I have been playing around with Windows Live Local lately, Microsoft’s competition for Google Maps. I decided to map all the clients where I’ve been in the last year with my firm. For the blue ones I just had to search for the business name, but the red ones represent clients that I had toContinue reading “Mapping out my clients after a year in public practice”
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Materiality in auditing
Materiality is a concept in auditing that attempts to set a dollar value guideline for the scope of evidence testing at the substantive level, analytical procedures, and to a lesser extent, controls testing. According to Krupo: “Materiality is the smallest misstatement of a company’s finances that would cause a person to change how they valueContinue reading “Materiality in auditing”
Another one bites the dust?
MK Braaten is calling it quits and giving up making regular (or any, for the foreseeable future) posts on his conservative Canadian political blog. I’ll always be grateful for his link to me (now broken), a fellow Canadian accountant. I always liked reading your blog, good luck in the future!
Amazon’s 1-click patent to be reexamined
It was recently announced that Amazon.com‘s 1-click payment patent will be reconsidered by the USPTO, but what is so interesting is that it was not filed by one of Amazon.com’s business competitors or by an NPO like the Electronic Frontier Foundation which protects online freedom, but from a New Zealand actor who paid the reexaminationContinue reading “Amazon’s 1-click patent to be reexamined”