Victor Fleischer writes at DealBook that Michigan Congressman Dave Camp's proposal to simplify partnership and […]
Author: Caleb Newquist
Founding editor, Going Concern.
Hiring Watch ’13: Grant Thornton Chicago on the Hunt for Forensic and Investigative Dynamos
Last Friday while I was poorly navigating North Carolina, a tipster passed along an enthusiastic message that he received from a Grant Thornton National Talent Acquisition bounty hunter. And from the sounds of it, GT wants some fresh faces in their forensics group:
Accounting News Roundup: Bank of America’s Shifty Restructuring; Financial Reporting’s Waning Relevance; Tax ‘Em if They Smoke ‘Em | 04.02.13
Bank of America Finds Profit in Foreign Tax Credit Moves [Bloomberg]What the bank calls “restructuring” […]
FASB Wants to Make a Comment Period Longer, But How Can You Make Punctuation Longer? Maybe If It’s a Comment Ellipsis!
Everybody's sick of banks being too big to fail. The only thing Americans ever liked […]
Footnotes: Ed Koch’s Lousy Estate Planning; Amazon and Overstock Lose; Taxing Strippers| 03.29.13
Is This a Good Time to Reform the Mortgage Interest Deduction? [TaxVox/TPC] Big Companies, Low […]
Accounting News Roundup: Zuckerberg’s Tax Bill; Grant Thornton’s Competitive Poaching; Tax Dilemmas in Sitcoms | 03.29.13
~ Ed. note: TPTB are insisting on a half day today and who are we […]
Accounting News Roundup: DOMA Decision Could End Grossing Up; IRS Loses Another Appeal; Bigger Is Better in Iowa | 03.28.13
DOMA's Elimination Could Benefit Ernst & Young, Google, Facebook By Ending 'Grossing Up' [HP]After her […]
Going Concern March Madness Busy Season Survival: The Sweet Sixteen, Day Two
I'm in Raleigh, North Carolina today visiting students at North Carolina State, so I apologize for the delay in getting to the bottom half of the Sweet Sixteen in GCMM. I know you've shaking with anticipation.
Accounting News Roundup: TurboTax’s Fight Against Simple Filing; SCOTUS Tax Cases; The PCAOB’s ‘Terminal Inconsequence’ | 03.27.13
How maker of TurboTax fought free, simple tax filing [ProPublica via TaxProf]Imagine filing your income taxes […]
Going Concern March Madness: Busy Season Survival — Food & Beverage vs. Technology, The Sweet Sixteen
If you picked upsets in your NCAA Mens bracket and all the favorites in your GCMMBSSF&BvsT bracket, then you're in pretty good shape today. My hunch is that you went for the opposite strategy.
While favorites Excel and coffee had no problems and the wins by Bagels and Key Shortcuts were very satisfying, the loss by Someone Else's Hotpocket from the Freezer was devastating. DEVASTATING.
Accounting News Roundup: Deloitte and Roland Berger Rumors Return; Death of the Death Tax; An Excel RPG. Yep. | 03.26.13
Deloitte in advanced talks to buy Roland Berger: paper [Reuters]Deloitte is in advanced talks to […]
Footnotes: BYU Brackets; Schroders Going Back to PwC; Make Your Firm a Partner Magnet | 03.25.13
Dell Founder Said to Weigh Switching to Blackstone Offer [DealBook] NACVA Merges CVA and AVA […]