January 21, 2022

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Did This Deloitte U.K. Partner Unjustly Rip Young Staffers, Or Did He Speak the Truth?

by Jason Bramwell

“Now, if you want to do what you want [with your time] I suggest that you become millionaires, authors or bums. Failing that, I would like to emphasize the rules of the road for scheduling.” — Alexander Curry, partner and U.K. lead of Deloitte’s strategy and business design practice, Monitor Deloitte, in an internal email […]

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The PCAOB Hopes To Check Audit Partner Naming Off Its To Do List This Year

by Adrienne Gonzalez

The PCAOB has plenty to do, not least of which protecting the investing public and making sure those pesky auditors check the right boxes in their pursuit of passable audits. But now we have an idea what, specifically, they're working on through the end of the year. Forgive the screenshot, cutting and pasting from a […]

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FASB Tries to Simplify GAAP, One Item at a Time

by Adrienne Gonzalez

You will note that a bound copy of GAAP comes in at 7,692 pages (as of 2011). By comparison, the Guinness Book of World Records' thickest book published — Agatha Christie's Miss Marple stories — comes in at 4,032 pages. Knowing this, FASB is attempting to shave off a page or two off the beast […]