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Accounting News Roundup: Get Some FP&A Skills; KPMG’s Forgetful 2015; Tardy PCAOB Filings | 12.22.15
Metrics Sell Doughnuts and More [WSJ]This articles says financial planning and analysis (aka FP&A) skills […]
Former EY Employee Who Liked Secretly Filming People in the Bathroom Given Four Years to Think About His Choices
A judge in London sentenced a former EY employee to four years in prison for […]
Believe it or not…
Between the Spreadsheets is off today (i.e. I'm not writing anything in this space) but […]
Accounting News Roundup: Toshiba’s Fallout; Rebound Auditors; Apple’s Taxes | 12.21.15
Toshiba Sees Record $4.5 Billion Loss, Plans More Job Cuts [Bloomberg]The Japanese industrial conglomerate is […]
Accounting News Roundup: Impressive (Alleged) Fraud; Community Banks Mad at FASB; Sweet Director Gigs | 12.18.15
Ed. note: I'll be MIA most of the day as I'm going to see what […]
Let’s Help Deloitte Global CEO Punit Renjen With His First Tweet
Because it's our job to pay attention to these things, we heard that Deloitte Global […]
Big 4 Firms Still Getting Used to This Whole Regulation Thing
Sometimes I get the impression that the Big 4 don’t fully appreciate what the PCAOB […]
Accountingfly Featured Job of the Week: Senior Tax Accountant With KHA Accountants & Advisors
Accountingfly's featured job this week is for a Senior Tax Accountant with KHA Accountants & […]
Accounting News Roundup: Behind the Scenes of Big 4 and SEC vs. PCAOB; Political Spending Disclosures; Chicken Parm Tastes Good | 12.17.15
Accounting industry and SEC hobble America’s audit watchdog [Reuters]If you've always enjoyed the political jockeying […]
Could Having a ‘Pro-CPA Culture’ Backfire on Accounting Firms Desperate for Talent?
Back in October, we discussed whether the CPA exam would ever become an optional within CPA firms. The reason the topic even came up was due to the fact that while the number of accounting students continues to increase, the number sitting for the CPA exam hasn't kept up, either declining in some years or staying flat.
Accounting News Roundup: Valeant’s Non-GAAP Reporting; Taxes in Dow-DuPont Deal; POTUS Candidate Tax Proposals | 12.16.15
Valeant: An Accounting Pioneer, Too [WSJ]Yesterday I wrote about how general, everyday fretting over non-GAAP […]