Converting their payroll system has resulted in some serious errors to the tune of greater than $1.5 million for the Fort Worth (Texas) school district. The school district overpaid employees and former employees at least $1.54 million, according to the [internal] audit. It also found that the district’s payroll system lacked proper controls, was cumbersome […]

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Government control of education is accepted without a second thought by most citizens of our society today, but there are growing ranks of those who believe government should have a hand only in financing education, and not admin­is­tering it. This idea, that a government could fairly finance education based on a voucher system, is often […]

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Enron burst into flames around January 2002. I was just starting my second semester at Brock University in the esteemed Bachelor of Accounting program when the Houston-based company went down. What did this mean to a 19-year-old Canadian accounting student with no share holdings and no knowledge of the energy trading giant from Texas? Actually, a […]

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Posting may be infre­quent over the next few weeks as I focus on the School of Accoun­tancy, which started yesterday and doesn’t end until July 4. It’s being held at York University’s Keele Campus in North York (Toronto). It consists of classes every day, two practice exams this Friday and the following Friday, and the […]

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