It’s well known that Google encourages their employees to spend roughly equal to one day per week pursuing personal projects, or about 20% of their time at work. The results of this unique policy are numerous and successful: Gmail, Google Suggest, Google News, AdSense and Orkut. What would happen if an accounting firm allowed their […]
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Google’s 20% time at accounting firms?
October 6th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Category: Profession
Tags: development, employees, Google, HR, ideas, innovation
Global ethics and international accounting standards
September 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments
The Publish What You Pay campaign is where international politics, financial reporting, and the developing world intersect. The campaign seeks to force companies in extractive industries (such as oil and gas) to make public their payments to governments in the developing world. It began in 1999 with an “exposé of the apparent complicity of the oil […]
Category: Accounting Standards
Tags: bribery, corruption, development, ethics, IASB, IFRS, international, lobby, Oxfam, PWYP, standards
GTA">Building and rebuilding in the GTA
March 27th, 2006 · 2 Comments
The Toronto Star has two stories on their front page today about development in Toronto and the surrounding area worth noting. The West Don Lands development is a community being built over derelict industrial buildings east of downtown. And Vaughan’s proposed corporate centre and downtown is an idea that is seeing the light of day […]
Category: Toronto
Tags: development, Don Lands, Don River, downtown, suburban, Toronto, urban, Vaughan
