Despite a day of rain, it's still a white Christmas outside. For CAs and CA students, it's a great time to remember to give something back to our community, while you're enjoying what, for most of Ontario, is a picture perfect landscape, as well as the warmth, love and other gifts from spending...

All three of my mentees passed - I'm so incredibly proud of them. Each of them had their own challenges - as we all do - and all of them were successful. The only thing as good as passing the exam is seeing your friends pass. They're out still partying, catching up on missed sleep, or still jumping...

Congratulations to the successful writers! The above link takes you to the Ontario UFE / EFU results. EFU is the French acronym for the Uniform Final Evaluation. If you're in Quebec you've been partying since last night - they get their results the night before, for some reason. And Atlantic...

DJ'ing, photography, moral support: just some of the other roles you find yourself playing as a CA , I've found to my delight this fall. Tonight all the nervous writers of the 2008 UFE will sooth their nerves in anticipation of the final leg of the nervous wait until the 2008 UFE results are...

One of the rites of passage for CA students is filling out their professional experience declaration. Every province in Canada has its own twist, but in Ontario you fill out the CA Student Experience Certification Report . One of the trickiest questions you'll be challenged with - aside from pulling...

I just wrote a post inspired by an earlier article by Steve McIntyre-Smith, but that wasn't the only commentary on his writings I decided to prepare. I was also intrigued by his note regarding the fact that only 953 people, out of 2357 nationally, successfully passed the UFE in Ontario last year...

I'm not at all surprised that you'll find my site if you Google big four Canada overtime - I already pointed out that three of the big four are paying out overtime to their non-CA staff and seniors . n.b. provincial laws treat CA, CGA, CMA and CPA and students registered to study for those designations...

If you're not familiar with CA firms, you may be a little surprised to know that there's such a thing as "recruiting season." Employers will come around university and college campuses during set times of the year - both in Canada and the US - to interview potential employees en masse...

A week after they sent me the e-mail making it official, my certificate finally showed up at the office, proudly proclaiming to the world that I'm a CA. Whee! The other 1157 pieces of 'mail' where spams that hit me - roughly as much as last month . Although the ICAO should probably be ashamed...

This is what I think of when you say consulting . The link pops up straight to a chart outlining a ten point scale showing how close someone is to quitting. Despite what you're about to read below, this is one scenario where you can actually replace many of the instances of the word "consultant"...