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FARM ACCOUNTING IS INCREASINGLY SPECIALIST AND PROFITABLE NICHE SERVICE



As farms and agricultural organisations face changing accounting demands from legislatures and financial institutions around the world, accountants face greater pressures to develop specialised agricultural knowledge.

Indeed, accounting services provided to the farming industry within the European Union (EU) are becoming increasingly important, notably because of reforms to the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), experts have told Accounting & Business.…

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EU-CANADA DEAL SHOULD PROMOTE TRADE AND TRANS-ATLANTIC WORK ACCESS FOR ACCOUNTANTS



THE COMPREHENSIVE Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) concluded between the European Union (EU) and Canada in September is expected to significantly promote trade and investment between the EU and Canada. The agreement will scrap tariffs, open service sectors, and guarantee investment.…

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EU FUEL QUALITY DIRECTIVE BREAKTHROUGH EXPECTED IN SEPTEMBER



THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) oil refining industry is looking at September as the time when the European Commission may propose a new way to implement the bloc’s fuel quality directive (FQD). This would break a deadlock of almost three years, with Brussels tabling its last proposed technical rules on how the 2009 law should work in October 2011.…

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CANADIAN STEEL MARKET SHIFTS WESTWARD TO GROWING ENERGY HUB



Market dynamics are shifting east to west for the Canadian steel industry as demand from the country’s flourishing oil and gas industry outstrips traditional manufacturing.

Requiring CAD4 billion’s (USD3.76 billion) worth of steel annually, the country’s energy industry, overwhelmingly based in western Canada, currently represents more than a quarter of country’s demand for steel, which totals CAD14 billion (USD13.17 billion) annually, according to the Canadian Steel Producers Association (CPSA).…

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CANADIAN COSMETICS ASSOCIATION WELCOMES PROGRESS AT INTERNATIONAL REGULATORS MEETING



Regulators participating in the International Cooperation on Cosmetics Regulation (ICCR) met in Ottawa, Canada for their annual meeting (July 8 – 10) to discuss how member countries could better harmonise regulatory requirements and standards, promoting trade, among their cosmetics and personal care industries.…

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CANADIAN BOOK MARKET DEPENDENT ON ‘BLOCKBUSTER’ TITLES



The Canadian book industry’s increasing reliance on best-selling “blockbuster” titles is causing significant rise and fall in yearly sales, according to the CEO of Canadian book sales service not-for-profit group BookNet Canada.

Noah Genner was speaking after Canada’s largest book retail chain Indigo felt the effects of there being no major selling title in 2013 – the company recently reported a significant net loss of CAD31 million in 2013, compared to profits of CAD4.3 million the year before.…

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CANADIAN PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT SECTOR OPTIMISTIC OVER EU TRADE DEAL



THE COMPREHENSIVE Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union (EU) and Canada has prompted hopes within the Canadian personal care industry that it can seize more future sales in Europe’s huge market. Industry figures told Soap Perfumery & Cosmetics that while they welcomed the duty reductions arising from the deal which was agreed in principle last October, what really encourages them is the prospect of regulatory harmonisation between the EU and Canada.…

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EU INSISTS ON PED TESTS FOR LIVE PIGS IMPORTED FROM THE USA AND CANADA



LIVE pigs imported from the USA and Canada will henceforth be tested for porcine epidemic diarrhoea (PED) to prevent the disease being introduced to Europe from north America.

The controls have been approved by the European Union’s (EU) standing committee on the food chain and animal health (SCOFCAH).…

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US AND CANADIAN DISTRIBUTORS COOPERATE OVER CLOUD-BASED SERVICES FOR CANADA LIBRARIES AND SCHOOLS



US-based Baker & Taylor and Canada-based Whitehots Inc have agreed to cooperate in offering Canadian libraries and schools a one-stop, cloud-based platform to acquire and distribute print and digital material. “What was missing in the [Canadian] market was a Canadian company that was able to sell both print and digital materials to Canadian public and school libraries,” said Russ Culver, CEO of Whitehots.…

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TORSTAR SAYS IT HAD NOT SOUGHT COMMERCIAL SUITOR FOR HARLEQUIN



CANADA’S Torstar Corp has told the Bookseller that it was not looking to sell its stake in romance novel publisher Harlequin Enterprises Limited, but the offer from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp was too good to pass up.

Torstar spokesman Bob Hepburn said yesterday (Tuesday): “Torstar had not been looking to sell (Harlequin), it has been and remains profitable.”…

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