Dan Meyers of Tick Marks is caught up in the spirit of giving in his own way — he’s revis­iting his special 12 Blogs of Christmas from last year around this time and giving us all a refresher on the more memorable posts from the accounting blogos­phere from the year nearly ended.

Since my blog wasn’t around this time last year I wasn’t featured, so I’m going to help Dan out and highlight what I think are the best posts I’ve made in the 10 months or so I’ve been blogging about the accounting and audit profes­sional industry:

• Income trust tax loophole gaining popularity
  One of my most popular posts in terms of number of comments, I discussed the tax law and theory surrounding income trusts in Canada, which quickly became one of the most contro­versial aspects of the still relatively new Conser­v­ative government here.
• Terrorist accounting
  I’m still pretty proud of this little nugget, even though as I was writing it I was a little worried it might offend more than it enter­tained. It’s a flight of fancy as I try to get inside the head of a terrorist organization’s bean counter. It was timely and creative, if nothing else!
• UFE results dreams begin
  Surpris­ingly my most visited post, possibly due to its primo position in Google’s search results, it was short but sweet and captured the growing anxiety I was feeling as UFE results day approached. I think most people who click on the link in Google are hoping for a wilder dream than the one I described!
• Global ethics and inter­na­tional accounting standards
  Probably my most ardent foray into accounting related activism, the post details the struggle the Publish What You Pay campaign has had in lobbying for an inter­na­tional standard mandating companies in certain indus­tries report payments they make to govern­ments, in an effort to put an end to the injustice of corruption in the third world.
• The CA Advantage — marketing the profession
  The profession debuted a new ad campaign highlighting the skills a CA can bring to an organi­zation, and I compared it to the successful marketing of a rival desig­nation here in Canada, the Certified Management Accountants.