Neil McIntyre, CPA, CA

SlideMagic is a blog I read regularly about good design for presentations. Good presentations often include flowcharts to explain systems, which I found to be applicable to the types of flowchart...

https://neilmcintyre.ca/good-tips-for-flowcharting/

William Belk of Rocket Fueled People is reporting something that many of us have known for a while now: Open plan office space is the worst if you need quiet to concentrate and, y’know, actuall...

https://neilmcintyre.ca/open-plan-office-space-may-inhibit-concentration-and-productivity/

I follow a few presentation/design related blogs and a quote near the end of one post recently caught my eye, as I think the following is instructive for those of us in the audit business, tasked...

https://neilmcintyre.ca/good-design-facilitates-effective-communication/

I love the idea of Slack. If you haven’t heard of it before, it’s collaboration software for teams that replaces a lot of what we’re currently using email to do. It’s main features as far...

https://neilmcintyre.ca/using-slack-ia-dept/

Auditors of all kinds would be wise to read up on the psychology of white-collar criminals, to better understand the rationalization vector of the fraud triangle: David Myers, the former controll...

https://neilmcintyre.ca/the-mindset-of-white-collar-criminal/

You’ve probably heard of bitcoin, the most recognized online cryptocurrency, but like me, you may not know very much about it. The concept of a peer-to-peer (P2P) currency which requires no int...

https://neilmcintyre.ca/bitcoin-and-the-blockchain/

An inspiring quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on ethics: The main thing is never to act against your conscience, not to put your signature on documents you do not believe in, not to vote for tho...

https://neilmcintyre.ca/solzhenitsyn-on-ethics/

Back on October 11, 2015, this website was “hacked” by some random group of miscreants. The hack placed new index.html and index.php pages in every folder, I learned upon further inspection o...

https://neilmcintyre.ca/the-recent-unpleasantness/

So as not to come off as too unreasonable or difficult on Twitter, a longer explanation of recent tweets is likely helpful. I tweeted this to Rogers, one of Canada’s big telecom companies: http...

https://neilmcintyre.ca/invoice-dates-in-the-age-of-electronic-billing/

For the next couple months I’ll be in Kansas City getting some experience in one of the regional offices of a division of my company, helping with some year end tasks. It’s going to be pretty...

https://neilmcintyre.ca/secondment-to-the-finance-department/