Accounting News Roundup: The PwC Partner at MF Global; Schumer Pulling for...
PwC Partner At MF Global Has Long, And Mixed, Track Record [Forbes]Francine McKenna provides Exhibit A for why the PCAOB should require firms to name the audit partners for their public company...
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Sorry Ladies, This Ryan Gosling Look-alike Is Just an Accountant
If you're in Detroit and had your picture taken recently with a guy who you thought was eye-candy actor Ryan Gosling, you should know that it was simply a tax accountant who looks quite a bit like...
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Protesting Taxes Seems More Effective When the Focus Isn't on the the Signs
Granted, we don't want to see an average member of the Tea Party sans pants. But you have to admit, these Italian businessmen are on to something:Five Italian businessmen stripped off their trousers...
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A Dozen ParenteBeard Parents Have Up and Quit; Probably Joining BDO
Joe DiStefano has nice scoop over at PhillyDeals about twelve ParenteBeard partners packing it in, sounds like it was unexpected, and taking their services over to Bravo Delta Oscar:According to...
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Footnotes: Today Show Wrist Slasher Blames IRS; National Impact Day; A Couple...
NY DA: Accountant stole from Holocaust survivor [AP via WSJ]Naples accountant gets prison for stealing from Lee County business [FOX4]Deloitte employees take part in National Impact Day [FOX 6]United...
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Accounting News Roundup: Hello, Baby GAAP; The First Fashion-Forward...
Groups Propose to Simplify Accounting for Small Firms [NYT]The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a trade group, will announce on Monday that it is has created a “framework” that would...
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Going Concern Jobs Is Now at Your Service
Back in February we briefly let you in on a new venture that we were working on called Going Concern Jobs. While there had been many discussions here at GC about the opportunities around job boards and...
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Your Final CPA Exam Scores for Q2 Are Bursting Forth
Apparently the excitement started this weekend, a few days ahead of schedule. I received this email Saturday:Hi Adrienne,The latest batch scores have dropped for TN. The tweet has not posted from NASBA...
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What's in a (Big 4 Partner's) Name? Maybe a Lot
On Friday, Francine McKenna provided a perfect example of what investors could learn about the audit partners for public companies should the PCAOB start requiring the naming of names. Francine,...
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Let's Welcome Ernst & Young CEO-elect Mark Weinberger to Twitter, Everybody
M. Dubs broke his Twitter cherry on a Saturday:My congratulations to @hamdiulukaya CEO of @chobani - our World Entrepreneur of the Year 2013! #WEOY— Mark Weinberger (@Mark_Weinberger) June 8, 2013This...
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Oddly, Dem and GOP Leaders Don't Agree on Next Act in IRS Investigation Circus
Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) shared some new info yesterday about some of the employees in the IRS's Cincinnati office -- including a self-described "conservative Republican" -- who were all,...
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Footnotes: BoMo Q&A; Not So Fast, REIT Wannabes; Deloitte Went Boutique...
How Managers Do Love the Leasing ED: Let Me Count the Ways [Accounting Onion]Here's an interview with PwC's Bob Moritz that I haven't finished yet because it's so long. [AT]Rear slap gets ex-NFL star...
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Accounting News Roundup: Deloitte Sees Lloyds Dismissal Differently; Another...
Occupy Wall Street Stylists Pursue U.K. Tax Dodgers [Bloomberg]UK Uncut has no offices and no formal leader, and key members often plot strategy over midnight pints of ale in London pubs. Yet, with...
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Teen Mom-cum-Porn Star Farrah Abraham Is Going to Concentrate on Internal...
After getting on a MTV show more or less because she had sex with a dude with a bad overbite and then getting paid $1.5 million for having sex on camera, it only makes sense that Farrah Abraham would...
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Financial Accounting Foundation Seems Slightly Annoyed with the AICPA's New...
Judging by the AICPA's PR blitz, you'd think that everyone was excited about their release of its Financial Reporting Framework for Small- and Medium-Sized Entities. Just out of curiousity, I went back...
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Those Walking Workstations Aren't Collecting Dust at Just Big PwC Offices
Nope! They're good enough for central Pennsylvania, too. The Harrisburg office only has about 60 people, but they are pulling up the stakes at Market Street, and getting brand new 6,300 square-foot...
View ArticleFootnotes: Grant Thornton's New COO; More on ParenteBeard's Partner Exodus;...
Here's a nice article on EY Olympian Gwen Jorgensen. [ESPN]Mike McGuire will replace Lou Grabowsky is new Partner in charge of operations for Grant Thornton. [GT]Sad: Tracy Lefteroff, global managing...
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Private Equity Capitalizes on Chinese Firms’ Depressed Shares [DealBook]Don't let the headline fool you. This article features a nightmare deal for Ambow Education Holding and how it blew up on Baring...
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The Tax Man Drumeth
With the sound of the drums echoing off the walls of the surrounding buildings, it feels as if it could be an impromptu street performance - but it's not. This is tax collecting Bangalore-style. Fed up...
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The Accountant's Definitive Guide to Interviews, Part One
Continuing in efforts to best prepare you for your next job (maybe one you’ll land through GC Jobs) I wanted talk about interviewing.By this point you have a nice polished resume and well worded cover...
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