Tag Archives for Accounting

Accounting firms are not marketing with blogs

Law firms continue to outpace accounting firms when it comes to harnessing the power of blogs to market their services to current and potential clients. A recent post by Michelle Golden asks the question “Isn’t Your Firm Blogging Yet?” and … Continue reading

03. April 2008 by Neil
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Scots tout principles in the Big Apple

The Scotsman: The Institute of Chartered Accoun­tants of Scotland will tell high-powered US financiers at a conference in New York that individual judgment should play a bigger role than strict adherence to a rule book. Ah, this old classic. Once again … Continue reading

04. April 2007 by Neil
Categories: Accounting Standards | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 4 comments

BlackBerry maker getting the probe on options backdating

The Ontario Securities Commission has launched a probe of Research In Motion’s stock option practices. An OSC spokesperson said the review was launched in early October, which is not long after the company announced it would have to restate past … Continue reading

09. November 2006 by Neil
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Mining Wikipedia for accounting topics

Wikipedia is a good source of infor­mation about a variety of topics. I’m pleased to find that it’s generally pretty good about accounting too. The article on the Balance Sheet contains “case studies” showing the effect of some trans­ac­tions on … Continue reading

09. October 2006 by Neil
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Pension brouhaha south of the border

FASB is coming out with some tough new standards relating to defined benefit pensions that is expected to result in signif­icant new liabil­ities (or increases to existing ones) for companies that had been accounting for their pensions under the more … Continue reading

05. October 2006 by Neil
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