CA Magazine might be freely giving away their content for the benefit of all stake­holders in the CA profession and public accounting in general, but the goodwill doesn’t extend to the CICA when it comes to Canadian accounting and auditing standards. The CICA, through the Accounting Standards Board (AcSB), develops public accounting standards through a […]

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I took the plunge this weekend and expunged my debts to the depths of the hell from whence they came. It was a tough move for some reason, even for a cold, calcu­lating accountant. Subcon­sciously, I held on to the debt in order to keep my asset balances high. Artifi­cially high. This is a bad […]

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Choosing an accountant for your business is always a delicate endeavour. It’s incredibly important for your accountant to under­stand your business thoroughly, inside and out, backwards and forward. So, for some non-traditional businesses (i.e. profes­sional blogger), this can be tricky to say the least. A post titled How to pick an accountant for your online business […]

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It was a long time ago in internet years that I started reading Dave Winer’s blog, Scripting News, and even longer since I started reading Jakob Nielsen’s writings on his site, useit.com. These two are truly pioneers of the digital age, with Winer instru­mental in the devel­opment and promotion of RSS and Nielsen writing the […]

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So says this recent story on Accoun­tancy Age, quoting a Cantos interview with the ACCA’s head of devel­opment, Tony Osude: “If you went to one of the mid-tier firms, one of the beauties about being there is you might not be paid as much neces­sarily, but you have much more hands on experience. You can expect […]

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