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 Friday, […]

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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 documenting […]

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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 […]

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A recent CICA members survey has revealed what matters most to the Canadian Chartered Accoun­tants who answer member surveys, and the August issue of CA Magazine highlights those findings: Chartered accoun­tants want work that is inter­esting and challenging, but only if it leaves them enough time to have a life. Those are the results of a […]

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