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Quote of the Day: Five Words on Big 4 Audits | 03.15.10

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Caleb Newquist

“Our whole industry is useless.”

~ Unnamed Big 4 Auditor and GC reader

Posted in Quote of the DayTagged Auditing, Big 4, Pessimism, Quote of the Day

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~ Tracy Coenen, on Mr Koss’ resignation as the Audit Committee Chairman of Strattec Security Corp.

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Anyone?

If you want to call attention to bullshit political games, we humbly suggest, “bullshit political games.” Not this:

“This is a huge loophole for Enron-type accounting … In the rule they pass tomorrow they are going to reiterate that the chair of the budget committee has the authority to come up with his own estimate of the budget impact of various pieces of legislation.”

So aggressive revenue recognition, abusing mark-to-market accounting and SPEs = marginalizing the Congressional Budget Office. Got it?

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