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Accounting News Roundup: CFO Oversupply; Overstock’s Digital Securities; Strange Sightings at the CFA | 06.09.15
Merger Boom Spawns a CFO Surplus [WSJ]Korn/Ferry says that since 2011, "just five finance chiefs […]
Talk Amongst Yourselves (You Pick the Topic)
I'm at the AICPA Practice Symposium and Tech+ Conference this week. This year, just for […]
Get Through to Us
I'm attending the three-headed dragon of accounting conferences — The AICPA Practitioners Symposium-Tech+/AAM Summit/AAA National […]
Audit Committees Might Get More Homework
Chief Accountant James Schnurr let it slip that the Commission is preparing a concept release […]
Accounting News Roundup: KPMG Takes More Kicks Over FIFA; Demanding Jobs Hurt People; Taxing Carried Interest | 06.08.15
Corruption in FIFA? Its Auditors Saw None [NYT]Forensic expert Barry Jay Epstein is quoted as […]
Friday Footnotes: PwC Alamo; CSC Settles; KPMG’s Ignition Center No. 2 | 06.05.15
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Pope Figured The Lord’s Work Could Use a Good Auditor
Here's one way to stay out of hell: The Vatican appointed its first auditor-general on […]
Deloitte Employees Have an Excused Absence
Today, Deloitte extends its tradition of issuing a press release stating that their employees are […]
Accounting News Roundup: Audit Firms Show Improvement; New Twitter CAO; Terrible Hoaxes | 06.05.15
Big Firms Getting Better Grades on Internal Control Audits: PCAOB [CFOJ]Director of Registration and Inspections […]
ICYMI: AICPA Will Squeeze Excel Into the CPA Exam This Decade
The AICPA reports that Excel's ubiquity in the accounting profession caused a bunch of people […]
Ironic (or Genuinely Interested) Accountants Can Learn About Working at the IRS Today
If you are interested in a job at the IRS because you can't help but […]