IR Leader
June 16, 2015

Call for Entries - 2015 Awards of Excellence in Corporate Reporting

Enter before July 10, 2015.

Top notch corporate reporting is important to your investors. Enter the Awards of Excellence in Corporate Reporting this year and see how your reporting measures up against other listed Canadian companies.

Here are three excellent reasons to enter:
  • Demonstrate your commitment to high quality reporting;
  • Send a strong confident message to investors by putting your reports up against the best in  the country; and
  • Receive a confidential assessment, including comments from the judges.  
“The awards showcase the best reporting models in the country but the program is about more than just bragging rights,” explains Kevin Dancey, president and CEO, CPA Canada. “It’s about participants striving to be the best through continuous improvement. In addition to recognizing winners and their leadership, the awards also provide an excellent platform from which to develop even stronger corporate reporting practices.”

Entries close July 10, 2015. Please visit the CPA Canada website for more information.
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Invest In Your Career. Be CIRI Certified!

Recognizing the need for formal education in the field of investor relations, CIRI and the Richard Ivey School of Business (Ivey) have developed a program that covers all relevant areas of this multidisciplinary role including capital markets, corporate governance, securities law, finance and communications.

This program is intended for experienced investor relations professionals, individuals working closely with investor relations professionals, and individuals who have corporate experience in a related field and are interested in gaining a solid understanding of the investor relations role.

For more information about Certification, contact Salisha Hosein or visit the Certification section on CIRI.org. 

Enrol in the CIRI/Ivey IR Certification Program before June 20th, 2015 for your chance to win a free enrolment in the 2015 CIRI/Ivey Finance and Accounting Tutorial.

The objective of this tutorial is to provide a crash course on transactional analysis and the accounting cycle, including the preparation of the balance sheet and an income statement. Many of the fundamental accounting concepts, including money measurement, entity concept, going-concern concept, matching concept, etc., will be discussed as well as the difference between accrual accounting and cash flow. In addition, time value of money will be discussed in order to understand the basics of valuation. | Complete Article |

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Canadian Mergers & Acquisitions - A Guide for Foreign Investment Banks and Bidders

An informative reference for foreign bidders and investment banks, Davies' Canadian Mergers & Acquisitions guide has been fully updated for 2015. Drawing on our extensive experience in multijurisdictional merger and acquisition transactions, this guide provides an insight into the types of Canadian acquisition transactions and related regulatory considerations.

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Canadian Securities Regulators Seek Comments on Application of Order Protection Rule to Marketplaces Imposing Systematic Order Processing Delays

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today published for comment proposed amendments to the Companion Policy to National Instrument 23-101 Trading Rules. The proposed amendments provide an interpretation of the application of the Order Protection Rule (OPR) with respect to marketplaces that impose a systematic order processing delay (commonly known as "speed bumps").

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The Impact of Financial Reporting Periods on M&A Success

While the success of a merger or acquisition may be best determined over a long time horizon of several years, investors tend to have a shorter-term view of what constitutes success or failure in M&A.

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'It's Simply Not Good Enough': OSC Chair Warns Legislation May Be Needed to Get More Women on Boards

Howard Wetston, chair of the Ontario Securities Commission, says he's disappointed in some of the early response to a regime put in place to get more women on corporate boards, and he acknowledged that legislation may ultimately be needed.

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OSC Rebukes Firms for Lack of Action on Gender-Diversity Rules

Many companies have shown bare "technical compliance" with new gender-diversity reporting rules introduced this year and it is "simply not good enough," Ontario Securities Commission chair Howard Wetston says.

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SEC Takes a Step Toward Finishing Hotly Demanded CEO Pay Rule

The 2010 Dodd-Frank bank reform law mandated the agency make a rule to require public companies to disclose the ratio of CEO pay to the median paid employee. It took three years to come out with a proposal, and after 22,860 comments, it's still working on a final rule.

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The Holy Grail: What LTI Measures Drive Corporate Performance?

Choosing the right metrics, and applying them consistently, are keys to improving executive and corporate performance.

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Why Some Investors Dread Proxy Campaigns

Near the end of activist investor Nelson Peltz's high-profile proxy battle at DuPont (DD), Standard & Poor's issued a "negative rating outlook" for the chemical giant, largely due to its dispute with the well-known insurgent.

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CFOs Get Into the Spirit of Tweeting

Surprisingly, they 'tend to reveal more personal affinities and interests' than do other top executives, a new study says.

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Torys Gender Diversity Study Spotlighted by Globe and Mail

Torys' soon-to-be-released annual publication, Capital Markets Mid-Year Report 2015, features 'Women in the C-Suite: Can Securities Law Advance Gender Equality?' - an analysis of how public companies in Canada have responded to new gender diversity rules that have come into effect this year. Partner and co-head of the Capital Markets Practice, Rima Ramchandani, discusses the impact of the rules for a Globe and Mail article covering the highlights of our study.

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