The results came in wicked-fast: earlier this afternoon the viral video-supported campaign by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario bore fruit. They scored the highest ever turnout, a record of 27.6% of the membership, with 85.4% voting in favour. Here's the press release explaining what...

One of the perks coming from working for a large multi-national company is that international opportunities do come up, and relocation services often accompany permanent transfers. I always toyed with the idea, but instead found myself happy to experience short-term adventures instead . There's mounds...

The CA students who will soon be newly minted Canadian Chartered Accountants are giddy or recovering from their celebratory parties today. The UFEblog, which I have spoken of highly , has served its namesake well by offering detailed coverage. Links to all the jurisdictions' results websites are...

Big long concert reviews deserve the full tabloid treatment, so I wrote up a rare guest post for my irreverent friends over at Going Concern . Check out the article on last week's second annual Big Four Battle of the Bands . If you didn't see it already, one of the videos, the Beat It cover,...

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...

The Big 4 accounting firms often march in lockstep. If Deloitte or Ernst & Young offer more than KPMG or less than PwC, you can expect people to start jumping ship, or otherwise being grumpy. So it's quite handy that Going Concern has released the Pricewaterhousecoopers 2012 salary increases...

Feel free to visit the fan page for this site if you're sitting there despairing over the confirms that didn't come in, or better yet, don't match the balances your client claimed existed. I'm sure you'll figure it out after you hit up this page. Major benefits include an ever more...

While Ontario's successful writers of the 2011 UFE prepare to party at the Westin Harbor Castle, the Globe offers its takes on the ongoing merger saga . Alberta's CAs recently decided to back out of the merger talks, while Ontario drives on towards June's non-binding vote. Much whinging has...

I just mentioned CH Canada last week . 2 days after my post, they went bankrupt . Ouch. Here's a list of the dead sites, courtesy of the bankruptcy trustee : As a consequence of the bankruptcy, DB Media will not be fulfilling any customer orders through its DVD clubs as of December 9, 2010 as the...

Congratulations to the successful writers of the 2011 Uniform Final Evaluation! A special shout-out to fellow CA blogger Jaycee - she made it as well! She was posting a very readable account of her experiences leading up to the exam - it's well worth a read on her site . Ontario results are available...