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Footnotes: Charlie Gasparino’s Bright Idea; The Perks of Being a Communist; But There Were No Drones In Rome! | 12.05.13

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Newly proposed IRS regulations fall far short [Congress Blog via The Hill]

Nelson Mandela is dead, and it's for real this time [NYT]

Just so "Jayne Kozvan" doesn't email me asking why we didn't cover this: a jury has cleared NIC CFO Steve Kozvan of securities fraud [KC Business Journal]

Charlie Gasparino Has An Idea [Dealbreaker]

Too bad Amazon wasn't founded in Caligula's Rome or they could just avoid this sales tax problem completely (?) [Bloomberg]

Best headline ever about a common scam: Hello? This is the IRS…Not [Fox Business]

Didja know… if you're a Communist, you don't have to pay Social Security taxes? [Forbes]

A bunch of Russian diplomats have been charged with Medicare fraud [NYT]

Twitter really doesn't allow enough characters for Francine to tell us how she really feels… good thing we know.

CEOs Make Final Pitch To Limit Scope of SEC's Pay Ratio Rule [Compliance Week]

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We Picture the Trophies as Gold Plated 10-Key Calculators

red_carpet.jpgYou may have noticed that we reference a lot of stories from across the pond. Simply, it appears that the British seem to be a little more concerned with accounting world than us here in the States, where we’re virtually ignored at every turn (except when poop + fan).
The Brits are so enamored with accounting, in fact, that Accountancy Age, bless their hearts, has an awards ceremony.
The awards have their own website with a countdown clock, a gallery with last year’s winners, oh and you’re allowed to vote on Employer of the Year and Personality of the Year. Other awards include Audit Team of the Year, Tax Team of the Year, and Accountant of the Year.
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There’s a lot of directions we could go with this but this has to be the most obvious case of accountant self-aggrandizement we’ve ever seen. We can’t even fathom the idea of hundreds of bean counters in tuxedos and cocktail dresses accepting hideous trophies under the pretense that the work done demands such recognition.
Perhaps since accountants are so used to an environment devoid of gratitude, Accountancy Age thought they would go out of their way to start showing some appreciation. WTFK really?
In any case, we would request Accountancy Age to assign us as a Joan Rivers role of sorts in order to liven up the bean counter Oscars. Since Accountancy Age’s list is a little ho-hum, come up with some of your own ideas for awards and their nominees in the comments.
Accountancy Age Awards 2009 shortlist announced [Accountancy Age]

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Jack Welch is Not Buying the Whole Work-Life Balance Thing

art.welch.cnn.jpgJack Welch, who is increasingly looking like Gollum these days, has been quoted saying that there is no such thing as “work-life” balance only “work-life choices”, according to a story in the Wall St. Journal.
The quotes were in context of women who choose between spending time with family and those that want to “reach the top” but you gents aren’t immune.
Accounting firms are constantly selling “work-life balance” as a priority but we’ll take Welch’s comments as gospel here since, nothing we’ve seen or heard makes us believe otherwise.
So next time you get the work-life rhetoric, you’ve got some published material for your back up your “I call bullshit” argument. You’re welcome.
Welch: ‘No Such Thing as Work-Life Balance’ [WSJ]