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Author: Adrienne Gonzalez
Adrienne is a 15-year veteran of the accounting industry, if by "veteran" you mean "vulture prowling the periphery of the profession waiting for something exciting to happen."
She has been spewing vitriol on Going Concern since the site was founded in 2009. A former CPA review employee, she has sat through more FAR classes than any CPA exam candidate ever could -- even one who has failed FAR seven times -- and can still recall most of the mnemonics all these years later.
Accounting News Roundup: Banks Have a Culture Problem; CPA to Pay for Failure to CPA; A Love that Burns | 10.21.14
Fed's Dudley Warns Banks Must Improve Culture or Be Broken Up [Bloomberg]Banks must change the […]
Footnotes: Blow the Whistle; Quality of Our People; Get More Done in Fewer Hours | 10.20.14
Jury Awards Trinity Whistleblower $175 Million in Guardrail Suit Pays better than whistleblowing to the […]
Let’s Talk About (Possible) Inappropriate Advances at the Office
Someone alerted me to this Another 71 thread and I feel like you guys can […]
AICPA to EEOC: Classifying Partners as Employees Might Cause Full Destruction of Capital Markets
I could summarize the press release we just got on this but I think it's […]
AICPA Seeks to Better Weed Out Losers, Misfits with Evolved CPA Exam
We heard they want to make BEC an 8 hour marathon just for kicks.
Footnotes: Morgan Stanley Goes Shopping; Canceled Debt; Obama Gets Declined | 10.17.14
Morgan Stanley, armed with cash from fixed income dump, goes shopping [Reuters] Collaborative workspaces are […]
Let’s Watch This Audit Senior Quit His Job in the Most Fabulous Way
If you’re going to go, you might as well go out in style.
Fired PwC Employee Is Suing Comcast But Not to Get His Job Back
Conal O'Rourke will not go quietly into that dark night without a fight, folks, he […]
EY Now Hazing New Hires With the Awful EY Anthem
Our tip box has been abuzz with the EY Anthem (yes, it's a thing) over […]
Accounting News Roundup: Merger Madness; The Inequality Problem; Keurig Comes Out Clean | 10.17.14
Janet Yellen Warns of Inequality Threat [NYT]Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, said Friday […]
Footnotes: Manipulation; Fake IRS News; A Bad Startup CEO | 10.16.14
SEC Charges New York-Based High Frequency Trading Firm With Fraudulent Trading to Manipulate Closing Prices […]