CAmagazine - 100th anniversary 1911-2011

This year marks the 100th anniversary of The Canadian Chartered Accountant which was first published in July 1911. The journal was the "Official Organ of the Dominion Association of Chartered Accountants" (now The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants). The journal continues to live on as CAmagazine, the leading accounting publication and preferred information source for Canadian chartered accountants (CAs) and financial executives. It provides a forum for discussion and debate on professional, financial and other business issues. The magazine is published in English and French 10 times a year (with combined issues in January/February and June/July) by The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. CAmagazine.com acts as a complement to the print edition, providing web-only articles and news of interest to CAs, digital archives and a search function.

Insolvency then and now

Bankruptcy figures have been climbing. At June 30, 2010, 145,233 Canadians had filed for bankruptcy or a consumer proposal in the previous 12 months. While last year’s figures represent an increase of 33.7%, bankruptcy numbers have grown from less than 1,000 in the 1960s to 2,700 in 1971 and 19,000 in 1980. This has raised the profile for insolvency practitioners in the accounting profession. Read "Insolvency then and now" in the January/February 2011 CAmagazine online.

About the past, present and future of the Internet

It's the year 2000, and the Internet "is making the world a very different place for us," says Canadian Internet expert Jim Carroll. In this January 23, 2000 episode of Mansbridge One on One, Peter Mansbridge interviews Carroll about the past, present and future of the net. The typically optimistic Carroll does express a few fears. He worries the current Internet business boom could soon crash in a big way. "There's something massive going on here, but it doesn't mean we need to throw out our collective sanity." View the interview at CBC Digital Archives. Also read about current perspectives in Jim Carroll's regular column in CAmagazine online.

Canada Says Hello: The First Century of the Telephone

If the telephone wasn’t born in Canada, it was certainly conceived here. In 1874, in Brantford, Ontario, inventor Alexander Graham Bell first described the scientific principle that would convey the human voice over wires. By the Second World War, Canadians led the world in talking by telephone. Later they reached out to each other and around the globe with long distance calling, transatlantic connections and predictions for the future. Read the online features, watch television clips (including “Telephones go transatlantic” originally broadcast on January 14, 1957) and listen to numerous historical radio clips at the CBC Digital Archives.