Accounting is complicated Here’s a New York Times column by William Cohan on FASB’s Accounting […]
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Accounting News Roundup: Former Deloitte Employee Sentenced for Attempted Murder | 05.11.17
Accountants behaving badly Here’s a crazy story about a former Deloitte employee, Alan Fowler, who […]
Big 4 Audit Quality Hiding in Plain Sight: Restatement Mentions in PCAOB Reports
For the last several years, one very interesting audit quality metric has not been widely […]
Let’s Revel in These Bitter 1-Star Reviews of Accounting Firms
I mentioned the Vault Accounting 50 yesterday, and even though we don’t pore over the […]
Accounting News Roundup: ‘Strikingly Young’ PwC and Filing Last Minute Tax Returns | 04.18.17
Strikingly young PwC Last year we mentioned a class action lawsuit against PwC that accused […]
Accounting News Roundup: When Good KPMG Auditors Go Bad and Brazen Tax Scams | 04.17.17
It’s hard to watch when auditors make bad decisions. When good auditors go bad The […]
Accounting News Roundup: Bad Press for KPMG and Revolving Doors | 04.14.17
Bad press for KPMG Last month we noted how PwC had become the Big 4 […]
Accounting News Roundup: Fired KPMG Partners and Tax Return Selfies | 04.12.17
Fired KPMG partners By now you’ve probably heard that six KPMG employees, including the head […]
Six KPMG Employees Fired After Leak of PCAOB Inspection Info
Updates to report that individuals were terminated appear throughout. Welp, this looks bad. The Wall […]
Accounting News Roundup: Big Auditors, A Tax Situation and United | 04.11.17
Big auditors Accounting Today reports on the latest numbers out of Audit Analytics on public […]
PwC Keeps The Oscars Gig
After dealing with weeks of embarrassment, brand damage, ridicule, repeated apologies, rejection and capitulation, PwC […]
We Finally Found a Service That a Big 4 Firm Won’t Provide
One thing we talk about around here from time to time is the fact that […]