20% of US Firms Cook the Books During Earnings: Report [Yahoo]In an anonymous survey of CFOs […]
Author: Caleb Newquist
Founding editor, Going Concern.
Footnotes: More Mortgage Fraud Allegations; A Violence Tax?; Deduction Cap Hypotheticals | 10.09.12
U.S. files mortgage fraud lawsuit against Wells [Reuters] 2013 State Business Tax Climate Index Not […]
PwC Poaches Someone From EY and Issues a Press Release, Part I
Let this serve as the inaugural post to the immensely popular sister series: KPMG v. PwC. […]
Chuck Schumer Won’t Have Any of This Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Talk
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) noted that many of the reform plans that are under discussion […]
Recruiting Season: Ascending to Public Accounting Royalty; Choosing Between 3 of the Big 4; Doomed to Depression?
Welcome to the latest edition of Recruiting Advice: Take it or Go Screw Yourself. Have […]
ANR: International M&A Struggles with a GAAP in Standards; Nortel Case FINALLY Wrapping Up; KPMG Short Hills Swaps Space for Flexiness | 10.09.12
Accounting Differences Dampen Cross-Border Mergers [CFO]Based on M&A deals in 32 countries between 1998 and […]
Footnotes: Welch Doesn’t Waffle; Mickelson on MNF; Preachin’ Politics | 10.05.12
Monday is a one of those pseudo-holidays so we'll only be making a brief appearance […]
Corporate America Encouraged By Rhetoric From Presidential Candidates
Yesterday we attempted to make some sense of President Obama's statement about ending "tax breaks […]
PwC’s New Los Angeles Office to Have Walking Workstations That Will Mostly Collect Dust
PwC is moving into some new office space in Los Angeles next spring and, naturally, […]
ANR: Romney Was Just Kidding About That 47% Stuff; Everyone Say Hi to the SASB; Think Twice Before Gifting That Camera Pen | 10.05.12
Jobless rate tumbles to near four-year low [Reuters]The unemployment rate dropped to a near four-year […]
Footnotes: Nally Yearns for China; The Forgotten Tax Cut; Everyone Loves Luca | 10.04.12
PwC global chair hoping for China audit resolution [Rueters] Mitt Romney's Trillion Dollar Tax Cut […]
Let’s Try to Make Some Sense of President Obama’s “Tax Breaks for Companies Shipping Jobs Overseas” Statement
One other major point of contention (that relates to taxes) in last night's debate was […]