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Accounting News Roundup: Wanting to Know More About Next Deloitte CEO’s Past; LuxLeaks Whistleblower’s Motives; Keeping Life Sane When Work Is Not | 02.23.15

Deloitte US First Female CEO: We Wish We Really Knew You [Francine McKenna/Medium]
Cathy Engelbert has experience in pharm and life sciences. FM asks, "Wouldn’t it be nice if investors and other interested parties could look up Engelbert in a public and easily accessible registry and find out about all the audit clients where she has been a lead partner or a Quality Control partner? Has she ever been named in a lawsuit or been sanctioned? […] It would be interesting, for example, to know if Engelbert was working in or leading the Bristol-Meyers Squibb audit in 2000 and 2001 when the company paid $150 million in penalties to the SEC for accounting fraud."

The Quiet Man Who Made Big Trouble for Little Luxembourg [Bloomberg Business]
Antoine Deltour faces prison time for leaking confidential tax forms: "Deltour became disillusioned with what he saw in his auditing job at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Luxembourg and in 2010 decided to quit. On the way out, he took along a copy of an internal folder containing hundreds of confidential tax agreements between the Grand Duchy and multinational companies. 'Sometimes I think about it during the night,' Deltour said in a Feb. 17 interview in Luxembourg when asked whether the prospect of a jail sentence worries him. 'What I did is in the public interest. I don’t understand why I could be the victim of a strong sentence if I acted in the general interest.' " 

Keep Your Home Life Sane when Work Gets Crazy [HBR]
For starters, Penn's Stewart Friedman writes, "forget balance": "It’s not possible to have perfect equilibrium among the four domains of life – work, home, community, and self – every day, every week, or even every year. Naturally, there are times when any one of these aspects of your life has to take center stage." 

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Man consumes 182 slices to earn bacon-eating world record [WOKV]
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