Soumitra Dutta of French business school Insead thinks so, as reported in this story on CFO.com: Insead has developed a “novel technique” to value software assets. Using conjoint analysis — “a time-tested and widely used robust technique in marketing science,” Dutta claims — companies can place a value on software by identi­fying its individual attributes, […]

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Work-life balance is a topic that comes up frequently in the accounting profession. Robert Half, a recruiting company, surveys accoun­tants occasionally. 38% of accoun­tants take the office with them on holiday in the form of either a laptop or handheld computer. The research also found that 34% of accoun­tants globally admit to working in the […]

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Government control of education is accepted without a second thought by most citizens of our society today, but there are growing ranks of those who believe government should have a hand only in financing education, and not admin­is­tering it. This idea, that a government could fairly finance education based on a voucher system, is often […]

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It was only a few weeks ago I was blogging about the the potential merger in Canada of BDO Dunwoody and Grant Thornton. They announced that they were in talks and conducting the necessary due diligence proce­dures to see if a merger would be good for the two firms and their clients. They announced today […]

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I received an email recently from a US CPA who is moving to Canada and hopes to write the UFE this year. She asked me if I knew where she could find relevant study materials for it. Densmore immedi­ately came to mind, since I’d taken the course last summer and it served me exceed­ingly well. On […]

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