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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It was announced on Friday that the number five and six accounting firms in Canada, Grant Thornton LLP and BDO Dunwoody LLP, have entered into discus­sions on the possi­bility of merging. The firms are both members of their inter­na­tional networks, Grant Thornton Inter­na­tional and BDO Inter­na­tional. If merged, the combined firm would take the name […]

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This is cool: BDO Stoy Hayward’s Managing Partner Jeremy Newman has a blog. It’s no surprise he was voted Accoun­tancy Age’s Person­ality of the Year — this guy is switched on. I think it goes without saying — and it’s a constant theme for my fellow accountant bloggers — that we need more folks at […]

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