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TIL: Ancient Greeks Used Slaves as Auditors So They Could Be Beaten When They Screwed Up
I've had Jacob Soll's book The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of […]
Deloitte Summer Interns Challenge Rival Firms to Step Up and Get Drenched in Ice Water
Surely you've seen the ice bucket challenge, perhaps you've even participated yourself. In case you […]
This Year’s AICPA Accounting Competition Will Double as CGMA Advertising
If you're into cut throat competition among the country's best and brightest accounting students, you […]
EY Compensation Discussions Redux
With one firm's CEO announcing his retirement and another firm taking it on the chin […]
Accounting News Roundup: New York Nails PwC with $25M Fine, 2-Year Ban; Blamess Auditors; Insecure Company Issues Press Release | 08.18.14
Bank Overseer PwC Faces Penalty and Sidelining of Regulatory Consulting Unit [DealBook]Ben Lawsky lays into […]
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Footnotes: Joe Echevarria Retiring; The Too Smart Staff Person; Email Is the Best | 08.15.14
Deloitte CEO Joe Echevarria to Retire to Pursue Life in Public Service Mr. Echevarria has been […]
Here’s Further Proof That Accounting Firms Need a Charge Code for “Wasting Time on Internet”
Okay, maybe some of you don't count the r/accounting subreddit as "proof" but that doesn't […]
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Crony Links: Big 4 Turnover; Dealing with Time Pressure; How Connected Are You?
Links will keep us together. Open Items Reasons for high turnover at Big 4 AccountingWEB Constant Time […]
The Possibility Remains the FASB Could Turn Their Simplification Initiative Into a Giant Charlie Foxtrot
Accounting rules are complex. It is known. The Financial Accounting Standards Board, in an effort […]
Help Me Choose Between EY and Deloitte
Here's a career conundrum from the mailbag: Hello, I am going into my senior […]
Accounting News Roundup: Suitors of Chiquita Are Second Banana to Inversion; Accounting Trouble at Alibaba; How ISIS Uses Taxes | 08.15.14
Chiquita Rejects Unsolicited Offer and Will Proceed With Inversion [DealBook]Cutrale Group and the Safra Group […]