Product categories now include books and computer hardware, with computer software and magazine subsciptions to be added soon. In addition to published reviews from magazines and newspapers, users are encouraged to post their comments and opinions. The new site includes a more personable look and feel, easier to use navigation structure, more accessible resource and news areas, and new features such as a press room for the benefit of the media. Customized areas have been developed for CGA members in Canada and abroad, as well as members of the media. The Resource Centre contains CGA-Canada publications on changing trends in taxation, practice management, financial planning, and other areas of business.
Users can also find links to other accounting and business information sites.
Fifty years ago, a computer with less computational power than a modern pocket calculator filled a whole room, and ran programs consisting of only a few hundred instructions. Today we can fit the extensive software needed to drive a World-Wide Web server into a computer the size of a box of matches. Pratt's server uses a 486 processor and runs Linux. Smaller and poorer schools are now just as likely to have Internet connections as larger and wealthier schools. The residential loan maker ordered 4,500 notebook computers to issue to its sales force throughout the country.