Jeremy Newman of BDO Stoy Hayward, highlights a key finding of the British Oxera Report on Audit Choice and Compe­tition: According to the report by Oxera on Compe­tition and Choice published in April 2006 more than 70% of FTSE 100 companies had not held a compet­itive tender for the last 15 years. The incidence of […]

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I recently passed the 2-year mark working in public accounting since gradu­ating without doing any co-op terms. I started work at the beginning of May 2005, so through the end of June I will have 26 months experience, less the approx­i­mately 2 months I took off last summer to attend the SOA and study and […]

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re: The Auditors is a relatively new blog that covers the auditing profession and is written by Francine McKenna, who has some impressive work history which she details on her LinkedIn profile. I’ve added her to my Links. Some posts I’ve found partic­u­larly inter­esting: The Top Ten Reasons Audit Fees Will Not Go Down Heard at […]

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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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From Lickspittle Shite-a-bed comes this very funny “history” of auditors, including this gem: Stock­taking is a strange version of foreplay perculiar to auditors. The audit pack will arrive at an indus­trial premises at 6am in the morning and demand to know how many widgets they have. The auditors will then spend many happy hours counting the […]

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