We’ve finally got a few details to share with you on last week’s layoffs at Grant Thornton.
According to a tip we received, ten professionals in Southern California were laid off, nine in the audit practice and one in the advisory practice. If you’ve got more details on these cuts on GT, get in touch with us and discuss in the comments.
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Not surprisingly, the Big 4 find themselves on another best of list, this time the best for Working Mother 100 Best Companies for 2009. RSM McGladrey and Grant Thornton also made the list so it seems legit.
All these firms also made the magazine’s work/life balance list, although there doesn’t seem to be any difference sans one company we didn’t take the time to identify.
Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any kind of formal ranking, unlike the BW list, so no firm has the ultimate bragging rights, which is probably upsetting Deloitte who was probably going for the Grand Slam of magazine Best Of Lists.
A quick run down of some stats after the jump:
• Deloitte had the highest number of women on their Board of Directors at 29%
• 50% of PwC’s top earners are women
• 44% of E&Y managers are women and they have the most women partners, according to the list
• RSM’s total workforce is 55% women.
You can check more stats at each firm’s page. Frankly, for a major firm to NOT make this list doesn’t um, look too good (ahem, BDO).
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Hertz Has Second Thoughts About Suing Audit Integrity
Turns out Hertz doesn’t have the stones to follow through on its lawsuit against Audit Integrity, as the car rental company has dropped its libel suit against the independent research firm.
Audit Integrity issued a report back in September that stated that Hertz was one of several companies that “face[d] ‘the greatest risk of bankruptcy’ in the next 12 months.” Hertz took the high road, suing Audit Integrity for saying such mean (and untruthful) things.
Well now Hertz has decided that it’s not worth the time and money. That very well may be, although were more inclined to think that they came to their senses that suing an independent research firm for their opinion wasn’t such a hot idea.
Hertz’s aborted suit joins the pantheon of other unsuccessful legal efforts by companies to silence disagreeable analysts. Those that brought such actions include BankAtlantic Bancorp, retailer Overstock.com and drug-maker Biovail.
Overstock suing an analyst for saying not-so-nice things? There’s a shocker. BankAtlantic went after DB’s favorite woodland creature, Dick Bové (which is sort of embarrassing since he’s so cuddly), and Biovail’s lawsuit caused the SEC and DOJ to launch investigations which resulted in the company paying millions in fines and pleading guilty to criminal charges. Not exactly pristine company.
Audit Integrity — not being one to just bend over for some a company that once was endorsed by a certain acquitted murderer — called on the SEC to investigate Hertz for this dodgy lawsuit and now Hertz seems to have seen the light.
Press Release.pdf
Hertz puts brake on libel suit against analyst [Crain’s New York]
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Hertz caves [Felix Salmon/Reuters]