‘Tis the season for giving links

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.