This presentation is designed to assist tax professionals with the many complications involving the filing of forms with the Canada Revenue Agency. Join Gavin Laird, of Laird & Company, who will navigate the myriad of form types and provide insightful instruction for those cases where your situation does not quite fit within the norm. He will also provide valuable guidance for resolving cases where form filing has gone awry.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1709, February 25, 2015

Join the tax lawyers of Dentons Canada LLP for an instructive overview and update of the tax rules in respect of foreign affiliates. Cross border holdings and debt require special consideration in tax filing, and Canada’s foreign affiliate tax regime has undergone some significant changes in the past couple of years. This webinar will examine the basics of Canada’s foreign affiliate taxation regime - as it applies to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) – who already carry an international presence, or are considering expansion abroad.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1707, January 21, 2015

Objectives

The Administrator course content focuses on features in the Administration, Accounts Receivable, Reports and Report Writer modules. By learning how to work properly within these modules, you can better manage the program on a day-to-day basis. This course includes hands-on computer training.

Topics

·         Create new clients and prospects

·         Create custom fields

·         Maintain up to date client contact information

·         Lock releasing of time

·         Edit and update released time

·         Use Batch Time Entry

·         Correct WIP and update invoices

·         Select a Lock Reconciliation Date and WIP Approval date

·         Determine Security Settings for employees

·         Set up Alerts for assigned employees

·         Complete Year End Procedures

·         Use the Administrative Utilities

·         Enter A/R transactions

·         Apply Later Distributions (prepayments) to invoices

·         Update, Correct and Search A/R

·         Print A/R Statements and Dunning Letters

·         Calculate and update finance charges

·         Generate firm reports

·         Create and process report Queues

Attendees

Staff responsible for managing day-to-day operations in Practice Management, including clients, contacts, security, time, billing, A/R and generating reports.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1245, January 14, 2015

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

ipwebinar.aspx?tab=1&smid=1392, January 13, 2015

Join our CCH trainer for this interactive session on improving your Search Techniques using CCH Online platform - a great learning opportunity!This session is for those CRA clients who are comfortable with the platform, and would like to delve a little deeper into researching.You will learn more sophisticated methods of Boolean searching which will, in turn save you time and energy.Have you been searching for something specific, or not quite getting the answers with the searches you've conducted? Please submit examples that we can use to tailor our session to your specific needs.Please send your name, e-mail and the date and time of the session you have registered for to: wisam.mshati@wolterskluwer.com and we will use those examples during the session.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

, December 15, 2014

At the beginning of the year, Remy wrote about extracting Goodreads metadata so he could create his end-of-year reading list. More recently, Mark Llobrera wrote about how he created a visualisation of his reading history. In his case, he’s using JSON to store the information.

This kind of JSON storage is exactly what Tom Critchlow proposes in his post, Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads:

Thinking through building some kind of “web of books” I realized that we could use something similar to RSS to build a kind of decentralized GoodReads powered by indie sites and an underlying easy to parse format.

His proposal looks kind of similar to what Mark came up with. There’s a title, an author, an image, and some kind of date for when you started and/or finished reading the book.

Matt then points out that RSS gets close to the data format being suggested and asks how about using RSS?:

Rather than inventing a new format, my suggestion is that this is RSS plus an extension to deal with books. This is analogous to how the podcast feeds are specified: they are RSS plus custom tags.

Like Matt, I’m in favour of re-using existing wheels rather than inventing new ones, mostly to avoid a 927 situation.

But all of these proposals—whether JSON or RSS—involve the creation of a separate file, and yet the information is originally published in HTML. Along the lines of Matt’s idea, I could imagine extending the h-entry collection of class names to allow for books (or films, or other media). It already handles images (with u-photo). I think the missing fields are the date-related ones: when you start and finish reading. Those fields are present in a different microformat, h-event in the form of dt-start and dt-end. Maybe they could be combined:

<article class="h-entry h-event h-review">
<h1 class="p-name p-item">Book title</h1>
<img class="u-photo" src="image.jpg" alt="Book cover.">
<p class="p-summary h-card">Book author</p>
<time class="dt-start" datetime="YYYY-MM-DD">Start date</time>
<time class="dt-end" datetime="YYYY-MM-DD">End date</time>
<div class="e-content">Remarks</div>
<data class="p-rating" value="5">★★★★★</data>
<time class="dt-published" datetime="YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm">Date of this post</time>
</article>

That markup is simultaneously a post (h-entry) and an event (h-event) and you can even throw in h-card for the book author (as well as h-review if you like to rate the books you read). It can be converted to RSS and also converted to .ics for calendars—those parsers are already out there. It’s ready for aggregation and it’s ready for visualisation.

I publish very minimal reading posts here on adactio.com. What little data is there isn’t very structured—I don’t even separate the book title from the author. But maybe I’ll have a little play around with turning these h-entries into combined h-entry/event posts.

Today marks ten years since the publication of HTML5 For Web Designers, the very first book from A Book Apart.

I’m so proud of that book, and so honoured that I was the first author published by the web’s finest purveyors of brief books. I mean, just look at the calibre of their output since my stumbling start!

Here’s what I wrote ten years ago.

Here’s what Jason wrote ten years ago.

Here’s what Mandy wrote ten years ago.

Here’s what Jeffrey wrote ten years ago.

They started something magnificent. Ten years on, with Katel at the helm, it’s going from strength to strength.

Happy birthday, little book! And happy birthday, A Book Apart! Here’s to another decade!

Guglielmone, Alberto A., author

Hickman, Cleveland P., Jr., author

Bowman, William D., author

Carwardine, Mark, author