At the end of September the IIA and ISACA announced they had reached an agreement to “create a basis for cooper­ation and collab­o­ration” between the organi­za­tions. The agreement is formalized in a Memo of Under­standing that has been signed by both parties. The MoU lists a few areas where this agreement makes cooper­ation possible: Speaking […]

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Law firms continue to outpace accounting firms when it comes to harnessing the power of blogs to market their services to current and potential clients. A recent post by Michelle Golden asks the question “Isn’t Your Firm Blogging Yet?” and the answer appar­ently is no. The post quotes this one from LexBlog founder Kevin O’Keefe, which […]

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Rick Telberg is conducting a survey of CPAs about their thoughts on the future of the profession and what they see as some challenges and issues facing profes­sionals. He shares a few early responses in a recent post: “An increasing number of young people do not want to seriously work toward the accounting profes­sional status […]

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A comment by Dennis Howlett in one of his recent posts forms my inspi­ration: I can only ever be the judge of what I think might work in a situation where I have incom­plete infor­mation. I could be completely wrong. But that’s where the blog metaphor makes such a positive difference. It is impos­sible to […]

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This is probably the type of thing I should be blogging about. The phrase “right in my wheel­house” comes to mind. The inter­section of several of my favourite things: accounting, technology, and social networks. Microsoft has announced a new “community” around Dynamics Live specif­i­cally for accounting and finance profes­sionals. The site isn’t named yet but […]

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