This week I have a small reprieve from my duties as auditor, as I’m taking part in a training course put on by the firm at the Hilton. The training is related to the internal Infor­mation Systems special­ization the firm offers, which will allow me to get more experience working with IS at clients and […]

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Sometimes I wonder to myself who audits this company or that one. I thought I was the only one, but appar­ently I’m not. I track search terms used to arrive at this site using 103bees.com. It’s a good complement to Google Analytics. One of the latest questions someone asked, and came to my site seeking the […]

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I had my annual perfor­mance review Friday afternoon. I knew what to expect, because it’s basically the aggre­gation of each job review we get throughout the year. Job reviews are a solid lead indicator for the annual appraisal. Reviewer comments are cited and my perfor­mance is compared to expec­ta­tions. It also afforded me the opportunity […]

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A recent CICA members survey has revealed what matters most to the Canadian Chartered Accoun­tants who answer member surveys, and the August issue of CA Magazine highlights those findings: Chartered accoun­tants want work that is inter­esting and challenging, but only if it leaves them enough time to have a life. Those are the results of a […]

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Jeremy Newman of BDO Stoy Hayward, highlights a key finding of the British Oxera Report on Audit Choice and Compe­tition: According to the report by Oxera on Compe­tition and Choice published in April 2006 more than 70% of FTSE 100 companies had not held a compet­itive tender for the last 15 years. The incidence of […]

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