Busy season is upon me and I’m up to my eyeballs in work. It’s Friday night but I’m relaxing at home, trying to chill out and prepare for a full day at the office tomorrow. Got out early tonight, at a mere 6:30pm! Needless to say it’s affecting my blogging frequency. And hearing about lunch […]

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Tom Spring of PC World conducted an unsci­en­tific study into how difficult it is to cancel subscription services purchased over the internet, and the results are in. It’s not easily done. To evaluate how difficult canceling an online service can be, I signed up for and then canceled 32 accounts, each at a different site. […]

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At least one person is defending Putin’s actions against Yukos and its former president, Mikhail Khodor­kovsky, but it was this that caught my eye (emphasis mine): Russian oligarchs were taking control of the entire Russian economy. These people had a strangle hold on every aspect of Russia and were basically out of reach of the […]

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The Russian tax authority has accused Price­wa­ter­house­C­oopers of providing “false audits” to the former oil giant Yukos. I’m sure we’ll find out sooner or later whether these accusa­tions have any merit, but for the time being any government insti­tution in Russia is most definitely not getting the benefit of my doubt. Putin and his regime are […]

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One of the premier accountant blogs on the web has gone through a complete redesign and looks fantastic. Dennis Howlett’s AccMan is, according to the tagline, about “innovation for profes­sional accoun­tants,” and the design reflects this innovation focus very well. The theme is modeled after the blog of Bartleme Design, which is one of my personal […]

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