Entries from May 2007 ↓

Blogging is the new graduate school?

May 31st, 2007 · 7 Comments

That’s the title of a post written by Ryan Healy for the Brazen Careerist blog. It’s an inter­esting concept, on that JobsintheMoney’s CareerWire blog picked up on as well: Blogging is a way to deal with the biggest problem at the beginning of one’s career: No expertise. If you offer intel­ligent opinions or advice on a […]

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Rolling assets into a corporation and deferring the capital gain

May 30th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Generally when a dispo­sition of capital property occurs, a gain or loss is recog­nized. Occasionally the dispo­sition results in no real change to the economic interest of the property, like when an individual transfers property to a corpo­ration they own. A rollover provides a way to defer the gain or loss. Section 85 of the Income […]

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Intel laptop for the extremely mobile professional

May 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Intel’s Metro laptop concept is causing quite a stir and for good reason. The thing is a svelte 0.7 inches thin and 2.25 pounds, making it the slimmest and one of the lightest portable computers ever conceived. According to this BusinessWeek feature, Intel may produce the machine as early as later this year. But why would […]

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6 quick facts about the capital gains exemption in Canada

May 27th, 2007 · 21 Comments

Yesterday I was visiting my parents back home on the farm and enjoying a lazy Saturday afternoon away from the big city. In exchange for some really great ice cream, my Mom asked me for some tax advice related to the lifetime $500,000 capital gains exemption. Long story short, she was under the impression she […]

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Twitter for accounting professionals?

May 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Dennis wrote a post a few days ago about Twitter within “a business context” entitled “The pain of disruption”: I want to DO something with Twitter. The more I think about what Twitter might deliver, the more scary it becomes. Twitter challenges my ingrained notions of how services and value are delivered. In case you […]

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