2 > 2 X 1 (Accounting Can Be Lonely)
Accounting can be lonely. So much of what we do is by ourselves. I was at a the finance committee meeting of a charity last week. We were discussing how much money the charity needs to have on hand as …
Category: Accounting
What Should They Teach Professional Accountants?
Where I live, in order to become a Chartered Accountant (the Canadian equivalent of a CPA), you need the following: Courses Hours Financial accounting 15(introductory, intermediate and advanced) Cost & management accounting 6 Advanced accounting elective 3 Auditing 9 Taxation …
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The Boomers are Coming – Part 1
Modern day Paul Reveres are shouting, “The Boomers are coming!” from every digital rooftop. Magazines proclaim the changes to healthcare, investments, retirement homes etc. etc. that will accompany the retirement of the Baby boom generation. While there is a lot …
Where is the Blog Going?
You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting as much lately. It’s easy to dismiss not writing by talking about how busy I am. I don’t travel as much any more, so I don’t have that airport waiting room …
R U My Mentor?
Wouldn’t it be nice to find someone who has seen it all before and is willing to share their experience with you and show you the ropes? Or maybe it would be nice to find someone young and eager to …
Lifelong Learning
When you see a new version of your accounting software, does it feel like Christmas or April Fool’s Day? Is your mood one of happy expectation or is your cynical side just waiting for disappointment? Here’s what I saw in …
Interesting People
It takes a lot of talent to be a consistently funny writer for your whole career, but John Cleese has done just that. I was a Monty Python fan and watched the TV show every week. I quoted Python skits …
Getting to Phase 2
How much of Excel do you use? If you spent a little more time designing your key spreadsheets so that all of the calculations were consistent and the data flowed in a logical way, could you produce more effective reports? …
What Makes You Proud of Your Company?
This blog is all about energizing accounting staff by providing them with the best use of their accounting system. You will be a more productive, more effective team member if your tools save you time rather than getting in the …
Practical Tips for Requests For Proposals (RFP’s)
Elizabeth Engel at Beaconfire Consulting has some practical advice for companies issuing Requests For Proposals (RFP’s). In an earlier post, I argued for reducing the boilerplate that typically goes into RFP’s and their responses, but Elizabeth goes a lot further …
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