This past week has been an inter­esting one. I’m at a client for the third year now. This is the first time that’s happened, which makes sense since I just began the third year of work after gradu­ating. Some reflec­tions on the milestone: The first year I was green. I had about a week of […]

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re: The Auditors is a relatively new blog that covers the auditing profession and is written by Francine McKenna, who has some impressive work history which she details on her LinkedIn profile. I’ve added her to my Links. Some posts I’ve found partic­u­larly inter­esting: The Top Ten Reasons Audit Fees Will Not Go Down Heard at […]

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I have often wondered whether the tradi­tional method of providing audited financial state­ments to clients is really serving them as well as we could be. We print them up on nice thick paper with the firm’s letterhead and spiral bound the package with a tasteful, under­stated title page, followed by our solemn audit report. Is […]

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From Lickspittle Shite-a-bed comes this very funny “history” of auditors, including this gem: Stock­taking is a strange version of foreplay perculiar to auditors. The audit pack will arrive at an indus­trial premises at 6am in the morning and demand to know how many widgets they have. The auditors will then spend many happy hours counting the […]

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I’m a huge fan of visual­izing things. Things like data. Data is fun, sure, but not as fun as a data visual­ization. Pictures are worth a thousand words, and pretty pictures have gotta be worth at least 1,001. What’s helping me visualize data these days? Mind maps. That’s because there are two really cool web apps that […]

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