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Lack of transparency in calculations, insufficient context and significant variations by issuer and industry, a “stronger tool was needed to take appropriate regulatory action”, said the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) when they first presented their new set of rules to regulate disclosure of non-GAAP financial metrics. That was in 2018.

Many comment letters and three versions later, we now have the final version of the National Instrument 52-112 Non-GAAP and Other Financial Measures Disclosure (the Instrument).

Unlike the existing guidance on non-GAAP financial measures (Staff Notice 52-306), the new Instrument has the force of law. This means that the “adjusted earnings”, “adjusted EBITDA”, “free cash flow”, “pro forma earnings” and other financial measures of this world will soon be the target of much scrutiny, because the new Instrument, while short, is accompanied by a 20-pages long Companion Policy, which clearly spells out the intention of the legislators.
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Après près de quinze ans de règne paisible, les exigences relatives à la déclaration d’acquisition d’entreprise (« DAE ») applicables aux émetteurs non émergents sont sur le point d’être assouplies.

Aux termes des modifications proposées, un émetteur assujetti qui n’est pas un émetteur émergent devra déposer une DAE uniquement si deux des trois critères de…

After almost fifteen years of undisturbed reign, the Business Acquisition Report (BAR) requirements for non-venture issuers are about to be relaxed.

Proposed amendments will require that non-venture issuers file a BAR only if two of the three existing significance tests are triggered, as opposed to only one, and the triggering threshold for such significance tests…