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August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
March 2010
January 2010
- Survey says: IA feeling the squeeze
- Payroll system conversion horror story
- Survey says: ERM implementations maturing
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
- Continuous auditing
- Dueling perspectives on internal audit
- IIA: Keep internal and external audit separate
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
- Programming and auditing
- Dropbox makes USB drives obsolete
- Changes to GAAP for private companies in Canada
- IASB and FASB can't get on same page
- How the risk of a pandemic might affect your company
- News the new way
- Return to blogging
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
- Explaining the virtues of testing
- Financial statements using Flash
- Today I am a CA
- Mid-busy season update, part deux
February 2008
- Mid-busy season update
- Changeover to IFRS confirmed for 2011
- Interview for a job, get paid
- A little help for the transition to IFRS
- Asset impairment and writedown leads to blogging abyss
January 2008
- Are small-caps better served by mid-size firms?
- IFRS and principles too weak to work?
- Staff retention at midsize firms charts new waters
- Facebook as the intranet
December 2007
- Do we have a software valuation issue?
- Two types of accountants
- Audits don't happen randomly
- Cigarettes and the complexity of the tax code
- Enron chronicle provides some holiday reading
- Experience requirement completion date nears
- Hedge funds looking for accountants
- Grant Thornton UK swallows Robson Rhodes whole
- SEC delays Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for small businesses
- Ten principles of sound tax policy
- BDO chooses blogging partner to head up international network
- Protecting the public interest, Web 2.0 style
- How Bruce Schneier secures his laptop
November 2007
- UFE results this Friday
- The tumblelog
- Soaring price of oil leads to shortage of accountants
- Using RSS to keep up with your favourite sites
- Taking the wraps off materiality
- Value creation mode isn't just from 9 to 5
- Using wikis or blogs to manage knowledge in firms
- Traditional partnership model being tossed aside
- Preview Microsoft Office 2007 in the browser
- Bring in specialists to build niche practices
- Variety and experience at mid-size firms
- Canada gets a variety of tax cuts
October 2007
- Grant Thornton insists client remove Chairman, is removed as auditor
- How to read the Income Tax Act
- IT audit training for me this week
- Capital gains exemption limit increased to $750,000
- EditGrid betas Excel plugin
- Big Four and Mintz again part of Top GTA Employers list
- Estate tax as income tax
- Who audits Google?
- Professional 2.0: beacon or buzzword?
- EditGrid User Survey response
- Google's 20% time at accounting firms?
September 2007
- Develop a corporate blogging policy
- The best place to launch a career
- Banning Facebook sends the wrong message
- Canadian dollar flirts with parity this week
- Work-life balance: KPMG sued in Canada
- Spreadsheets: My thoughts on EditGrid
- Work-life balance: Laptops on holiday
- Accounting gets a shot of adrenaline
- Income trusts get distributable cash standard
August 2007
- Annual review a chance to look forward and back
- Sucks to be Seidman
- Stewie and Brian debate a flat tax
- Back from Punta Cana
- Most Chartered Accountants want interesting work above all
July 2007
- Are accounting standards public enough?
- Pay off debt, then start saving and investing
- How to pick an accountant for your online business
- The value of blog postings and comments
- Mid-tier firms offer better experience
- Inching towards international accounting standards in the US
- CA Magazine knows information wants to be free
- Big Four dominate professional services globally
- Audit choice and competition in UK and G8
- Firm using Facebook to recruit in Toronto
- Lotteries are just regressive taxes
June 2007
- Forced ranking at accounting firms?
- BDO Seidman using SugarCRM to manage office network
- Audit committees recognize IT risks should be a focus
- Reflections on the week just past
- When will I be a CA?
- Weekend reading
- Are you an employee or independent contractor?
- re: A new auditing and accounting blog
- 8 quick facts about the principal residence exemption
- BDO Dunwoody merges with Goodman Rosen
- Canadian CA logo gets updated
- FreeAgent simplifies small business accounting like no other
- Improving education through vouchers
May 2007
- Blogging is the new graduate school?
- Rolling assets into a corporation and deferring the capital gain
- Intel laptop for the extremely mobile professional
- 6 quick facts about the capital gains exemption in Canada
- Twitter for accounting professionals?
- Financial statements as high-tech, informative entertainment
- 7 quick facts about the new financial instruments standard
- Google improves Analytics and now I’m in on it!
- What is the length of the ideal blog post?
- The power of unique names in the age of Google
- UFE Report is out… Finally!
- Experts weigh in on interest deductibility issue
- Your business needs a Backbone
- BDO and Grant Thornton decide against merger
- Economist claims accountant obsolescence
- Canadian government backs down on controversial budget move
- Grant Thornton UK merges with RSM Robson Rhodes
- Hollinger audit committee had “no finance experts”
- Alberta kiboshes plan for single Canadian securities regulator
- Facebook vs. LinkedIn for accounting professionals
- Spring has sprung for Canadian accountants
April 2007
- Bizarre taxes to put our situation into perspective
- BDO and Grant Thornton in Canada discuss merger
- Office atmosphere should be frenetic, fluid
- Income trust foreign takeovers may be a good thing
- Scots tout principles in the Big Apple
- Impossible to hide
- Simplifying VAT in the UK compared to GST in Canada
- AMT woes south of the border - what about us?
March 2007
- City budget indecipherable to ordinary citizens
- Budget move likely to discourage global expansion
- Auditor, noun: an accountant with a grudge
- Mind maps made productive for public accountants
- Microsoft plunges into social networks with accounting and finance site
- Cell phones become mobile
- Shared office space can preserve scarce cash
- Using blogs as marketing tools
- Making business sense with Macs
- Update on public company auditing in Canada
- UFE study materials available
- Accounting news roundup
February 2007
- CA Convocation an evening of celebration
- Busy season, what is it good for?
- UFE buddy for everyone
- IT departments are not leading innovation in firms
- The Web is no longer linking information: it's linking people
- Apple's "select" listing on the Nasdaq in jeopardy
- Congratulations from my Member of Parliament
- Exxon Mobil's profits and taxes: both records
- Canadian audit overseer reports problems and solutions
- TransitCamp set to improve the TTC
- Blogs can be important marketing tools
January 2007
- UN auditors will examine North Korean program
- Blogs catching on for BDO in the UK
- FIN 48, auditor confidentiality, and increasing the minimum wage
- Movie stars and the IRS, Ban Ki Moon, and the Top 100 Places to Work
- The Sarbitch is back
- My busy season has begun in earnest
- Study shows how hard it is to cancel accounts
- An alternative view of Khodorkovsky and Yukos
- PricewaterhouseCoopers accused of ‘false’ auditing for Yukos
- AccMan gets a fresh coat of paint
- Conrad Black vows to regain business empire
December 2006
- Canadian bank "shakes" Enron related audit rules
- Accounting has returned to Nashville
- Quit today, get hired back tomorrow
- First vacation from work
- The case for digitized perm files
- MADD situation shows charities have many stakeholders
- Shell and reporting sustainability
- Sharpening the axe in auditing
November 2006
- ‘Tis the season for giving links
- The exam is over, time to study
- Back to work after passing the UFE
- Success!
- Income trust standards (or lack thereof) and risk
- Vista not even out yet but still pirated
- Big 6 accounting firms call for changes
- BlackBerry maker getting the probe on options backdating
- That quaint value pricing fad
- Income trusts in Canada to be taxed after all
October 2006
- The [professional services] sky is falling!
- Always have exact change
- The CA Advantage: Marketing the profession
- The other upside to income trusts
- UFE results dreams begin
- Canadian Finance Minister to address Chartered Accountants
- Income trust tax loophole gaining popularity
- Mining Wikipedia for accounting topics
- Simpler corporate income tax filing requirements
- List of links to pages with lists of links to accounting blogs
- New Jersey legislates tax on iTunes downloads
- Pension brouhaha south of the border
- Now that's a niche
September 2006
- Attending inventory counts
- RSS is supposed to be Really Simple
- Incorporate or not: It's the investment
- The Ernst & Young theme song
- Global ethics and international accounting standards
- Why the estate tax is a good thing
- Chuck Norris audit jokes
- Loading springs and dodging bullets
- The UFE in the spotlight
- UFE studying winds down
- MBA vs. CA - which is better?
- Apple brings in new director: Google's CEO
- Novell investigating its options grants
August 2006
- Kent Brockman's accountant Myron
- Accountant convicted over hit on client
- Options backdating investigation not making the SEC any friends
- Google the mutual fund company
- Accounting change results in magic surplus for Ontario government
- Love tax theory, hate tax application
- Microsoft invites Firefox developers to test for Vista
- Microsoft splurges on more Microsoft stock
- Casual Fridays become Casual Weekdays
- Engagement letter update
- Clients are the best part of my job
- Google Analytics is open to all
- Go west! Or east, or north, or south!
- Hosting my neilmcintyre.ca email with Google
- Abolish the property tax rant
- Saga of Semco continues
- Unorthodox management style is paying off for Semco
- Improving cash flow through better payables management
- Accounting is prestigious
- Emerging markets are exciting, but risky
July 2006
- Sell your services over the phone using Ether
- No new international accounting standards effective before 2009
- First options backdating investigation initiated by SEC
- Passed the School of Accountancy
- What Enron meant to me
- Using MySpace to market professional accounting services
- Google continues to improve Spreadsheet
- Depicting Waste Management fraud to enhance understanding
- How to prevent the fake supplier fraud
- FASB's new man talks advanced accounting topics
- Online whiteboard perfect for collaboration
- School of Accountancy comes to an end
June 2006
- Digg expands to cover more than just tech stuff
- Buffett donates fortune to charity, is accused of avoiding estate tax
- Toronto becoming more expensive to live
- Tangled web they wove
- NAFTA super highway to accelerate North American trade
- School of Accountancy through July 4
- FASB and AICPA seek small, private company input
- SEC looking into auditors in options backdating investigation
- Ferro and KPMG disputing audit opinion
- Google spreadsheet app will not catch on
- More discussion of rules versus principles
- Lease accounting to get overhaul
- Bank of Canada chief pushes smarter provincial sales tax
- Does the media understand public accounting?
- Auditor laptop stolen, confidential data included
- Broad base and low rates = recipe for tax fairness
- Delving into union contracts
May 2006
- Mapping out my clients after a year in public practice
- Materiality in auditing
- Another one bites the dust?
- Amazon's 1-click patent to be reexamined
April 2006
- Pressure to decrease gas taxes is misguided
- Nortel completes latest restatement
- Busy season comes to an end!
- First day of trading for Corel on the Nasdaq
- Feedburner ad network launched
- The ideal tax system
- The Dell-Alienware deal, a few weeks later
- Keep the income tax cuts, ditch the GST cut
- Top ten coolest laptop cases
- Electric atmosphere at Jays opener
- Alcatel buying Lucent for $13.5 billion
March 2006
- Building and rebuilding in the GTA
- Toronto's subway a likely terrorist target
- Google’s foray into web storage
- Nortel's revenue recognition wrinkles
- Corporate intranets and their effects on productivity
- Revenue recognition and Nortel
- Toronto's building wi-fi network downtown
- Wireless internet theft affects us all
