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Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises 

Which way will you go? Whether IFRS or Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises, leaders of Canadian private companies are facing a choice. Deciding which accounting framework is the right option for the future of your business is an important one.

 

Insight 

 

Accounting Standards for Private Companies - An Update
Canadian private enterprises are required to adopt either International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) or Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises no later than their first fiscal year beginning on or after January 1, 2011.

 

This webcast provides an update to the “made-in-Canada” financial reporting framework for private enterprises and share recent experience in implementing ASPE for private companies. Register Today.

 

Focus on Financial Reporting
2011 Annual Update

Canadian private companies face either a new financial reporting framework or some element of change to the standards they have historically applied. Read the annual report to identify and address reporting developments that may affect your company.

 

Credit, Capital and Financial Reporting

 

 

Canada’s new simplified accounting standards for private enterprises require significantly fewer financial statement disclosures than the predecessor generally accepted accounting principles. Read about the lenders' view about the impact of a reduction in disclosures and access to capital or credit in this Executive Research Report published by the Canadian Financial Executives Research Foundation (CFERF), the research institute of FEI Canada, in partnership with KPMG EnterpriseTM.

 

Accessing Credit or Equity Capital – The Role of Financial Reporting

 


Over 100 representatives of the lending, private equity, and venture capital communities share their views regarding private company disclosures in deciding to grant credit or capital.

 

Issues in Private Company Reporting

 

 

 

One in four of Canada's leading private companies plan to adopt IFRS. This Executive Research Report 

collaboratively prepared by the Canadian Financial Executives Research Foundation and KPMG EnterpriseTM examines private company financial reporting.

 

 

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Implications to Implementing ASPE
Listen to learn about implications experienced when implementing accounting standards for private enterprises (ASPE) as companies transition to the new accounting standards framework for private enterprises. Listen now.

 

CFO TV:Credit, Capital and Financial Reporting
Watch moderator Bob Young, Partner Risk Management and Professional Practice for KPMG Enterprise shares research results and leads a panel to discuss the implications related to private companies and users of their financial statements.View the video

 

IFRS for Private Companies - Possible U.S. Models

Brought to you by the Global Enterprise Institute, listen to KPMG and FEI in the U.S. provide an overview of the simplifications and deletions compared to full IFRS and insight into Canadian private company GAAP, an international update, and what U.S. private companies can consider.

 

How we can help

KPMG Enterprise professionals can provide insight to both frameworks, their relative implications and explain what it will mean for your business.  They can help map a timeline and process to ensure a smooth transition.

 

 

News & Publications

 

 

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Dennis Fortnum

Dennis Fortnum

Canadian Managing Partner, KPMG Enterprise

416-228-7232

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