The complete CPA Canada Handbook – Accounting and Assurance, CPA Canada Public Sector Accounting Handbook, Management's Discussion and Analysis, Criteria of Control Publications and the Risk Oversight and Governance Collection.

The CPA Canada Standards and Guidance Collection contains the official pronouncements of CPA Canada. It will help you:

• access up-to-date accounting and assurance information immediately
• move between hundreds of cross references instantaneously
• search for any word or phrase and find all the relevant references at once
• copy text from your infobase, then transfer it to a file which can be used by any word processing package

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CPA Canada Standards and Guidance Collection (CPACHB)

CPA Canada Handbook – Accounting

The CPA Canada Handbook – Accounting reflects the Accounting Standards Board's strategy for adopting different sets of financial reporting frameworks for different kinds of entities. As part of your electronic subscription to CPA Canada Handbook – Accounting and Assurance, updates will be posted as they become available:

• Part I & IV – International Financial Reporting Standards and Accounting Standards for Pension Plans
  
  
• Part II & III – Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises and Accounting Standards for Not-for-Profit Organizations
  
  
• Part V - The pre-changeover accounting standards containing a complete set of the archived CICA Handbook – Accounting contents as of December 2009

CPA Canada Handbook – Assurance

The CPA Canada Handbook – Assurance reflects the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board's adoption of the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) as Canadian Auditing Standards (CASs). The CASs come into effect for audits of financial statements for periods ending on or after December 14, 2010. Electronic access consists of :

• the Preface to the CPA Canada Handbook – Assurance;
  
• CSQC 1, Quality Control for Firms that Perform Audits and Reviews of Financial Statements, and Other Assurance Engagements;
  
• Canadian Auditing Standards;
  
• Other Canadian Standards; and
• Assurance and Related Services Guidelines.
  

CPA Canada Public Sector Accounting Handbook

The CPA Canada Public Sector Accounting Handbook provides you with all the information you need on accounting and assurance as it relates to the public sector. It contains the accounting standards for federal, provincial, territorial and local governments and government organizations.

Risk Oversight and Governance Collection

Part of an ongoing series of Boardroom briefings written under the guidance of prominent business leaders, these publications will help board members to:

• Ask tough questions;
• Recognize signs of success and signs of imminent problems;
• Take action to achieve the practices of leading organizations; and
• Reflect and learn for the future.

Management’s Discussion and Analysis

Management’s Discussion and Analysis provides principles and a framework to help preparers identify and organize appropriate information for their MD&A disclosures, emphasizing aspects of existing regulation and, in places, adding dimensions that go beyond existing regulation. The framework provides a structure for preparing a fact-based disclosure document that gives a reader the ability to look at the issuer “through the eyes of management”.

The CPA Canada Standards and Guidance Collection is available as a web-based collection. Updated with each CPA Canada Handbook release. Click here for a full listing of CPA Canada Handbook products.