BDO Went to America’s Hat (Again) for Its Next Global CEO
BDO went to the well again (the well being Canada) to find its newest global CEO, Pat Kramer. And the guy Kramer is replacing is the same guy he replaced as BDO Canada CEO seven years ago. BDO has today [Nov. 1] announced that Pat Kramer, former CEO of BDO in Canada and a member […]
Layoff Watch ’20: At Least One BDO Canada Office Is Downsizing Its Headcount
[Updated on July 10 with additional information.] Unfortunately we are hearing more news of Canadian accounting professionals losing their jobs. Although we haven’t been able to confirm yet if there have been firm-wide job cuts at BDO Canada, we were told by a source at BDO in Vancouver on July 9 that several people at […]
BDO Poaches Someone From Deloitte and Issues a Press Release, Part II
People who know, know BDO … just L-O-V-E-S poaching the Big 4, especially in Canada. It makes Bravo Delta Oscar feel all puffy-chested. Lately, Deloitte Canada has been a partner training ground for future BDOers, as weird as that sounds. In early March, Erica McCurdy joined BDO as a partner after a 10-year career at […]
BDO Poaches Someone From PwC and Issues a Press Release, Parts II and III
With all this bad stuff like layoffs and pay cuts and furloughs going on in public accounting, it warms the cockles of my heart that there’s still a little competitive poaching going on. We have to go to Australia to find some, but like I tell my kids: You get what you get and you […]
BDO Poaches Someone From Deloitte and Issues a Press Release, Part I
So around 12:30 this morning, as I checked BDO Canada’s website for any kind of update on the BDO employee in Toronto who has COVID-19, I noticed that the firm recently hired a new assurance partner for its office in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Her name is Erica McCurdy, and she left Deloitte Canada to join […]
BDO Employee In Canada Infected with Coronavirus
BDO is the first non-Big 4 firm that we know of that reportedly has an employee in Toronto who tested positive for COVID-19. Here’s what Global News in Canada reported on March 10: Global News has obtained a memo sent to workers at BDO Canada on Wellington Street East in Toronto advising them that a […]