Canada’s mid-sized companies, a key economic engine, saw their numbers decline by 17% – 9,370 to 7,814 – from 2006 to 2010, shows a study by the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC). Hardest hit was the manufacturing sector, which saw over half its mid-sized firms vanish between 2001 and 2010 from 2,807 to 1,381. […]
Information on tax credits, government funding or private financing is hard to come by. So how do you get this information for business owner clients?
Almost half of aging Canadians envision becoming entrepreneurs during retirement.
Make sure business-owner clients have drawn up these documents.
Those words strike fear in a business-owner client. Explain you’re there to help.
Continuing uncertainty about the global economy and measures the United States might take to deal with its budget deficit has pushed net optimism among North American CFOs in the fourth quarter of 2012 to its lowest level of the year, shows the Deloitte CFO Signals survey. The decline was particularly large in Canada, where net […]
Wannabe franchise owners pose a special challenge, says David Wilton, director of small business for Scotiabank.
A dairy farm owner wanted to hand the operation to his son. But the two argued often, and dad wondered if they shared the same goals.
Succession planning is essential to a business’s survival. Once your client’s ready to talk about letting go, help him identify his successor. This allows an aging owner to retire on short notice; for instance, if a sudden health issue arises.
Early-stage IT companies in Canada will receive $100 million in funding.