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Mastering Total Cost Reporting: New Requirements for 2026

Navigate Canada's Total Cost Reporting (TCR) changes for 2026. Gain a comprehensive understanding of new regulatory requirements to ensure full compliance and enhanced transparency.

Created byMaple Ledger Institute
BeginnerUpdated Dec 1, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleIdentify TCR's regulatory origins.
  • check_circleDistinguish CRM2 from TCR disclosures.
  • check_circleInterpret MER, TER, and FER calculations.
  • check_circleTranslate percentages to dollar costs.
  • check_circleApply new CIRO reporting requirements.
  • check_circleLeverage service providers for compliance.

About This Course

Welcome to "Mastering Total Cost Reporting: New Requirements for 2026." This course is meticulously designed for financial professionals, compliance officers, and investment fund managers navigating the comprehensive overhaul of cost disclosure regulations in Canada, effective January 1, 2026. This pivotal shift, colloquially termed CRM3, expands upon the CRM2 framework by mandating absolute transparency in all investment-related costs.

By the end of this course, you will be equipped to:

  • Understand the regulatory amendments from National Instrument 31-103 to the Individual Variable Insurance Contract Ongoing Disclosure Guidance.
  • Differentiate between CRM2 and Total Cost Reporting (TCR) requirements, especially concerning embedded fees.
  • Accurately calculate and report the Management Expense Ratio (MER), Trading Expense Ratio (TER), and the aggregated Fund Expense Ratio (FER).
  • Prepare for the operational "go-live" on January 1, 2026, including data capture, system upgrades, and reporting timelines for the first annual reports in 2027.
  • Interpret the role of the Total Cost Reporting Implementation Committee, CIRO amendments, and the implications for U.S. investment firms.
  • Leverage new data for enhanced client transparency and informed decision-making, moving beyond price to true value assessment.

Through detailed modules exploring the regulatory evolution, scope, calculation methodologies, and operational imperatives, this program will guide you in mastering the transition to full transparency required by the Total Cost Reporting regime.

Course Content

5 activities • 20 videos • duration: 1h

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Fundamentals of Total Cost Reporting (TCR)4 videos • 11 min
  • videocamDefinition and Objectives of TCR
    Duration 3:07
  • videocamRegulatory Origins and Stakeholders
    Duration 3:00
  • videocamImplementation Timeline and Effective Dates
    Duration 2:56
  • videocamEvolution from CRM2 to TCR
    Duration 2:42
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Disclosure Requirements and Fee Calculations4 videos • 11 min
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CIRO Regulatory Amendments and Exemptions4 videos • 10 min
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Operational Implementation and Industry Solutions4 videos • 12 min
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Investor Impact and Value Assessment4 videos • 14 min

Your Instructor

Maple Ledger Institute

Advancing Accounting Excellence Across Canada

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Maple Ledger Institute provides continuing professional development for Canadian accountants, finance teams, and advisory professionals. Our programs are designed to align with CPA provincial body requirements, covering evolving standards in assurance, taxation, financial reporting, and ethics. We specialise in delivering practical, up-to-date CPD that reflects the realities of Canadian regulatory frameworks and the rapidly changing financial landscape.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

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    Eric L.
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    Yes, i produce financial statements for investment fund so understanding the importance of identifying and capturing Cost is very inciteful.

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