Clik here to view.
It's Difficult to Pinpoint Exactly Why Life Partners Fired Their CFO After He...
Life Partners Holdings hired Scott Dubs as its CFO on August 20, 2012. Life Partners Holdings fired Scott Dubs on August 31, 2012. That length of tenure is so short that Dubs probably didn't have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Deloitte Trainee Busted Faking Doctor Notes To Explain His Failed Exams
What do you do when you are feeling the pressure to pass your professional exams but just can't seem to get over the hump? If you're this guy from Deloitte UK, you forge doctor notes to buy yourself...
View ArticleClik here to view.
PwC Employee More Upset By Aura 4 Than He Was When Facebook Switched to Timeline
The Tip Box that you see at the right and top of the page has been a moderate success. Thanks to its simplicity, even the most dense of you can send us information that could prove useful for a story...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Footnotes: Once Upon a Time, Paul Ryan's Ex-Girlfriend Stole From Ernst &...
PwC to investigate computer meltdown at RBS [Telegraph] Paul Ryan's Ex-GF Served Prison Time For Wire Fraud Deneeta D. Pope -- who made headlines recently as Ryan's African-American GF in college --...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Accounting News Roundup: Romney Missing Out on PE Tax Controversy; Sticking...
How Romney Avoided Controversial Tax Practice [WW/WSJ]Mitt Romney appears to have dodged a bullet after his lawyer said last week that the GOP candidate never engaged in a tax practice that’s now being...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Get Your CGMA Designation Before the Turd Gets Cold
I refuse to become a CGMA. If you are a CGMA, I will pretend to not judge you if we meet in person. But I will be judging you in my heart. The Chartered Global Management Accountant designation has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Grant Thornton Audit Partner Can Barely Keep From Laughing at PwC's Claim...
For some time now, second-tier audit firms in the UK have been bent out of shape about the domination of the Big 4. And seeing how one of the Final Four Horsemen of the accounting apocalypse is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Did Someone Really Steal Mitt Romney's Tax Returns From PwC's Franklin,...
By now you've probably heard that an anonymous group - no, likely not The Anonymous - is claiming they got into PwC's Franklin, Tennessee office and nabbed Romney's tax returns, which they will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Footnotes: Working the Pole for Tax-Exempt Status; Grant Thornton Dodges Last...
NY Court to Decide if Lap Dance Is Tax-Exempt Art [AP] Obama Is Wrong On Romney Tax Plan Impact [Bloomberg] Peregrine trustee asks permission to hire PriceWaterhouseCoopers [DMR] Refco Trustee...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Deloitte Campus Recruits to Imagine Olympians Naked While Listening to Their...
Yes, Deloitte is counting on college students being impressed with stories of determination, hope, competition, blah blah blah while gawking at the Olympic quality bods of Abby Wambach, Cullen Jones,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Accounting News Roundup: Bitcoins Still Up for Grabs; Deloitte Sending Some...
Romney tax return claim made in package left at Williamson GOP office [Tennessean]The author of the online letter also states copies of Romney’s tax returns were left with the county Republican and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Let's Compare the Big Four Accounting Firms to the Four Houses in Harry Potter
Career conundrum got you down? Want someone to tell you how to spend your bonus? Need gift ideas for your secret workplace lover? Email us the questions that burn deep in your loins. Do you think that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Let's All Freak Out at Once About the Possibility of CPA Exam Scores Being...
Today's CPA exam freak out comes courtesy the tip box. Just a reminder to those wanting to freak out via said tip box, please include an email address so we can write you back for more details - in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Latest CFO Survey Results Reveal a Whole Lot of Information That Will Make...
Take it away, Robert Half! In the latest survey, 5% of executives said they plan to add personnel and 6% said they expect job cuts in accounting and finance. In other words, everyone's just sitting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Some Guy Wandered Around the PwC Office Where Mitt Romney's Tax Returns Were...
Yesterday, we learned that some hackers/burglars allegedly broke into PwC's Franklin, Tennessee office and copied all of Mitt Romney's tax returns that they could get their hands on. They now say that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Footnotes: PwC's Charity Work for ResCap, A Morbid Proposal, Trusting Your...
Chart of the day, party neighborhood edition [Felix Salmon] ResCap Says PWC Review Could Cost $250 Million, Up From $180 Million Since retaining PwC in May 2011, ResCap has paid the company $51.7...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Accounting News Roundup: Jobs Disappointment; Romney Tax Return Caper Is...
Economy Adds Fewer Jobs Than Expected [WSJ]U.S. job growth slowed in August, a sign of a slack recovery that could mute any postconvention momentum for President Barack Obama and spur the Federal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Layoffs Watch '12: KPMG Cuts Have Some People Spooked
Last month we learned that KPMG's UK operation announced its "regrettable" plans to tell 300 of its people to hit the bricks. While there hasn't been any other Big 4 firms in the Queendom, the news out...
View ArticleClik here to view.
David Cay Johnston Sticks Up for Tax Nerds Being Picked on By the Romney...
The Romney campaign isn't crazy about the Tax Policy Center's critique of their tax plan presumably because it casts a bit of an unflattering light on it (i.e. isn't mathematically possible, leaves out...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Footnotes: Facebook Blamestorming; The Influentials; Grover Owned Tampa |...
Facebook Investors Know Exactly Whom to Blame [Bloomberg] Top 100 Influential People [AT] In Retrospect, CNBC Thinks Investing With Bernie Madoff Wasn’t Such A Bad Idea [DB] Reading the Tax Reform Tea...
View Article