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 is those [...]

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It’s that time of the year again and I’m feeling nostalgic. It was just over a year ago last year when I learned that I had passed the final hurdle to obtaining my much sought-after CA designation (notwithstanding that pesky experience requirement which continues to elude me), the UFE.
This year’s results are out this [...]

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I’m going to have a fast-paced week again. This week I’m working on two clients from jobs that have wrapped up field work and two clients whose field work has yet to begin.
On the two post field work jobs, I’ll be auditing the consolidation of several large private companies and clearing review notes and [...]

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Bill Kennedy’s getting it done at Energized Accounting, a relatively new blog hosted by Google’s Blogger that so far has been host to some inspirational posts for me. The latest is all about a favourite topic of mine, data visualization:
If you want effective communications, you have to take responsibility for both the sending and [...]

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Canada’s CAs have announced guidance for a key metric of income trusts, that of distributable cash.
The term ‘distributable cash’ generally refers to the cash that an income trust could potentially distribute to unit holders. Investors use this information when assessing the entity’s ability to fund future distributions and to help value their investments.
But the problem [...]

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