There's a small decrease in the professional fees you or your firm is paying for the privilege of calling yourself a Chartered Accountant: the full member fee for 2013-2014 came out to be $22.60 lower than the $1107.40 that was charged last year. Savings of 2%. The total fee is still a hefty $1084...

It's good to be proud of your work. If you've done a good job, you can take pleasure in the fact that it's error free. And yet, people may say things like, "are you sure you didn't double-count those items?" You may be 100% correct in saying, "of course I didn't,"...

Make sure your staff know how to demonstrate all the features customers may expect. I've installed Windows 8 out of an insane sense of adventure, and it's running better than you'd expect . "Dip & Squeeze? Pick one, jerks!" What sold me on it was the fantastic $15 upgrade price...

In a fascinating way to mess with you, the designers of the proxy voting site for the 2012 Council Election added the "back" button on the final page. Just in case you left the voting booth and had a change of heart. Wow, that's just weird. At least you can request an e-mail confirmation...

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...

Let's all take a moment to gather around the warm glow of our monitors and study Wikipedia's insights into the concept of a microsite . Now let's study the ICAO Unification Microsite. You don't have to click away, I'll give you a screenshot: What exactly is wrong here? There are both...

I received an e-mail inviting me to give free marketing to someone who put a lot of effort into a cute cartoon explaining the job prospects for accounting students. I'm responding publically because I can: I won't do link to your graphic, because you ignored who I am and what I do. Your cartoon...

Good news! Especially if you were on the fence about getting a Playbook when it went on sale last month, hemmed and hawed, and then realized it was too late to order one, only to find out you could still get one from Shopblackberry.com, just to endure a cycle of cancellation, re-ordering, more cancellation...

The newest gem to land in Toronto's lap is a report on where services can be cut back to save money - you can read the report yourself here - the city has kindly posted the PDF for all to see . According to NOW Magazine, the report cost $300,000 , which suggests a 1000 hour job if the consultants...

Bridal registries make no sense. I'm going to ignore most of the economics argument, though if you're never thought about it, consider this: at a typical department store, markups can easily be 100 to 300% over the cost of the given item. Forcing everyone to pay a giant markup for something you...