I recently tried out EditGrid, in response to a post by Dennis on recent enhance­ments. I had already been using Google Spread­sheets a little bit, but not too much, because, quite frankly, it just wasn’t all that intuitive. I consider myself a fairly advanced Excel user, and Google Spread­sheets just didn’t have the same level […]

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Work-life balance is a topic that comes up frequently in the accounting profession. Robert Half, a recruiting company, surveys accoun­tants occasionally. 38% of accoun­tants take the office with them on holiday in the form of either a laptop or handheld computer. The research also found that 34% of accoun­tants globally admit to working in the […]

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Bill Kennedy’s getting it done at Energized Accounting, a relatively new blog hosted by Google’s Blogger that so far has been host to some inspi­ra­tional posts for me. The latest is all about a favourite topic of mine, data visual­ization: If you want effective commu­ni­ca­tions, you have to take respon­si­bility for both the sending and […]

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Canada’s CAs have announced guidance for a key metric of income trusts, that of distrib­utable cash. The term ‘distrib­utable cash’ generally refers to the cash that an income trust could poten­tially distribute to unit holders. Investors use this infor­mation when assessing the entity’s ability to fund future distri­b­u­tions and to help value their invest­ments. But […]

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