In the "olden days," the only way to become earn your Chartered Accountant designation was by 'paying your dues' and working through your 'slave years' at a CA firm. Didn't matter if it was a small shop or one of the Big 4 (or 5 or 6, or 8, depending on when you started...

It's the calm before the paperstorm, and the most wonderful time of the year for Chartered Accountants working in firms that enforce a Christmas Holiday Blackout period, where non-essential work is put on hold to let the staff and partners spend some time with family before disappearing into the...

If you're a Chartered Accountant in Ontario, you're probably already receiving the "eBrief" e-mails from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario with some rather surprising news. They've noted that starting this month it's possible to say "Firstname Lastname,...

Finally it's time. reward yourself. No more cases to debrief. No more anything of the sort. You can jump at shut off that part of your head. You just finished a punishing three day ordeal of an exam. You may be tempted to consider Next Steps. Tomasz has you covered in that case, check our the latest...

Considering that a google search for "UFE advice" still points to an article where I complained about shoddy treatment at the hands of PwC , it seems only fair to point to some current UFE advice by a more recent writer. Check out this post on quants by Tomasz Popiel, a young CA from Ottawa...

Something that helped me immensely when I was preparing for the CKE , and should be helpful to anyone taking a multiple choice test designed by halfwits, was to realize that the test was probably designed by someone who wasn't thinking things through very much. Reading too much into a question is...

Last time we discussed the joy of empty roads and the ability to find a seat on a subway train when commuting home from work . I of course glossed over the fact that you can also avoid the rush by leaving before 5 pm, but that crazy notion should seem absolutely foreign to anyone living in AuditLand...

I was going to compare the punishing hours one experiences in AuditLand to the more "normal" hours experienced by most other people and make some lofty defense about the good things that come about from sticking around an audit room while an entire client site empties out promptly at quitting...

The start of a fresh week is an occasion to consider your plans for the coming five days. Or if you're in AuditLand, likely six days given that busy season is ramping up and the joys of full two day weekends are fast becoming fleeting memories. It doesn't help if your client has a proclivity...

Congratulations to everyone who made it, passing the UFE which means succeeding in the penultimate step to becoming a Chartered Accountant. The results came out yesterday - and Ontario's successful writers are listed here . Despite my less frequent posting pace, I've always tried to time a post...