It’s that time of the year again and I’m feeling nostalgic. It was just over a year ago last year when I learned that I had passed the final hurdle to obtaining my much sought-after CA desig­nation (notwith­standing that pesky experience requirement which continues to elude me), the UFE. This year’s results are out this Friday, […]

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If you’re subscribed to my RSS feed, you don’t need to check the site itself to receive any updates I make in terms of posts (or comments, made by everyone, in the case of the comments RSS feed). In that case, you may not have noticed yet that I’ve added a new “section” of sorts […]

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Scotland is beginning to sound a lot like Alberta: The booming oil price is fuelling an accoun­tancy recruitment crisis in Aberdeen as other firms struggle to match the salaries being paid by the cash-rich energy companies. Multi­na­tionals such as BP, Shell and Schlum­berger are taking advantage of the near-record price of a barrel to pay […]

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If you want to keep up with this blog but don’t want to have to remember to check back on a regular basis, one option available to you is the RSS feed. RSS (Really Simple Syndi­cation) is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or […]

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Materi­ality is an important concept in auditing. The point of an audit is to certify the financial state­ments as being free of material misstatement. A material misstatement is one which would affect the decisions of a user of those state­ments. This recent blog post at the VeraSage Institute, more known for their pioneering work in […]

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