Got the email from the ICAO this afternoon at about 4:30. I was accepted as a member (i.e. a Chartered Accountant) on the March 24 committee meeting! So, with that, my blog has no purpose. It all began shortly after I passed the CKE in early 2006, and you’ve been following my journey down the […]

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The silence from this blog lately has been deafening. Time to pick the low-hanging fruit and churn out something, anything, to let my readers know I’m not dead yet. First of all, my buddy Krupo’s been cranking out quality, enter­taining posts every other day it seems. In this latest post on unions, he lays the smack […]

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I’ve been very busy the past week at a job out of town, which continues this week. Blog posts have slowed to a trickle again. It’s the first job I’ve been on that is away from home, but it hasn’t been too bad and the hours we’ve been working aren’t excessive for busy season. There […]

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The Accounting Standards Board of Canada has confirmed recently the changeover date to IFRS for publicly accountable for-profit organi­za­tions, set for periods beginning on or after January 1, 2011. The announcement is available in PDF format. It sounds like we’re going to have to know and be able to apply two sets of principles, as private […]

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A blog I follow, JobsintheMoney’s CareerWire, has drawn my attention to a very inter­esting site, especially for in-demand profes­sionals such as accoun­tants. The site is called NotchUp and allows employers to pay to interview job candi­dates who otherwise wouldn’t be looking for a new job. Associated Press has the lowdown: How it works: You plug in […]

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