Posts in FPCBO
Currency Hedging with Shane Slater | E088

On today's episode we have Shane Slater, Corporate Currency Specialist from the FirmaFX. He will talk about foreign exchanges, how it impacts business owners and how you can do better than just taking what the bank or your credit card will give you and how that can materially change your margins sometimes, depending on how the better rate you are paying before.

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Financial Statements Basics: Part 5, with Jason Pereira | E087

Today is the 5th part of the continuation of a series that Jason is doing on understanding financial statements. On this episode, Jason will be talking about various accounts such as notional accounts and capital dividend accounts. He will be explaining further about RDTOH, refundable dividend tax on hand and safe income in this series on understanding your Financial Statements. Jason explains what are notional accounts? These are accounts that exist in your financial statements. They have to be tracked by your account separately and reported to CRA. Some of them, not all of them yet, but they are all being reported.

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Financial Statements Basics: Part 4, with Jason Pereira | E086

Today is the 4th part of the continuation of a series that Jason is doing on understanding financial statements. Today, Jason is going to focus on cash management and working capital because cash is your lifeblood of a business. He will give you a framework for how to work with the cash because the accounting books and looking at that just don't give you the full picture. He will be explaining all the queries related to cash flows in your business.

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Financial Statements Basics: Part 3, with Jason Pereira | E085

Today is the third part of the continuation of a series that Jason is doing on understanding financial statements. Today, Jason is going to talk about accounting ratios. Accounting ratios are used to analyze your business in several different ways. First, it’s helpful to track the performance of your business in multiple different facets, from its solvency to its profitability to its efficiency. It also is a valuable tool if you can combine comparing the help of your business with another business.

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Financial Statements Basics: Part 1, with Jason Pereira | E083

On today’s episode, Jason Pereira will review financial statements, how to read them properly, and what different terminologies mean. There are all kinds of rules about how depreciation impacts different types of business, and it’s also known as capital cost allowance in Canada.Today, Jason will discuss income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and ratios.

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Islamic Finance with Mohamad Sawwaf | E080

Today, we are going to deal with Islamic finance and the challenges it brings to people who follow that faith, particularly business owners, and how those restrictions around Islamic finances can be adapted to many of our current financial structures that are not supportive of it. But there are options, and to discuss that, we have Mohamad Sawwaf, co-founder of a company called Manzil.

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HR Law with Ellen Swan | E073

In today’s episode, Jason Pereira talks to Ellen Swan. She is a Barrister and Solicitor at Caravel Law. Ellen has a specialization in HR Law, and Jason brought her on the show to talk about best practices when bringing on, maintaining, and firing your staff and even addressing what to do during Covid with some of these more interesting cases for dealing with.

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Steps In An Estate Freeze with Chris Sabat | E070

On this episode of Financial Planning For Canadian Business Owners, Jason Pereira talks to Chris Sabat - General Counsel McMillan Estate Planning. Today Chris is going to talk about a deeper dive into statement freezes. We have covered a freeze in the past, but specifically today, we are going to go over a little bit more around the thinking and the mechanics of how you execute an estate freeze and why?

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