So says this recent story on Accoun­tancy Age, quoting a Cantos interview with the ACCA’s head of devel­opment, Tony Osude: “If you went to one of the mid-tier firms, one of the beauties about being there is you might not be paid as much neces­sarily, but you have much more hands on experience. You can expect […]

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Kind of old news (it’s from January last year) but BDO Seidman has imple­mented commercial open source software to manage their nationwide network of member firms. Open source software is software whose under­lying source code is openly available and is usually licensed under the GNU GPL. What I like about open source is that the […]

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Hot on the heels of their announcement that the merger discus­sions with Grant Thornton were called off, BDO Dunwoody’s insol­vency practice BDO Dunwoody Ltd. has joined forces in Nova Scotia with Goodman Rosen Inc. Expanding one of Canada’s most compre­hensive financial recovery practices, BDO Dunwoody Limited, Trustee in Bankruptcy and Goodman Rosen Inc., Trustee in Bankruptcy […]

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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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Although they’re possibly (likely?) completely unrelated, the recent announcement in the UK that Grant Thornton would merge with RSM Robson Rhodes comes hot on the heels of the announcement in Canada that BDO Dunwoody and Grant Thornton here would enter into discus­sions on the possi­bility of merging. The partners of Grant Thornton UK LLP and […]

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