Recently, the findings from an inves­ti­gation by the Toronto Star into charities have been released in the paper and they are not good for many charities, primarily MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) Canada. The Star found that the charity spends only about 19 cents for every donor dollar on programs designed to help victims of […]

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This piece in the Globe and Mail was inter­esting: Shell was early with “sustain­ability reporting” (their first annual sustain­ability report was published in 1998). They currently have a goal to have their (self-reported) green­house gas emissions 5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2010, similar to the Kyoto Protocols. The story was about Shell’s CEO […]

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A post today at VeraSage provided a perfect metaphor for audit planning: Once upon a time, there were two lumber­jacks who challenged each other to see which one could cut down more trees in a day. At daybreak, the first one began furiously chopping down trees. He worked up a sweat and by noon he […]

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Dan Meyers of Tick Marks is caught up in the spirit of giving in his own way — he’s revis­iting his special 12 Blogs of Christmas from last year around this time and giving us all a refresher on the more memorable posts from the accounting blogos­phere from the year nearly ended. Since my blog […]

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Ever finish an exam and then decide to study? Me neither, until the UFE came along. Don’t get me wrong, I studied (hard) before writing the exam too. I wrote every case from the past three years’ UFEs, and some more after that. But now I want to study the ones from the 2006 UFE. The UFE […]

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