I'm shaking my head. You might be shaking your fist too, after reading this , in response to the plan to limit executive pay to a cool half million dollars US as part the American economic bailout plans: “That is pretty draconian — $500,000 is not a lot of money, particularly if there is no bonus...

KPMG UK made headlines today by announcing it's offering - encouraging? - it's staff to either take a 4-day week or 4 to 12 weeks off at 30% pay - a semi-paid-leave-of-absence. Interestingly, even some top partners are offering to lead by example, including the head of the Bristol UK office ...

Check out this post, exposing yet another crazy scam, "241 Financing." Here's an excerpt from their ad - with David Fleming's comments below each underlined segment from the ad: * Fully open line of credit from $10,000 to $250,000 So they’re not only going to approve your mortgage,...

One of my friends just pointed out this article in the Globe, which explains how the buyout of Bell Canada by one of Canada's largest Teachers' Pension funds is on the verge of falling through completely. A teacher's pension plan buying one of Canada's largest corporations? Yes, our teachers...

Flying to Washington on three private jets to ask for billions of dollars ? Clever. I feel bad for the workers in the auto industry, but if I was working in that field, I would be planning an exit strategy around now, unless I was in a position to improve things. Especially because the heads of the companies...

Fortunately I don't find myself working with idiots - but I did find them discussed in the august columns of the Wall Street Journal. Oddly enough the managers weren't being blamed. And to be honest, today our subject is more about idiot journalists, but they certainly air the views of people...

A typical CA's job is all about writing. So in that way it's probably identical to more than 90% of all the professional jobs out there. Not everyone writes flowing prose, but they have to get ideas across in writing, in a professional and consistent fashion. So why do people who are trying to...

Just when you thought Air Canada couldn't get any cheaper, or callous: sweet merciful crap. That link takes you to a CNN story this site picked up, explaining that Air Canada's regional operator, Jazz, has decided to save 25 kilograms of weight from each flight by getting rid of the life vests...

If you're going to e-mail me a job offer - where'd you get my address from, anyway? - consider running a spellcheck on your announcement first. And hire a decent proofreader or editor to make your pitch look serious. If you can't even bother to do that, at least do something proper with your...

I'm not at all surprised that you'll find my site if you Google big four Canada overtime - I already pointed out that three of the big four are paying out overtime to their non-CA staff and seniors . n.b. provincial laws treat CA, CGA, CMA and CPA and students registered to study for those designations...