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Are you a CPA firm in Canada looking for help with quality management documentation? Look no further than Clearline Consulting! Our team specializes in creating and maintaining CSQM1 quality management system documentation for CPA firms in Canada. Here are the top 5 benefits of engaging with our team: Expertise: Our team is knowledgeable in Canadian … Continue reading “5 Benefits of Engaging with Clearline Consulting for Quality Management Documentation for CPA Firms in Canada”

The new quality management standards, in short, are good. They encourage all firms to consider the specifics of their firm, their clients, and the types of engagements they perform when designing the firm’s specific quality control procedures. This allows smaller firms to scale back the processes and procedures to address only those areas which are … Continue reading “Implementation of the new Quality Management Standards for your Firm”

CPA Canada has released is new Quality Management Guide subscription. This product is a replacement for the previous Quality Assurance Manual (QAM) and discounts are available if you purchase this subscription prior to October 31, 2022. At a discounted cost for CPA Members of $319 the resource is well worth the trade off of your … Continue reading “New Quality Management Guide (QMG) Released”

The new quality management standards are effective for assurance engagements as at December 14, 2022. As at this date the firm’s system of quality management (‘SOQM’) needs to have been developed and implemented.  All non-assurance engagements have an additional year, until December 14, 2023, to be incorporated into the firm’s SOQM.  As the quality management … Continue reading “Quality Management Suite of Standards”

CAS 315 – Revised, is a difficult standard change to outline concisely. The impact of this standard change, which includes over 200 pages of application guidance, may be very pervasive depending on your current audit approach.  In order to assess the potential impact of this change you will need first assess how compliant your audit … Continue reading “Revised Risk Assessment Standards for Audits – CAS 315”

The new Agreed-Upon Procedures standards are coming into effect. The effective date is based on the date of the terms of agreement (engagement letter) which provides practitioners with a little wiggle room as to when these new standards are adopted.  For any terms of agreement reached after January 1, 2022 the new standards are effective. … Continue reading “Agreed-upon Procedures Engagements”

In an October 2020 exposure draft, the Accounting Standards Board (“AcSB” or the “Board”) proposed several improvements to Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises (“ASPE”) and Accounting Standards for Not-for-Profit Organizations (“ASNPO”). The following is a summary of the proposals. First-time adoption: The Board proposes to permit that an enterprise / organization re-adopting ASPE or ASNPO … Continue reading “2021 Annual Improvements to ASPE”

At its meeting on January 21, 2021 the Auditing & Assurance Standards Board (“AASB”) approved the new Canadian Standard on Quality Management (“CSQM”) requirements. The new standards will replace the existing Canadian Standard on Quality Control (“CSQC”) 1, Quality Control for Firms that Perform Audits and Reviews of Financial Statements, and Other Assurance Engagements that … Continue reading “New Quality Management Standards to Impact all CPA Firms”

The Audit and Assurance Standards Board (AASB) published a consultation paper on January 15, 2021 in relation to its draft strategic plan for 2022-2025. Key factors that they have considered in their strategic plan are the longer term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic such as the negative impacts on the economy and changes in business … Continue reading “The AASB Contemplates the Future of Assurance”

It is not the complexity of the new standard that will cause significant disruption to firms, it is the sheer volume of files that need to be transitioned. With resources currently available through your professional engagement guide subscription and related training sessions we recommend you get started before tax season is upon us once again. … Continue reading “CSRS 4200 Transitioning to the New Compilation Engagements Standard”

With continued tax filing deferrals and finalizing all those December and March year-ends, the summer was busy.  We were looking forward to a bit of a slower pace this fall when the first June year-ends started to come in.  The full realization of the significance of the accounting impact related to COVID subsidies and programs … Continue reading “COVID-19: Accounting for the Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA)”

By Jay Sprio,  Yeager & Company Law Corp., Barristers & Solicitors When the COVID-19 pandemic hit home in BC in March, many firms closed their offices and moved to remote work, while others remained open with new temporary measures to protect staff and clients. As many firms now begin re-opening their physical offices to safe … Continue reading “WorkSafeBC COVID-19 Employer Requirements”

Back in its Compilation Engagements exposure draft the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AASB) indicated that it had not yet formed a view as to whether the proposed new standard Canadian Standard on Related Services (CSRS) 4200 should be subject to quality control requirements at the firm level and at the engagement level. The current … Continue reading “Are Quality Control and Monitoring Standards Coming to Compilations?”