FEI CANADA 2011 ANNUAL REPORT

STRATEGIC UPDATE – YEAR IN REVIEW
• GOVERNANCE AND RISK – Wrote several articles
for FEI Canada’s Finance and Accounting
Review (FAR), gave their expertise to our
CFERF “Beyond the numbers: Evolving
leadership role of the CFO” report, and
responded to the CICA’s invitation to
comment: “A framework for board oversight
of enterprise risk”.
Michael Conway and Peter Effer, Chair of FEI Canada’s
tax committee, testifying at FINA
• PENSIONS – Submitted a comment and
presented to the WSIB funding review,
submitted several articles to the FAR, and
studied issues such as increased tax deferred
annual contributions and maximum tax
deferred pensions from deferred benefit plans.
IPAC meeting at the 2011 FEI Canada conference
• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY – Studied
the IT impact of IFRS, XBRL, cloud computing,
and worked with CFERF on the “Enterprise
mobility: Executive perspectives on mobile
business applications” report.
• PRIVATE COMPANY ISSUES – Commented on
the AcSB’s proposed Accounting Standards
for Private Enterprises, contributed to the
development of several webinars, created
HST issue alert for FEI Canada members,
and assisted in the planning of the third annual
SME conference.
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