• Rangel Says House Democrats Will Renew Tax Breaks – Renewal of Chuck’s leases on rent controlled apartments are another story. [Bloomberg]
• ‘Botax’ In Senate Health Bill Upsets Plastic Surgeons – An additional 5% tax on those calf implants. [NPR]
• Losing Altitude – CFO pay fell in ’08. Cue the trombone. [CFO]
• Bagel Company Owner Indicted for Stealing Withholding Taxes – This would never happen at David’s. [Web CPA]
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• Levin apologises for $164bn AOL deal – It was just arguably the worst merger ever, it’s not like it brought down the entire economy or anything. [FT]
• CBIZ, Mayer Hoffman McCann buy South Florida firm – MHM functions as the audit arm of CBIZ and took the attest portion of Goldstein Lewin & Co. while CBIZ took the non-attest portion. [Kansas City Business Journal]
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• H&R Block settles nationwide IRA lawsuit – Not such a good day for H&RB. [Reuters]
Review Comments | 09.16.09
• Why Are We Working Late? – Leave your terrible excuses in the comments. Shake Shack or In ‘n’ Out better be involved. [The Onion]
• New Revenue-Recognition Rules: the Apple of Apple’s Eye? – Revenue recognition for iPhones. If you want the geek Steve Jobs fanboy version, that tries miserably to make fun of accounting, go here. [CFO]
• Where can you curse at your boss and not get fired? In another country: Spain – If you’ve tried and failed Stateside, leave the transcript in the comments. [NYDN]
• ACL Services Releases AuditExchange 2.0 – Don’t say we never tell you about anything useful. [it.tmcnet]
• Cuomo subpoenas 5 Bank of America directors – Someone make this thing stop. If we force Ken Lewis and John Thain to go toe to toe in a KY wrestling match, will everyone let it go? [Reuters]
• Citi to pay back U.S. when recovery more evident – But we could. We just don’t want to. Timing is everything, you know. [Reuters]
Review Comments | 12.04.09
• IRS & California Slap $1.9m Tax Liens Against Pamela Anderson – And her two friends. [TaxProf Blog]
• How to Keep Your Firm Out of Trouble in this Holiday Party Season – Not listed: Don’t let interns attend. [CPA Trendlines]
• Superstar Finance Blogger Week 3: Francine McKenna at re: The Auditors – Hey, we’ve heard of her! [Blogging Suits]
• House Approves 45 Percent Estate Tax Extension – So much for dying in 2010. [Web CPA]
• OTB Enters Bankruptcy Protection – Speaking of death. Will you miss the plight? [City Room/NYT]