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 to […]

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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 value […]

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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!

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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 reexamination […]

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