The party bus at Bay and King: wheeled debacle or the most brilliant application of motor coaches ever? As much as I'd like to think I'm just making jokes concerning the amount of travel auditors often experience, Mark Lee has brought our attention to a perhaps long overdue concept: AllABoardroom...

This month's CA magazine features a mention of Stefano Picone, CA , founder of mycasite , but before you can read that you may read the following unrelated trainwreck of a paragraph - read it and guess what went wrong here : " Firms only interested in training CA students who wish to practise...

This image pretty much summarizes the last two or three weeks. It's been a wild a joyful blur. Between supervising ICAO low-income tax clinics, hitting multiple deadlines with aplomb and celebrating Canada's Gold, there's barely enough time to go skiing. Last chance for me is likely today...

Congratulations to Alexandre Bilodeau for bringing a glorious golden victory to Canada's western shores! In tribute to his spectacular mogul run, I offer some Big 4 snow sport action. The snow profile above, sadly, is a little too similar to that in Vancouver this month. Who would've expected...

I really do wish the following tutorial was not necessary, but recent events have showed me that our education system has clearly failed us. Now that there is an influx of people with absolutely zero life skills arriving in my neighbourhood, I have, as usual, found it thrust upon my shoulders to deliver...

There's actually a rule on how to treat "stolen property" on your US tax return: " Stolen property. If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless in the same year, you return it to its rightful owner." Someone reported...

One of the many fun things about travelling around the world is finding out the rather different way people do common tasks. Surprises abound, even with something as prosaic as saying "Back in 5 Minutes." At least, that's what I assume this meant in a Chinese mall. Similarly, the sales...

Completely random promotion: check out My Life is Polish - the site is hilarious, particularly if you are of Polish descent. If you're not, I recommend keeping a bookmark to Google Translate's Polish to English engine to get some of the jokes painfully true stories. Example: Today, my mom poured...

If you're working with well-connected people you may have seen this already. I've received multiple copies: it's been uploaded to one site specializing on the topic and it was also shared by Life of an Auditor . the latter being the first to publish it, on August 31, 2009. Forwarded copies...

An example of "what's it like to be a senior staff" writing seems in order, after all the drama of the nasty early fall combined recruiting, layoff and UFE exam analysis season. The thought of explaining what it's like to run jobs with eager young staff ready to assist you came about...