I have often wondered whether the tradi­tional method of providing audited financial state­ments to clients is really serving them as well as we could be. We print them up on nice thick paper with the firm’s letterhead and spiral bound the package with a tasteful, under­stated title page, followed by our solemn audit report. Is […]

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The Canadian Accounting Standards Board (AcSB) has finalized some new sections of the Handbook which include guidance on accounting for financial instru­ments. Financial instru­ments include invest­ments, hedges, deriv­a­tives, and loans and receiv­ables. The Canadian standard attempts to harmonize our GAAP in a way with FASB Statement 133, “Accounting for Deriv­ative Instru­ments and Hedging Activ­ities,” and […]

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This weekend was the first long weekend of the summer here in Canada. On Fridays before long weekends at my firm we get the after­noons off, so around 1pm everyone clears out and gets an early start on the rest of the cubicle dwellers around the Greater Toronto Area. I took the oppor­tunity to do […]

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Modern Life Is Rubbish is a cool blog written by Stuart Brown that seems to feature a never-ending flow of posts on topics of interest to bloggers and technophiles alike. The latest is titled “How Long is the Ideal Blog Post?” and details some inter­esting and no doubt time-consuming research the blogger did into blog […]

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The Wall Street Journal has published an article recently titled “You’re a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well” that’s been making the rounds on various popular blogs. Reminds me of what I found when I Googled myself a short while ago. I took a screen shot of it and put it on my Flickr. In […]

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