Ten Quick Tips to Improving Your Business Presentation
Whether we enjoy them or not, we all need to do presentations at some point in our careers. Here are ten quick tips to ensure the presentation goes as smoothly as possible. Practice in front of an audience. Nothing is better than having the opportunity to practice in front of people – they can tell […]
Signs of a Recovering Economy
In the fourth quarter last year, Canadian labour productivity experience its largest gain since the first quarter of 1998 (1.4 per cent). As well, manufacturing sales were up 2.4 per cent in January – this was unexpected, as economists had been expecting a 0.6 per cent gain. (Source) So what does this mean for us? […]
A little bit of Northbridge History
We stumbled across an article in an old volume of Exchange Magazine profiling our CEO, Sol Algranti. Before forming NorthBridge, Sol worked in the manufacturing industry for many years, where he learned about the SR&ED program and how to successfully claim for it. Soon he was helping associates and friends put their claims together – […]
10 Quick Tips for Networking
Arrive at any networking events early, and stay late. The majority of the networking typically happens after or before an event takes place. If you arrive early, you can both prepare yourself mentally for the event and meet those others who arrive early. Afterwards, the discussion will likely be more relevant to what happened at […]
Canada gets D for innovation
The Conference Board of Canada issued a report on Tuesday on the state of Canada’s innovative abilities. Unfortunately, although we have the world’s best R&D funding program, we do not seem to rank very well on the global scale of taking the innovation we do and profiting from it. In fact, we ranked “14th among […]
Surviving Foreign Competition
Aggressive offshore competition isn’t new to us here. Let’s face it – it can be tough to survive when products similar to yours can be purchased for a fraction of the price from a company that doesn’t even operate in Canada. This can lead to a huge reduction in sales, can result in non-profit situations, […]
Upcoming Seminar
Join us on February 11th, 2010 at the Thornhill Golf and Country Club for a complimentary breakfast and an introduction to the SR&ED program. Learn how you can benefit from a program that annually provides over $4 billion to companies in Canada; this is the largest source of refundable tax credits in Canada, and only […]
Upcoming Changes to the SR&ED Program
A press release has been issued about some upcoming changes to the SR&ED program. A few points mentioned by Minister Blackburn today, while addressing the 13th Annual Tax Practitioner Information Session, relate to upcoming changes to the SR&ED program: starting on April 1st, 2010, reviewers will be spending more time explaining the program (requirements, application […]
What about failed projects?
We often tell people that failed projects are embraced by the SRED program, and sometimes it can be a little hard to understand exactly why. I mean, isn’t the program meant to promote innovation, and to encourage technological development? If so, then why are projects that don’t result in a more innovative product or process […]
Recovery of Economy
According to a release from TD Economics today, the world economy is expected to expand by 3.8% in 2010. While this is positive, they also mention that the road to recovery will not happen easily, or overnight. While the recovery is underway, the report suggests that it will not develop the “head of stream” that […]