There have been scant refer­ences in the best animated comedies of our time — The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park — to accoun­tants. One that stands out was in the episode of The Simpsons when the April 15^th tax deadline rolled around. Ned Flanders did his taxes on January 1^st and mailed them out the […]

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In Sydney, Australia, an accountant was convicted of hiring a hitman to kill a client who he had stolen almost $84,000 from. He had failed to remit those amounts to the government for taxes owed by the victim. The motive was, unsur­pris­ingly, to “stop Mr Williams from bringing the fraud to light.” This is pretty crazy […]

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A recent Harris Poll has concluded that 47% of Americans see accounting as having “consid­erable to great” prestige, and another 40% of the population attributing “some prestige” to the profession. Although it isn’t clear whether you have to have a profes­sional desig­nation to be considered presti­gious. Firefighters, doctors and nurses are in the lead with […]

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A week ago I was trading blog posts with David Rachford about accoun­tants marketing their profes­sional services using MySpace. The discussion had resulted in both of us signing up with the mega-popular site in an effort to under­stand the potential oppor­tu­nities. Results are still out on that avenue, but out of the Web 2.0 ether, […]

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MK Braaten is calling it quits and giving up making regular (or any, for the foreseeable future) posts on his conser­v­ative Canadian political blog. I’ll always be grateful for his link to me (now broken), a fellow Canadian accountant. I always liked reading your blog, good luck in the future!

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