The [professional services] sky is falling!

If you’re into this sort of thing, you have probably noticed that about 95% of accounting related blogs are focused on the impending death of professional services firms, because of course all PS firms have lost the plot and have ceased to be useful to business. I can’t even link to all of the accountingContinue reading “The [professional services] sky is falling!”

Always have exact change

This struck me as sort of interesting, possibly useful, and probably a little compulsive. One blogger’s way of slowly using change is to carry the optimal number of each denomination of coin in his pocket. Everyone has coins they want to get rid of. I randomly thought of an easy way to carry change andContinue reading “Always have exact change”

The CA Advantage: Marketing the profession

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Canada has recently launched a new ad campaign extolling the virtues of the designation. The campaign shows CAs joining various sports teams and helping the team. The message: CAs can complement your business’ existing expertise. Here’s the copy from one of the print ads: Sometimes even great teams needContinue reading “The CA Advantage: Marketing the profession”

The other upside to income trusts

I wrote a post about BCE converting from a corporation to an income trust a couple days ago that set off a veritable firestorm of comments from a few readers. It quickly became the most commented on post here, which is pretty cool. So with that in mind I jumped at the chance to blogContinue reading “The other upside to income trusts”