September 2011

• I need to be Certified

March 2011

• Integrate social media efforts across marketing and customer service

February 2011

• Five years of blogging… Sort of

December 2010

• Top traits of an effective internal auditor

November 2010

• IIA and ISACA pool resources and expertise

October 2010

• CA ad campaign: Decisions Matter

August 2010

• Enter­prise risk audit planning

July 2010

• Outsource internal audit for greater objectivity

June 2010

• Opening up Outlook’s data format

March 2010

• E&Y: Internal Audit should drive strategy

January 2010

• Survey says: IA feeling the squeeze
• Payroll system conversion horror story
• Survey says: ERM imple­men­ta­tions maturing

December 2009

• Internal audit at Satyam

November 2009

• WSJ on why work tech sucks
• Google Docs to surpass Office in a year

October 2009

• Ethics enhanced by clean smells

September 2009

• Continuous auditing
• Dueling perspec­tives on internal audit
• IIA: Keep internal and external audit separate

August 2009

• Foreign acqui­si­tions and the FCPA
• Rentokil-KPMG deal seen to threaten independence

July 2009

• Political risk for market dominance
• IFRS for small and medium-sized enterprises

June 2009

• Why your organi­zation should be using open document standards
• Will the netbook save the desktop?

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

• Thanks for the memories

April 2008

• Accounting firms are not marketing with blogs
• Simplified accounting rules for small business

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
• Are recruiters really using the internet?
• 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
• Now that’s a severance package!
• 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

February 2006

• Project Origami is Microsoft’s new amazing personal computing device
• H&R Block messed up their taxes
• Immigration is key
• How Playboy protects its intel­lectual property
• Chicago to build 600km² Wi-Fi network