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Footnotes: A Tax Messi; Actually, the IRS Is Nothing Like Enron; Staffing...
Spanish Court Files Tax Evasion Charges Against Messi [NYT]Should Small Businesses Adopt New Accounting Standards? [BBW]Internship Ends With No Job Offer? How to Cope [WSJ]Ways and Means Chairman: IRS...
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Big Four fee growth outpaces smaller firms [Accountancy Age]The Big Four accounting firms registered an impressive 7.7% increase in fee income over the last financial year, while smaller firms...
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Georgia Man Discovers IRS Wasn't Joking About the Possibility of His Fake...
If you are currently thinking about engaging in any tax fraud, you should know that if the IRS is gracious enough to inform you that your actions -- like, say, claiming ownership of a treasury bond...
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Paternity Leave at Accounting Firms Better Than Getting a Tie for Father's Day
Sunday is Father's Day, so our friends at Vault have shared the results from their working parent survey that cover the dear ol' dads and accounting firms faired pretty well:Â [S]urvey respondents who...
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NASBA Stands Behind FASB's Private GAAP, Can't Believe the AICPA's Chutzpah
On Tuesday we discussed the AICPA's effort to offer a new OCBOA for small businesses, making special note of the Financial Accounting Foundation's slightly irritated response. While the FAF was fine...
View ArticleFootnotes: Hot Assets; A New E&Y OMP in Motown; CIA as Off-books Tax...
Former PwC Partner Falls Victim To 'Hot Asset' Rules In Tax Court [Forbes]FASB Indefinitely Defers Certain Disclosures for Nonpublic Employee Benefit Plans [FASB]Law firm Brown Piven is investigating...
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Accounting News Roundup: KPMG's Ties at RBS; McGladrey Settles Florida Fraud...
Fears raised over close ties between RBS and top accountant KPMG [TI]Concerns rose last night over the close relationship between taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland and the accounting giant KPMG,...
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The Definitive Guide to a Successful Public Accounting Summer Internship
Hey, INTERN. Yes, you there wearing your hangover like a scarlet letter on this lovely Friday. Down your third gatorade and listen up. This is everything you need to know to not completely waste your...
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Welcome to Open Items, Let's Discuss Anything You Want
Okay, it's Friday afternoon and lots of you have checked out for the week. Hopefully this bit of news will help you across the finish line.Lots of you have screamed for forums on this site and you can...
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AICPA Knows NASBA Is Mad But It's Okay, NASBA Gets Mad Sometimes
The ongoing bickering over FRF for SMEs -- which went Defcon 4 the other day with a strongly worded press release from NASBA -- has just gone nuclear. I come from a single parent household so I don't...
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Footnotes: More on PwC MF Global Partner; REITrage; Tax Reform Summer Tour...
Francine McKenna wrote a follow-up post on PwC MF Global partner. [re:TheAuditors]Defining Real Estate Broadly to Avoid Corporate Taxes [DealBook]Spanish audit body to review Deloitte's role in Bankia...
View ArticleFootnotes: PCAOB's Latest Agenda; IRS Gets Friday Off; Use the 'Favor Test'...
We're off tomorrow and Friday, which means no Between the Spreadsheets. We'll pick up things on Monday. Keep all your digits attached.Veeco needs a Senior Internal Audit Manager in Plainview, NY....
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Accounting News Roundup: Koss Settles with Grant Thornton; Deloitte's Summer...
Koss settles claims against former auditor Grant Thornton [MJS]Koss Corp. collected $8.5 million from Grant Thornton, the accounting firm that audited Koss' books during a portion of the time that...
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Promotion Watch '13: BDO Admits 16 New Partners
For one reason or another, Bravo Delta Oscar announced their new partnership class late on Wednesday, so virtually everyone missed that news. Now that everyone has returned from their epic four day...
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Your Reward for Winning the Elijah Watt Sells Award Is Winning the Elijah...
Have a question for GC's exclusive team of underachievers? Get in touch and we'll do our best to do the research for you.From the mailbag:Is there any career benefit to not only passing the CPA exams,...
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It Took a Week for Jim Turley to Find Work
U.S. government parolee, Citigroup, announced today that it's expanding its board of directors to include Gary Reiner, a former CIO at GE, and Jim Turley, EY's beloved former DJ, fashion-forward...
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Tips for QuickBooks Online from Fellow CPAs
The following post is sponsored content from Intuit.As a CPA, you know how time consuming it can be for you and your clients when you have to request data files to prepare your clients' taxes. Bryce...
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Here's a Handy Infographic for Aspiring Forensic Accountants
Following the handy infographic for all kinds of aspiring number crunchers, New England College presents this handy infographic for aspiring forensic accountants:New England College Master of Science...
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Footnotes: The Most Interesting Man in the (Accounting) World; CPAs That Can...
Deutsche Bank needs a Principal Auditor in New York. Five to seven years experience with banking clients and a CPA are required. [GCJ]The most interesting man in accounting is Allan Koltin....
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Accounting News Roundup: SEC's Beef with Big 4 Stonewalling; House Passes...
U.S. SEC says audit firms hinder accounting fraud probes [Reuters]U.S. federal regulators tried to persuade a judge on Monday to sanction the Chinese arms of the world's top five accounting firms,...
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