A little late, but a blog post at CFO.com about the level of service a small-cap public company can expect to receive from a Big Four auditor compared to a mid-size firm seemed interesting enough to share: CFO.com reader Kunal Ganguly wrote us to say a company of Catapult’s size, with its $102 million market [...]
Entries from January 2008 ↓
Are small-caps better served by mid-size firms?
January 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Category: Auditing
Tags: Big Four, Catapult Communications, Deloitte, small cap, Stonefield Josephson
IFRS and principles too weak to work?
January 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Al Rosen, in the second of a three part series in the Financial Post about the transition from Canadian GAAP to IFRS: IFRS is too weak in its current form for investors to accept on par with current Canadian standards. Nonetheless, we are on course to implement IFRS in just three years. He quotes and [...]
Category: Accounting Standards
Tags: Al Rosen, Arthur Levitt, Canadian GAAP, GAAP, IFRS
Staff retention at midsize firms charts new waters
January 9th, 2008 · No Comments
An article in WebCPA talks about the steps midsize firms in particular are taking to ensure their young people stay put: More midsized firms are starting to address this issue by paying attention to what younger people need to stay engaged. Some are including younger staff members in more significant firm decisions through advisory boards; [...]
Category: Profession
Tags: accounting firm, client retention, mentor, partner, staff, staff retention
Facebook as the intranet
January 3rd, 2008 · 4 Comments
When I first heard about the company using Facebook as their intranet, I wasn’t sure what to think. Serena Software is really replacing its existing intranet with Facebook as a front end linked to a low-cost content management system behind the firewall. The firm is just over 800 employees but is still globally based (operations [...]
