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Accounting News Roundup: You Work Fewer Hours Than You Think; Grant...
The Truth About How Much Workaholics Actually Work [FC]That is, less than they think: "People who get paid by the hour know how many hours they work. People who inhabit the world of exempt jobs have a...
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Bro Leaving Deloitte For KPMG; Fellow Bros' Reactions Mixed
When the time comes to leave your firm for industry or -- gasp! -- another firm, you could write some lame farewell email or you could have your bros write a touching farewell on Medium. Apparently,...
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Is KPMG Secretly Worried About This Phil Mickelson Insider Trading Situation?
There is an interesting article in BloombergBusinessweek today about some of Phil Mickelson's sponsors turning their backs on him due to Phil's insider trading probe.As we already know, KPMG has...
View ArticleDeloitte Prepares for IMPACT Day by Making an Impact on Talking About IMPACT Day
Oh, IMPACT Day. A 15 year tradition that puts Green Dotters in matching t-shirts and unleashes them upon their communities to "give back." From serving meals to the hungry to providing murals to...
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This Accounting Firm Hopes Its Marketing Campaign Will Change the Way You...
When it comes to accounting firm marketing, even the biggest of the big firms can flop (we need not speak of EY's rebranding in the context of a Safe Search off Google Image search but we will, again,...
View ArticleLayoff Watch '14: ParenteBeard Canned 22 People Last Monday
ParenteBeard, the largest accounting firm based in Philadelphia with nearly 1,000 partners and staff in 19 offices in Pa., N.J., and N.Y., laid off 22 employees on June 2, including 6 from its...
View ArticleFootnotes: Pass the Fried Chicken; NQ Mobile Has a Good Day; PCAOB Mulling...
Billy Walters: No wrongdoing with Phil Mickelson, Icahn"I can tell you one thing, there ain't going to be anything to come out of this other than someone spending a lot of time and a lot of money,"...
View ArticleAccounting News Roundup: Tax Policy Can Wait; SEC Turning 80; Deloitte KC's...
European Central Bank Takes a Radical Step [NYT]Negative interest rates? Hey, what not? "The European Central Bank cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low on Thursday and, in an unprecedented...
View ArticleSteve Kass Insists He Meant It When He Said Rothstein Kass Wasn't For Sale
When we first started hearing rumors of a Rothstein Kass KPMG merger in February, one of the items we were sent along with tips that an acquisition would be forthcoming was a letter from RK CEO Steve...
View ArticleAccounting is the Best Profession for Women According to Women
Interesting info from economia -- which is sort of like the Journal of Accountancy for our friends across the pond -- that says accounting tops professions for women in the UK:Our research found that...
View ArticlePromotion Watch '14: EY Americas Admits 295 New Partners
Not to be outdone by PwC's addition of 180 partners the other day, EY has internally announced the admission of 295 new partners, 170 new executive directors and 31 new directors. Dang, son, slow it...
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Free CPE: Networking and Connecting with Your Profession
Event Date: June 24, 2014, 2 pm ETIn this final session of a four-part series on Individual Leadership, we will look at networking and discover a more empowering way to relate to it: connection....
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#TBT: We Dug Up One Big 4 CEO's Graduation Photo
Let's see which Big 4 CEO we have here...Clearly we are referring to the man on the right and not the woman on the left because LOL a woman CEO of a Big 4 accounting firm yeah right!So, who could this...
View ArticleNot Auditing Is Twice as Effective as Auditing at Catching Fraud
Today, we have an interesting ACFE report that not looking for fraud is more than twice as effective as external audits at detecting internal fraud. From CFO.com:In the recent past, the Association of...
View ArticleFootnotes: Outlook Good; KPMG Broker Gets Raided; Dancing Hamster Fraud |...
This Biglaw Summer Associate just told his firm to take this job and shove(l) it Cry baby says: "Sure it’s selfish and naïve to think I should not be judged, but I simply cannot be perfect for everyone...
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Accounting News Roundup: Billionaire Tax Problems; EY CEO Parties It Up;...
BofA in Talks to Pay At Least $12 Billion to Settle Probes [WSJ]The DOJ would to double the Federal Housing Financing Authority's fine from last year: "Bank of America Corp. is in talks to pay at least...
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EY Now Tracking Staff's Every Move
As anyone who considers break room snacks a food group knows, it's incredibly easy to put on a few pounds from sitting at your desk for most of your working life. EY has a solution -- toys to encourage...
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Crony Links: How to Create Excel's Equivalent to MAXIF; Fear of Phones; Women...
Link even though no one is reading, link even though you've never been linked to, link even though no one clicks, link even though the Internet is filled with mindless crap.Open ItemsDoes This Count As...
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PSA: How to Reach Out and Touch the Going Concern Team
Hello and Happy Friday, GC faithful. We are interrupting your regularly scheduled programming with an important message.Maybe it's because we monkeyed with the tip box graphic awhile back or maybe it's...
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Public Accounting Firms, Ranked by CEO Hotness
*ranked from the Accounting Today Top 100#10: BDOWayne Berson has done wonderful things for BDO but I definitely wouldn't do wonderful thingsto him. Nope. Sorry Wayne but... just no. The good news is...
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