5 Crazy Fraud Stories You Would Never Believe (If They Weren’t True)
From Russian government assassinations to multimillion-dollar blood-testing scams, there’s never a shortage of surreal fraud stories to rock the financial industry each year. And each year, the...
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Grant Thornton Poaches Two People From KPMG and Issues a Press Release, Part I
A couple of months ago, we reported that a partner and a principal bolted Grant Thornton earlier this year for the blue-and-white confines of KPMG, one of whom actually left and came back to the House...
View ArticleHow New Accounting Grads Can Tune Up Their Diversity BS Detectors
How can CPA firms be so white and male when they’re so dedicated to diversity? Look at any firm’s career site and you’ll see a carefully written commitment to diversity. Read enough of them and you’ll...
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Winners v. Losers This Week: Dick Pics, Grant Thornton’s Heyday, Auditors...
Back in the day we used to end the week with a “Quote of the Week,” but that shit gets boring fast, so instead I got the bright idea to do a Winners vs Losers recap. You should be able to figure out...
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Bad MLB Pitcher-Turned-Bad Accountant Fesses Up to Stealing $145,000 From...
The Minnesota Star Tribune has an update on Ben Hendrickson, the former Milwaukee Brewers pitcher whose post-baseball accounting career took a dubious turn while employed by Floors Northwest in...
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Accountants Behaving Badly: Murder, Webcam Models, Defrauding Celebrities
It was a bad week for accountants from the U.K. with the first name of Andrew. AFC Fylde accountant blew £240,000 on sex, drink and drugs [BBC News] A semi-professional socc … I mean, football team in...
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Grant Thornton Poaches Someone From KPMG and Issues a Press Release, Part II
In the comment section of an article we posted on May 10 about a managing director and a partner recently fleeing KPMG to join Grant Thornton’s Corporate Value Consulting practice, we got a tip that...
View ArticleHiring Watch ’19: Become the Next National Taxpayer Advocate
The woman in the photo above is Nina Olson. She is the National Taxpayer Advocate. Olson has been the National Taxpayer Advocate since March 2001. But she will retire on July 31, 2019. Now you, tax guy...
View ArticleIRS Agent Lady Allegedly Tries and Fails to Scam Unwitting Taxpayer Out of...
When we talk about IRS scams, we’re usually referring to chain-smoking Indian dudes packed into a dingy call center trying to scam Google Play cards out of your grandma. Although few Americans might...
View ArticleBig 4 Shut Out of Working Mother’s List of the Top 10 Companies For...
The Working Mother list of the top 50 companies for multicultural women came out last week, and I honestly didn’t realize this was a thing until I saw this self-congratulatory tweet from PwC while...
View ArticleKPMG Gets Another Award For Being the Big 4 Firm That Is the Least Old, Male,...
Did you guys see DiversityInc’s 2019 ranking of the top 5o companies for diversity? In past years, there’s been most, if not all, of the Big 4 represented. But not recently. Only one Big 4 firm made...
View ArticleOutgoing Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert Is Going to Be Commissioner of the WNBA
For those of us wondering what Cathy Engelbert is going to do next once her term as Deloitte CEO ends on June 1, it looks like we have our answer. The WNBA announced today that it has hired Engelbert...
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Which Big 4 Firm Is Paying Its Interns the Most?
Summer internship season is fast approaching, as thousands of bright-eyed young men and women will soon flood accounting firms all over the country, hoping to not have their wills crushed and not screw...
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News to Your Ears: The AICPA Now Has a CPA Exam Podcast
Long-winded personal anecdote incoming but I have to admit something to y’all, which I’m going to do because I trust you and I know you won’t make fun of me for it. And if you do, well, it’ll at least...
View ArticleTwo Internal Auditors Thought They Could Get Away with Insider Trading, LOL
Two internal auditor buddies got a starring role in an SEC litigation release after they were charged with insider trading for monkeying around with secret information about their respective employers....
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He Made the American Dream Real: From Foreign Lands to Big 4 Auditor to a...
Does your accounting job have you trapped in an accrual world? Do you ever want to ditch it all and travel down a different career path? You could go back to school to become an orthopedic surgeon, but...
View ArticleLayoff Watch ’19: United Airlines Is Axing 100 Accounting Jobs in Houston
Not-so-good news today from the Associated Press: United Airlines says it will cut about 100 accounting jobs in Houston in July and shift the work to a contractor. The airline reported the layoffs in a...
View ArticleGet Me the F*ck Out of Here: First Steps For Quitting Your Job in Public...
A year ago, our contributor Megan Lewczyk (what the hell happened to her, anyway? Megan, send a smoke signal if you’re OK) wrote a field guide to quitting your job in public accounting. Unlike many of...
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Accountants Behaving Badly: Busted with Meth, Stealing From Clients, Bank Fraud
A look at the best of the worst accountant malfeasance around the globe over the past week or so. British accountant, 47, faces the death penalty in the Philippines ‘after being caught with meth in a...
View ArticleAuditor Swap: Mazars Wins Goldman Sachs International Audit Firm Sweepstakes
For weeks, the rags in the U.K. have speculated about which midtier firm would win the battle to audit Goldman Sachs’ London-based European operations, a job PwC has held for what seems like a...
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