This week the 2009 UFE results come out and I'll try and follow along - as long as you are in touch with CA students, there'll be people you care about who are waiting for CA exam results at the end of November, or beginning of December. I'll no doubt be slow in conveying my congratulations...

PriceWaterhouseCoopers Advisory has made some significant cuts to their US workforce, as mentioned off-hand by Francine and discussed in detail here Skip down to comment 4 in the post for an interesting dissection of firm revenue math and the possible impact it'll have on partner income. It's...

The month before, the count was 416; in September the total count was only 376, that's an improvement. Accounting firms continue with dismissals as they welcome new hires and prepare for another busy season. After condemning the day-of-UFE terminations , a week later I heard that more terminations...

The number of spam e-mails hitting me continued their downward trend landing at 416, sliding even lower than last month's 437. Better spam filters at last? Wonderful. I had several topics come to mind regarding how companies measure various metrics for success and failure, and of course they all...

I'm finally back from vacation while city staff continue to clean up after their labour action . Posting was sporadic lately due to real life intruding, and the next week is going to be quite busy. In AuditLand the current crop of interns are going to be winding down their summer terms and the brave...

Happy Canada Day - 142 years young! I didn't have much time to reflect on that or do much more than watch fireworks, since today was a relaxing catch-up day, after a hectic June, where I got hit by 612 spams - a fall from May's 768 . Busy season is a relative concept, based on how much of a crushing...

768 is a sharp jump from last month .

Hopefully you've already filed your taxes and didn't just toss in a football-sized package of disorganized receipts in the mail . Similar to tax cheaters , spammers continue their annoying work of clogging the internet - but their numbers fell to only 459 last month, a huge drop from the 684...

684 pieces of spam hit me in March. One of the funky blurry pictures from Metric's Thursday April 2 secret show. The good stuff is loading up and will get shared soon. That's an increase of 42 from last month . Wonder if April's massive worm attacks will exacerbate matters? Maybe not . But...

The spam tracking continues. 642 pieces of junk mail hit me last month, a very similar count to the 639 in January . If I had more time I'd tie this into some sort of global spam tracking tool. But I'm sure someone else has already written up all this - I'm not really putting a huge amount...