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Expense account surveillance services are being used by companies to monitor employee expense accounts for possible fraud. Employees have been terminated because of fraud, with some high-level executives and public officials even going to jail.

As Christina Romer settled in to provide the latest economic update for U.S. lawmakers last week, they no doubt braced for another round of brutally frank and frankly chilling discussion [...]

On March 31, WestJet announced a promotion that tapped into the uncertainty many struggling consumers feel today. Tickets bought over the ensuing week came with an innovative price guarantee. If [...]

It's just before 11 a.m., and a small group of men in scuffed sneakers and blue jeans have assembled on the courthouse steps in Stockton, Calif. They're here for what's [...]

In 2004, Paul Kasriel fired a shot across the bow of American optimism. The soaring housing market had crossed into the danger zone, he warned. Prices were rising far faster [...]

When saddled with debt and short on cash, the best way to cope with testy creditors is to keep your cool and convince them you're not a deadbeat. President-elect Barack [...]

Every Thursday, Kim Kent's bosses at Cooper Standard tack a list of names to the wall. Cooper is an auto parts plant in Stratford, Ont., that makes rubber door trim [...]

A few years ago Kelly Hollingsworth could have been described as a woman who had it all. A young money manager living in the U.S. Virgin Islands and then New [...]

For more than a decade, Trish McAuliffe and her husband, Jim, have lived with a financial sword hanging over their heads. Trish and Jim went to work for General Motors [...]

The worst job Robert Meggy ever had, bar none, was working as a 'pea-viner' in B.C.'s Fraser Valley. A pea-viner, for the uninitiated, takes the unholy tangle of harvested pea [...]

Perhaps it's best to start with the good news. The sudden slowdown in Canada's housing market in recent months could simply turn out to be a hiccup. The carnage racking [...]

Twenty years from now, everyone in the financial world will remember where they were on the weekend of Sept. 13-14, 2008. They 11 talk about how they got the news [...]

For a simple fertilizer company, Potash Corp. has found itself the subject of some lofty comparisons over the last year. 'The Google of fertilizer' was how one financial blogger described [...]

Last week, US Airways announced it was ripping the entertainment systems out of its planes flying domestic routes. The move would lighten the aircraft by 500 lb. and reduce fuel [...]

By almost any measure it was a thriving enterprise, with subsidiaries in eight countries and a flourishing distribution business. Even more impressive, it was run out of Vancouver, a city [...]

This coming June, voters in Mongolia, all 1.4 million of them, go to the polis. 'Mongolia Votes 2008' may not have the same urgent ring to it as that other [...]

ALL TOLD, CANADA occupies 9.1 million sq. km of land. But as the first release of population data from the 2016 census shows, the vast majority of that land sits [...]

GAS PRICES ARE on the rise, but not all parts of the country are feeling the pinch equally. On a year-over-year basis, cities in Newfoundland and Alberta have seen the [...]

USING WORLD BANK land-mass figures, we matched up countries that are roughly the same size as each Canadian province. The result is an unusual contrast that gives a sense of [...]

STATISTICS CANADA RECENTLY released GDP estimates for Canada's biggest cities, a level of detail the agency doesn't usually offer, and the numbers drive home how massive Toronto's economy is. At [...]

This was not the Saskatoon Alex Trauzzi remembered. A few years ago, Trauzzi, 24, had been drawn to the Prairie town for work and grew to love it. He met […]

Everybody's financial picture is unique. That's why there's a booming industry in dispensing money advice. But if you're going to try to run a household these days, there are a […]

From the moment the United States government came into being in 1789, it was in the red. Saddled with a US$78-million debt from the revolutionary war, a fledgling Congress made […]

Michael Sabia, the chairman and CEO of BCE, desperately wants you all to know something. In fact, he'll tell anyone who'll listen. You've heard all the nasty talk about how […]

You know Canada's economy is on a tear when house prices in Saskatoon skyrocket nearly 50 per cent in six months; when even northern outposts like Sudbury, Ont., are joining […]

Quincy, a two-traffic-light town in the foothills of central Washington state, seems about as far away from the cutthroat world of American capitalism as you can get. This is farming […]

IF the past few months have taught us anything, it's that things that seem impossible sometimes happen. Britain would never give up membership in the European Union, four decades after [...]

Blunders made during planning for retirement and a number of mistakes that according to financial planners are relatively easy to avoid are discussed. Nine retirement blunders to be avoided according to experts are listed.

Day one of my working vacation in Montego Bay, and already I'm staring down the barrel of an assault rifle. Fortunately, the man with his finger on the trigger is [...]

A chilly mist quickens my steps as I stride through the tiny village of Doolin in County Glare. I'm drawn by the muffled sound of the bodhran drums and fiddles [...]

Milestones are an opportunity for reflection, and the 75th anniversary of Canadian Business is no different. So, in the fall of 2002, the editors and writers set about collecting and [...]

What would Benjamin Graham think about all this? The collapse of stock prices, we mean. To listen to the gang on the Street, you'd think the market malaise of the [...]

There's something surreal about life in the Far North. As you bounce along the dusty, potholed sheets of Rankin Inlet in Nunavut, past the multicolored prefab hailer homes, you realize [...]

If you want Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to play a starring role in your own personal epiphany, all you need to do is wave around a cool couple mil'. [...]

You know you're spending too much time on airplanes when... Well, just ask Jeff Orr, CEO of Winnipeg-based financial planning powerhouse Investors Group Inc. (TSX: IGI). It's been just over [...]

It's very refreshing to listen to Walter Schroeder, founder and president of Dominion Bond Rating Service Ltd. (DBRS) of Toronto, as he lays into the balance sheets of some of [...]

In February, Fishery Products International Ltd. (TSE: FPI) backed away from a plan to buy privately held Clearwater Fine Foods Inc. of Nova Scotia under mounting pressure from community critics [...]

What do you say when a billionaire challenges you to a pushup contest on the floor of his company's boardroom? It's late January and a blizzard is pounding Burlington, Ont., [...]

Unless you got into the wireless game early, you've probably been burned. The airwaves are littered with the near-worthless remnants of failed wireless ventures and overly optimistic revenue projections. It [...]