CEO of the First Nations Finance Authority, explains how the organization won a Governor General’s Award—and why CPA skills are so valuable to innovators

woman presenting in front of a screen in a boardroom

World | Fraud

Cyber attacks cost more than you think

1.11.2019 | CPA Canada

Cyber attacks are expensive to fix, but they can also slow down growth and cause customers to stay away. Protect yourself before you have to pay up.

Canada | Personal Finance

Time to set the record straight about these 5 RRSP myths

2.5.2019 | Margaret Craig-Bourdin

Come RRSP season and consumers are often faced with a confusing jumble of misguided notions about this retirement savings vehicle. Here are some facts.

Canada | News

Tax system review will boost business, better serve Canadians

1.31.2019 | Sophie Nicholls Jones

CPA Canada calls for review and possible overhaul of system in latest tax report. Huge complexity and a lack of access to social benefits are key concerns.

@Work | Trends

Are you guilty of masking your emotions in the workplace?

1.25.2019 | Beverley Ann D’Cruz

Putting on a front while on the job could be affecting your mental health. Here’s some professional advice on how to deal with that emotional labour.

Brothers Shane and Jesse Matthewson, both CPAs from Winnipeg, touring the world with their metal band KEN mode

Features | From Pivot Magazine

These CPAs are also Juno-winning metalheads

1.18.2019 | Matthew Halliday

How Winnipeg brothers Shane and Jesse Matthewson balance accounting careers with life on the road as KEN mode

Cover of Seth Godin's book This is Marketing

Features | From Pivot Magazine

The secret to standing out in a saturated marketing world

1.17.2019 | Brian Bethune

Seth Godin’s new book tells marketers to dream big and think small

Features | From Pivot Magazine

The waterbed is making a comeback (really)

1.16.2019 | Matthew Hague

The iconic 1970s mattress returns with an even sexier pitch: a better night’s sleep

Fahad Tariq

Features | From Pivot Magazine

How a Toronto CPA turns poop into power

1.15.2019 | Katie Underwood

As the founder of a non-profit that turns excrement into energy, Fahad Tariq isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty

Features | From Pivot Magazine

Recycling ocean plastic is the future of sustainable packaging 

1.14.2019 | Matthew Hague

Combing the world’s oceans for discarded plastic isn’t cheap or easy, but it pays off in the long run

A stressed looking young businessman sitting on the walkway of an office building

Features | From Pivot Magazine

Skills—not jobs—are the key to conquering the labour market

1.11.2019 | Francis Fong

Canada has a healthy labour market and record-low unemployment. So why are we so worried about work?

Features | From Pivot Magazine

The Arctic wants to be Canada’s next tourism hot spot

1.10.2019 | Matthew Halliday

A determined group of indigenous entrepreneurs is opening the north for business

photo of business person holding butterfly net with illustration by Leeanandra Ci of currency with wings

Features | From Pivot Magazine

The trouble with taxing the gig economy

1.9.2019 | Peter Shawn Taylor

If the CRA doesn’t figure out how to tax the gig economy, it risks losing billions

Features | From Pivot Magazine

Why Quebec is betting big on Bitcoin

1.8.2019 | Martin Patriquin

The province courted crypto miners with affordable energy. Will they stick around when the digital gold rush ends?

Canadian currency hanging from a clothes line outside to dry

Features | From Pivot Magazine

How CPAs fight the flow of dirty money

1.7.2019 | Joy Thomas

The more professional accountants in a country, the less corrupt it will be

Close up of woman's face reflecting into monitor showing information and data

Features | From Pivot Magazine

What Ottawa’s corporate reporting overhaul means for CPAs

1.4.2019 | Bruce Ball

Big changes are coming to corporate record-keeping requirements, but Ottawa still owes the profession some answers

Illustration of woman driving with a thought bubble, and inside is a light bulb

Features | From Pivot Magazine

How forced downtime can lead to brilliant ideas

1.3.2019 | Jason Kirby

Bill Gates is just one of the bright minds who set aside time to do nothing but think

Load More