We are advisors

to our clients as they work to cope with a complex, rapidly changing world. It’s a long term commitment.
Accountants & Advisors for a Complex World™

Assurance Public and Private

Public Companies - Audit & Assurance

Would you be surprised to learn that MSCM provides Audit services to publicly owned companies that compare in every respect to what is offered by Canada’s so-called “Big 4”?

Would you be surprised to also learn that MSCM provides those same services at a cost that is significantly lower than the Big 4?

Our commitment to building a partner team with the required skills, training and experience has given us the ability to serve the national audit needs of virtually any size firm. In fact, more than 40% of our practice is in the public sector.

Each of those clients can access a complete range of audit services, in full confidence that their compliance and reporting requirements will be met on time, every time.

Equal service. Lower Costs.
We are proud of our ability to provide extremely high levels of professional public audit service at a cost that is significantly lower than the Big 4. The difference is in our organizational model, which allows partners and senior staff to work effectively and manage our clients’ audits with maximum efficiency.

MSCM is a Registrant of:

(Canada) Canadian Public Accountability Board (CPAB)
(USA) Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)

MSCM is licensed to audit reporting issuers on any stock exchange in North America.

Private Companies - Audit & Assurance / Non-Assurance

The backbone of our business is our ability to provide exceptional accounting and audit services for privately controlled businesses, large and small, all across Canada, and wherever else in the world their affairs need support.

Our dedicated Owner/Manager Enterprise Group is trained and organized to take the complexity out of the audit/accounting function and make it efficient, effective and pain-free for our entrepreneurial clients.

Our long term commitment is to working with clients to help them meet their goals, so we take a “hands on” approach – and unlike other well-known and larger firms, that means hands-on by partners. MSCM partners are involved during the entire year - not just at year end.

 

Public Companies - Assurance Services

  1. The security of Independent assurance of regulatory compliance.
  2. Independent assurance on regulatory financial statements
  3. Comprehensive design and implementation of a risk-based compliance control framework and monitoring programme
  4. Help in establishing a suitable compliance culture

Assessment Services

  1. Industry peer benchmarking.
  2. Assessment of your current and future regulatory risk profile
  3. Impartial review of your compliance department’s effectiveness
  4. Evaluation of the impact of new regulations on your business model

Advice and Assistance

  1. With regulatory relations and in meeting regulatory standards and expectations
  2. With getting your business authorized by a regulator
  3. In dealing with regulatory enforcement actions and remediation exercises

Private Companies - Business Planning

  1. Forming and reorganizing businesses
  2. Structuring redemptions and liquidations
  3. Buying and selling businesses and major assets
  4. Planning executive compensation
  5. Analysing investment tax credits, where applicable
  6. Improving cash flow by deferring taxes
  7. Analysing lease/purchase decisions

Building Family Security

  1. Preserving wealth through estate planning
  2. Realizing charitable goals
  3. Analysing liquidity needs
  4. Keeping a family business in the family
  5. Use of life insurance

Investment Decisions

  1. Analysing the tax aspects of proposed investments and tax shelters
  2. Understanding after-tax returns
  3. Planning annual income taxes
  4. Maximizing cash flow

Coping With Changing Laws

  1. Keeping you aware of changes
  2. Making new laws work for you
  3. Avoiding pitfalls
  4. Relating tax changes to your plans and objectives

Preparation of Tax Returns

  1. Preparing timely, accurate income tax returns
  2. Establishing and keeping tax records
  3. Preparing personal, corporate and trust returns
  4. Tax audit preparation

Using New Technology

  1. Analysing tax alternatives with automated techniques
  2. Strategizing income and taxes

Accelerating tax answers

  1. Taxation research software
  2. Electronic filing of returns