At the end of May the CICA announced an updated logo to be used in all profes­sional branding both on the national and provincial level. The new logo uses a simpler font (Gotham) than the last, but also intro­duces the colour element whereas the prior logo was not dependent on this: I’m not so sure the […]

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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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The Wall Street Journal has published an article recently titled “You’re a Nobody Unless Your Name Googles Well” that’s been making the rounds on various popular blogs. Reminds me of what I found when I Googled myself a short while ago. I took a screen shot of it and put it on my Flickr. In […]

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Which nascent social network does it better for work-related connec­tions? Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. LinkedIn is an online network of experi­enced profes­sionals from around the world, repre­senting 130 indus­tries. By their own defin­i­tions, these two utilities target slightly different types […]

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A while back, about a day or two after passing the UFE, I was approached to write a short editorial for The Bottom Line, a finance and accounting monthly, about how and why accoun­tants and accounting firms should blog. I sat down soon there­after and punched out a short, author­i­tative screed extolling the virtues of […]

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