Comment: Is the auditor's job really so arduous? A few years ago I started a very small home based business and was careful to report everything accurately, including the fact that the first year' s clear profit was $40. The Kitchener CRA office called with some cockamamie story about my industry having been selected for closer examination that year, and one of their trolls squatted in our house for three days going through every last piece of paper and searching the house for signs of undeclared income, asking for more and more detailed information about the house and wasting a considerable amount of my working time. For some reason they wanted no paper trail of their own, and all I got to close the audit was an answered phone call telling me that I was clear, which of course, I already knew. They even refused to sign a document affirming this. If I get a letter suggesting that I educate myself, they can look forward to a fairly explicit reply.