Archive for the Business in Canada Category
Honoring Accountants & Accounting Troubleshooters
March is Accountant’s Month, and the Accounting Troubleshooters Group of Associates have prepared this video clip showcasing accountants portrayed in movies. They laugh, they cry, they fall in love, they can be goofey, funny, moble and heroic. Just like in real life.
James Bond 007 Christmas Party
I had a chance this year to attend a Corporate Christmas Party that is quite unlike anything I have experienced before. Called the James Bond 007 inclusion, this is a party professionally hosted by a corporate event planner. Guests dressed in their favorite James Bond characters. At the party, guests were given secret mission assignments [...]
Romancing China
“What took you so long?”
For the first time, since Stephen Harper became Prime Minister of Canada, he visited China with his wife, Laureen Harper on a 5-day scheduled official visit.
Premier Wen Jiao Bao gently chided the Prime Minister for taking so long to come and visit China. It has been five years since any [...]
Is there a Message on Your Head?
“A head that turns head” is the tagline for a company called Bald Media in Toronto. Imagine a bald head as a blank canvas or a blank billboard, where you are free to post your company logo or advertising message. Then send this bald head to roam around high traffic areas like the mall, downtown [...]
Sprouting your Business
A Canadian company has launched a social networking site called “Sprouter“ designed for entrepreneurs to connect, share ideas, experiences and exchange information in an online community. The concept is similar to Facebook, except the Sprouter will be a social site dedicated only to entrepreneurs, thereby reducing the noise from the rest of the social networking [...]
AFCA-BC - the little engine that could!
An organization in its infancy, AFCA-BC (Association of Filipino Canadian Accountants BC Chapter) put on a very impressive show on Oct 17, 2009 for its Second Annual Professional Development Workshop with a turn out of over 50 accountants and student accountants, seven of them from FAACPA (Filipino American Association of Certified Public Accountants - Seattle [...]
