PwC Has an Answer for the Blockchain: Audit It [WSJ] Does a decentralized ledger that […]
Author: Caleb Newquist
Founding editor, Going Concern.
Accounting News Roundup: Theranos’s Fraud and Busy Season Self-Control | 03.15.18
SEC Charges Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes With Fraud [WSJ] Ms. Holmes and Theranos’s former president, […]
Off-Balance Sheet Liabilities: Still Got It!
If you were worried that the heyday of companies using accounting rules to stash gazillions […]
Accounting News Roundup: Another Finance Exec Breaks With Tesla; Female CFOs; Who Gets the Pass-through Deduction? | 03.14.18
Tesla Treasurer and VP of Finance Leaves the Company [Bloomberg] Susan Repo, Tesla’s corporate treasurer […]
At PulteGroup, Internal Audit Opens Many Doors
A typical job that an eager-to-leave Big 4 auditor might come across is that of […]
Accounting News Roundup: Tax Reform Glitches; KPMG and GE; Sexual Harassment | 03.13.18
G.O.P. Rushed to Pass Tax Overhaul. Now It May Need to Be Altered. [NYT] There […]
Let’s Cool It With All the ‘CPAs Should Run for Office Because Taxes’ Talk
Crazy enough to think that people will care that he can look at a 1040 […]
Accounting News Roundup: Lots of Bad Audits and CEO-Employee Pay Gaps | 03.12.18
Accounting watchdogs find ‘serious problems’ at 40% of audits [FT] The 52 audit regulators that […]
Accounting News Roundup: Big 4 See, Big 4 Do; Tesla’s Top Accountant Leaves; Politics and Tax Breaks | 03.09.18
KPMG, PwC to include partners’ pay in gender gap calculations [FT] Following EY and Deloitte’s […]
KPMG Employees Seeking Help with Audit Software Might End Up With Phone Sex Instead
One of the best things about working at a Big 4 firm is that for […]
Accounting News Roundup: An Expensive Tax Law; CFO Optimism; EY, Deloitte U.K. Report Pay Gaps | 03.08.18
Tax Law Doesn’t Pay for Itself, Harvard Economists Find [WSJ] But we already knew that. […]