Public needs, public purse

Article Abstract:

Every country's citizenry demands and expects that their taxes are spent as efficiently possible and proportionately allocated to services that are most useful to the public. To this end, the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants released guidelines for government agencies from the local to the federal level on how garner cost information on their varied services and how to use this information for assessing and improving their performance. The strategy combines activity-based costing techniques with activity-based management strategies.

Public Finance Activities, Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs), Public Services Administration, Cost Accounting, Expenditures-Total Govt, Methods, Evaluation, Civil service, Expenditures, Public, Public expenditures, Allocation (Accounting)

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Learning to live with risk: a new CICA research report examines current approaches to risk management in the ever-changing arena of investment funds

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Issues concerning investment fund risk management by audit committees, boards of directors, auditors, senior managers and regulators are discussed. Particular attention is given to a new report from the Investment Funds Institute of Canada entitled 'Assessing Risks & Controls of Investment Funds.'

Asset & Risk Management, Analysis, Management, Investments, Risk management

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A matter of principles

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Rate-regulated businesses in Canada such as public utilities have been exempted from certain accounting procedures for many years. In 2001 more of these companies have become deregulated or are changing and their accounting standards are under discussion.

Usage, Industry regulations, Government regulation of business, Trade regulation, Rate regulation

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