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Author: Caleb Newquist
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Footnotes: Ex-Deloitte Vice Chairman Gets 21 Months for Insider Trading; A Facebook Fraud; Another IRS Payout | 10.26.12
Former Deloitte vice chairman get 21 months for insider trading [CT] The Plot to Destroy […]
PCAOB Discovers That Some Firms Consider Audit Quality to Be a Nice Idea That Doesn’t Work in Real Life
PCAOB Board Member Jeanette Franzel, CPA, CIA, CMA, CGFM, gave a speech at University of Tennessee […]
Accounting News Roundup: End the Audit Mandate; 10 Years at One Job?; Fear the Frankenstorm | 10.26.12
‘Fiscal cliff’ already hampering U.S. economy, report says [WaPo]The “fiscal cliff” is still two months […]
Footnotes: Obama’s Tax Plan; NFL’s Tax Status; Charities’ Lobbying Efforts | 10.25.12
CEOs’ self-serving deficit manifesto [T]he letter basically just says “please cut our taxes, raise taxes on […]
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FASB Chair Vows to Finish Term Cooperating, Condorsing, Enverging, Whatever
The last ten years haven't gone exactly the way the bookworms at the FASB wanted. […]
PwC Asks That You Look No Further Than the Firm’s Loss of a Client to Ernst & Young as Evidence of a ‘Fiercely Competitive’ Audit Market
Last month when PwC filed a paper with the UK's Competition Commission that contradicted the […]
Dual Monitors Will Allow PwC Auditors to Finally Get Some Work Done
One of the most frustrating things that plagues many capital market servants is not having the necessary equipment to do one’s job. There’s nothing quite like your pull-start laptop that runs Excel 97 crashing in the middle of the day to railroad your progress.
You Can Tell the AICPA Is Getting Serious About Diversity Because It Formed a Commission
Leaders in the public accounting profession love to proclaim the industry's commitment to diversity. Ask […]
ANR: CEOs Want Congress to Get It Together; FATCA’s False Start; Start Your Own Ethical Employee Factory | 10.25.12
CEOs Call for Deficit Action [WSJ]Chief executives of more than 80 big-name U.S. corporations, from […]
Footnotes: U.S. Bites BofA’s Over Bad Mortgages; Vault’s Top Internships; Obama’s Second-term Tax Plans | 10.24.12
U.S. Sues BofA for $1 Billion Over Mortgage Losses [WSJ] Hollywood tax incentives come under […]
Another Small Accounting Firm Gets to Know BDO
Two weeks after Argy, Wiltse & Robinson climbed aboard Captain Jack's ship, BDO has found a […]