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NeilMcIntyre.ca
http://neilmcintyre.ca/
Accountant blogger in Toronto discussing Canadian tax, and Canadian and international accounting and auditing profession.
- Author: Neil McIntyre
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- Tags: accountant canadian auditing accounting audit taxation
Recent Posts
WSJ on why work tech sucks
You’ll have to hurry before Rupert puts it behind a paywall and blocks Google from indexing it, but the WSJ had a good article recently about technology in the workplace. At the office, you’ve got a sluggish computer running aging softwar...
Google Docs to surpass Office in a year
Now this is interesting. Comments from Google’s president of the enterprise division indicate he believes that Google Docs will “reach a ‘point of capability’ next year that it will serve the ‘vast majority’s needs...
Ethics enhanced by clean smells
I wonder if this is something businesses (including accounting firms) might want to look into: A study at Brigham Young University has found that people are “unconsciously fairer and more generous” in clean-smelling environments. The rese...
Continuous auditing
I wanted to draw your attention to an article that recently appeared on CFO.com about continuous auditing, mainly because the topic is one which is as misunderstood as it is trendy. Continuous auditing is generally held to be an automated approach. I...
Dueling perspectives on internal audit
A guest post by an intern in Internal Audit was recently featured on another accountant’s blog, I Want To Be A CA, and I was first alerted to it by Krupo’s post title bait. The post is not complimentary about internal audit, but the support for i...
IIA: Keep internal and external audit separate
AccountancyAge is reporting that the UK and Ireland IIA’s chief executive Ian Peters recently made a statement on the contentious issue of having external auditors provide internal audit services: Internal auditors answer to management and the ...
