Fall is a quiet time of year for most capital market servants, and with the […]
Author: Caleb Newquist
Founding editor, Going Concern.
Accounting News Roundup: Twitter, Twitter, Twitter; PCAOB’s New Brain Trust; IRS Agent Gets Taste of Own Medicine | 11.07.13
Twitter CFO Was Key to IPO [CFOJ]The deal is set to raise as much as […]
EY Tops Big 4 Las Vegas Firms in Hindering Its Advisory Business Growth
In this day and age of professional service firm trends, it's strange to see an […]
Accounting News Roundup: MF Global Customers All Better Now; Colorado Pot Tax Passes; Another KPMG CEO Spotting | 11.06.13
MF Global Customers Will Recover All They Lost [DealBook]Two years after $1.6 billion vanished from […]
PwC Partner Who Built a Career Out of Making Ireland a Tax Haven Could Fix Everything Over Lunch, FYI
Over at Bloomberg, Jesse Drucker has a lengthy profile of PwC Partner Feargal O'Rourke, the head of […]
Accounting News Roundup: PwC’s Man Behind Tech’s Tax Planning Through Ireland; Konnecting with the KPMG Hat; Internet Tax Plot Points | 10.28.13
Man Making Ireland Tax Avoidance Hub Proves Local Hero [Bloomberg]Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and LinkedIn […]
“Is the CFO’s quitting time after 3 pm?” Coming to an Auditor’s Questionnaire Near You
“If the managers, the C-level and board have good demonstrative behavior, everybody down the line […]
Fall Bassackwards Into This Friday’s Open Items Thread
It's that special time of the week where you can discuss whatever you like. It's […]
Accounting News Roundup: Muddy Waters’ Newest Report; Federal Revenue Breakdown; The Worst ‘Cut and Paste’ Job; | 10.25.13
PCAOB Warns on Internal-Control Problems [CFOJ]The PCAOB found in a review of its latest year […]
Footnotes: ‘Why are auditors different?’; PwC Acquires HumanR; Life at Deloitte Sometimes Includes Book Signings | 10.24.13
In the Accounting World, Resisting Sunlight “Professionals routinely disclose their identify, and they do so […]
GOP Congressman: Sprawling, Despised Government Agency with a History of Inefficiency That Just So Happens to Be a Convienent Political Target Is Misprioritizing Things Because ObamaCare
That is, Dave Camp doesn't believe the IRS's story that the shutdown is the cause […]
McGladrey Tax Associate Opts for Pedantry in His Farewell Email
Unless you work in a soul-sucking environment with a bunch of glory hogging superiors who are constantly kicking you down, you will get several opportunities to showcase your intelligence during your careers.
Sometimes these opportunities arise at logical places and times like a client meeting or maybe during a training session. It's also possible for these opportunities to arise at unexpected times like at a team lunch when you have broccoli stuck in your teeth or when you are forced pull an LBJ on a colleague because, well, these things happen.