It has been five years since my first post on Feb. 18, 2006. In a way it’s the 5-year anniversary for this blog, but I haven’t really been writing as frequently lately as I should be in order to claim that legit­i­mately. This is my first post in 2011! So to celebrate, I’m raiding the archives […]

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Dear readers, It is with great reluc­tance that I announce the closing of this blog. As of this Friday, May 9, 2008, I will leave public accounting to pursue new oppor­tu­nities in the wide world of industry in internal audit. I have met a lot of great people within the profession through this blog and it […]

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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 the answer appar­ently is no. The post quotes this one from LexBlog founder Kevin O’Keefe, which […]

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A recent article on WebCPA confused and inspired me: Accounting firms need to become more intel­ligent businesses by better lever­aging the time and knowledge of their profes­sional staff, according to a survey… […] Firms with a formal knowledge management program benefited from its imple­men­tation. Hmm… Intel­li­gence, good. Lever­aging knowledge, check. Formal knowledge management program, bingo! […]

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This weekend was the first long weekend of the summer here in Canada. On Fridays before long weekends at my firm we get the after­noons off, so around 1pm everyone clears out and gets an early start on the rest of the cubicle dwellers around the Greater Toronto Area. I took the oppor­tunity to do […]

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