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 […]

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One of the great things about this accounting profession I’m in is the multitude of oppor­tu­nities available to travel and work abroad, given that many large firms here in Canada are inter­na­tional. I was just reading an article in BusinessWeek about KPMG, where the head of campus recruiting was under the impression that their international […]

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Not through any direct experience of my own, although my landlord did take the oppor­tunity to raise my rent the maximum allowable by law a month ago, but the city has been moving up the ranks of the most expensive on the planet. Toronto of course ranks first in Canada as the most expensive place […]

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