Digital Archives for Chartered Accountants

A 1945 Vocational Guidance Film on Bookkeeping and Accounting is available for viewing online at the SEC Historical Society website . T...

The October 1962 edition of CAmagazine discussed the “ Need for reform in the Bankruptcy Act .” It stated that: “Bankruptcies and the...

Ten years ago, Arthur Andersen was forced to surrender its licences in the United States after the Enron scandal, precipitating its glob...

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) celebrates its 125 th anniversary in 2012. Founded in 1887, the AICPA i...

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is the global body for professional accountants with 147,000 members and 424,00...

A lecture called “The Official Duties of Chartered Accountants” was read before the Manchester Chartered Accountants' Students' Soci...

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and its predecessors have a history dating back to 1887, when the American A...

The roots of Ernst & Young go back to the 19th century and its founders Arthur Young and Alwin C. Ernst. Arthur Young was born in Glasg...

In October 2001, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) published A Future for the Accountancy Profession: The Quest fo...

A 1986 report by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) states (on page 5): “The Canadian CA profession - like the accountin...

In response to mounting concern over money laundering, the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) was established by the G...

Election to the Accounting Hall of Fame is perhaps the only longstanding national award for accountants -- and probably the only internat...

It has been almost 40 years since Canada overhauled its tax system, eliminating estate duties and bringing in capital gains tax. Since 1972,...

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) is the world’s first professional body of accountants, receiving its Royal Charte...

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), one of the world’s largest accountancy firms, was created in 1998 through the merger of two firms, Price Wate...

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Quebec City CA Group and the 130th anniversary of the Ordre des comptables agréés du Québec (OCA...

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia (ICABC) celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2005. It was marked with events, art...

There are approximately 72,000 Chartered Accountants (CAs) in Canada. Nearly half (33,000) are Ontario CAs. CAs work in large and small busi...

In Canada, KPMG's roots date back to 1840. Since that date, more than 115 firms in communities across Canada have joined forces to creat...

BDO Canada LLP is both new and old on the scene. In January 1992, the Canadian accounting firms, Dunwoody & Company and BDO Ward Mallett...