For Canadian banks, asset managers, accounting firms, listed companies and family offices.
Financial work doesn’t forgive sloppy terminology. A footnote misclassified as a liability, a tax rate translated as a rate not an amount, a "subsidiary" rendered as "branch" — any of these can move a number on a filing or trigger an auditor query.
Prism Linguistics translates audit reports, financial statements, prospectuses, securities filings, fund factsheets, M&A documentation and tax returns for Canadian banks, accounting firms, asset managers and listed companies. Linguists are matched by accounting standard expertise — IFRS, ASPE, US GAAP or other local GAAPs — and the work moves through our documented TEP cycle (Translation, independent Editing, Proofreading) under signed NDAs by default.
Document types we deliver most often for Canadian financial sector work.
Year-end audits, interim reviews, consolidated and standalone statements, notes to the accounts. Big Four working-paper expectations met.
IPO prospectuses, bond offering memoranda, fund factsheets and Fund Facts / ETF Facts documents — with regulatory disclosure language preserved verbatim.
OSC / CSA securities filings, FINTRAC reporting and equivalent foreign-regulator filings. Sanctions and AML / KYC documentation handled under restricted-access protocols.
Share purchase agreements, due-diligence reports, vendor data rooms, disclosure schedules. Tight turnaround windows accommodated.
CRA tax returns and filings, transfer-pricing studies, BEPS Pillar Two filings, FATCA / CRS reporting, foreign withholding documentation.
Earnings call scripts, analyst day decks, press releases, shareholder communications — with brand-voice consistency across languages.
The accounting and regulatory frameworks our linguists are trained on.
Translators on financial work are matched by standard — IFRS, ASPE, US GAAP or other local GAAP — with terminology consistency across consolidation, segment reporting, leases (IFRS 16 / ASC 842), revenue (IFRS 15 / ASC 606) and financial instruments.
Filings for Canadian securities regulators follow CSA plain-language disclosure guidance where required, while preserving foreign regulatory disclosure language where mandatory. English and French versions kept aligned for bilingual disclosure documents.
Every financial engagement is NDA-bound. Restricted-access teams, encrypted transfer, deletion from active systems after delivery on request. Material-non-public information handled to insider-list standards.
Mandatory TEP cycle on every certified project: Translation, independent Editing by a finance-trained reviewer, then Proofreading. Documented at the project level.
A typical engagement, start to finish.
Secure intake via encrypted upload. NDA signed within the business hour. Scope, accounting standard and binding written price returned within 60 minutes.
Linguist matched by sub-sector — banking, asset management, insurance, fund administration, tax — with documented prior work.
Existing client glossaries imported. New term decisions documented and confirmed with your team for cross-document and multi-year consistency.
Translation, independent editing, proofreading, then delivery in your preferred format. Free revisions if auditors or regulators request a change.
Surge-capacity teams on standby for audit and annual-report seasons. Send the file for a binding written price in 60 minutes.
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