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Dueling perspectives on internal audit

September 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment

A guest post by an intern in Internal Audit was recently featured on another accountant’s blog, I Want To Be A CA, and I was first alerted to it by Krupo’s post title bait. The post is not compli­mentary about internal audit, but the support for its thesis is so flimsy and based on purely […]

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Mid-tier firms offer better experience

July 19th, 2007 · 6 Comments

So says this recent story on Accoun­tancy Age, quoting a Cantos interview with the ACCA’s head of devel­opment, Tony Osude: “If you went to one of the mid-tier firms, one of the beauties about being there is you might not be paid as much neces­sarily, but you have much more hands on experience. You can expect […]

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Go west! Or east, or north, or south!

August 18th, 2006 · No Comments

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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