This Sentence Is Everything Wrong With the Way We Think About Professional Women
The Project 28-40 report is a study of 25,000 people (23,000 of those women) by Opportunity Now and PwC that looks at the obstacles facing professional women in the UK.The report itself is nothing...
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Free CPE: FRF for SMEs Series—Statement of Operations, Part 1
View the WebinarFollow this link to register or access the recording. After this seminar has passed, the recording will still be available.CPE CREDIT WILL BE AVAILABLE TO LIVE ATTENDEES ONLY.Event...
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Companies Pay More to Keep Finance Executives [CFOJ]This Map Shows You The Fastest Way to Get Anywhere In Your City [Gizmodo]D-Day: Hove veteran disappears for Normandy trip Hundreds of veterans marked...
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A Risk-Taker’s Game: Insider Trading [DealBook]I wonder if Phil Mickelson knows the over/under on KPMG's PCAOB failure rate: "Mr. Mickelson has been dogged for years by speculation about whether his...
View ArticleFormer SEC Chair Chris Cox Goes From Cheerleading IFRS Adoption to Burying It
Before we talk about Chris Cox's recent comments on adoption of international standards in the U.S., allow us to look back. After all, you will recall Cox was the one pushing for them years ago when he...
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Here's Your Open Thread for the Third CPA Exam Score Release of Q2
And look at that, right on time!.@AICPA has released the following #CPAExam scores for the April/May testing window: 7065 AUD, 4537 BEC, 5890 FAR and 6585 REG.— NASBA (@NASBA) June 9, 2014 As always,...
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Use AutoRecover in Excel to Save Your Spreadsheet From Yourself
Ed. note: this is second in an ongoing series to help you make the most out of Excel setting-by-setting. If you have a specific Excel demon to slay, you can get in touch for our resident white knight...
View ArticleThe SEC Is On An Insider Trading Losing Streak
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in a third insider-trading trial defeat in the past year, lost its lawsuit claiming STEC Inc.’s former chief executive officer made $134 million by selling...
View ArticleFootnotes: Pleasing the PCAOB; Deloitte UK Adds a Couple Partners; Freaking...
A British accountant who took a trip to Sri Lanka to climb Mount Everest is now stuck there [Telegraph]Congratulations to the 65 new partners out of Deloitte UK [economia]Yes, you can manipulate the...
View ArticleAccounting News Roundup: IFRS Optimism; Underwater Property Taxes; Slack Off...
Deloitte UK expands partner promotions [FT]ICYMI from last night's Footnotes: Of the 65 new UK partners, 60% are in consulting and advisory services.UK watchdog expects progress on global accounting...
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What Does McGladrey's Joe Adams Have in Common With the Aflac Duck and NKOTB?
Joe Adams has a date at NASDAQ this afternoon:In conjunction with the upcoming "Trends in Business Development Companies" (BDC) conference on Tues., June 10, McGladrey LLP, the leading U.S. provider of...
View ArticleEx-BDO Vice Chairman Given 16 Months to Think About His Choices
Let this be a lesson to anyone considering joining up with a "rogue group" of tax-sheltering jerks at your firm, you've been warned:Former BDO Seidman LLP Vice Chairman Charles Bee’s cooperation with...
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Free CPE: High Impact Excel: iPad Edition
Event Date: June 26, 2014, 2 pm ET In this presentation Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA covers Excel for iPad from top to bottom. In one hour you'll learn everything you can—and cannot—do in Excel...
View ArticlePCAOB Adopts Auditing Standard No. 18: Crony Disclosures
Let us welcome into the world a new auditing standard:The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board today adopted a new auditing standard and amendments to other auditing standards to strengthen...
View ArticleThe IRS Quietly Tweaked Your Rights as a Taxpayer
You may have noticed some buzz about the recently released Taxpayer Bill of Rights, a list so basic it's a wonder it has to exist at all. But this is the IRS we're talking about so probably better we...
View ArticleFootnotes: Don't Hate Your Job; Do You Look Diverse Enough?; To the Moon! |...
Did you know you don't have to hate your job? [DealBook]Does Race or Gender Matter More to Your Paycheck? [HBR]A Connecticut accountant is accused of stealing more than $170,000 from the library she...
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Accounting News Roundup: E.U. Investigating Fancy International Tax Planning;...
Bank of America Mortgage Settlement Is Said to Be Deadlocked [DealBook]The DoJ was not amused by BoA's most recent offer: "The talks stalled on Monday after the bank’s latest offer — more than $12...
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BDO Gets SALTy with Latest Acquisition
BDO today announced an expansion of its state and local tax practice (SALT) through the addition of 1 partner and 10 employees formerly with HoganTaylor, LLP. Tom Smith, who will be joining BDO as a...
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FASB Tries to Simplify GAAP, One Item at a Time
You will note that a bound copy of GAAP comes in at 7,692 pages (as of 2011). By comparison, the Guinness Book of World Records'thickest book published -- Agatha Christie's Miss Marple stories -- comes...
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Ex-Employee Chronicles Grant Thornton's Gutting of CCR After Acquisition
A few Accounting News Roundups ago, Colin linked to a story about Grant Thornton's new tax hub in Bangalore.In that article, GT CEO Stephen Chipman enthusiastically declared his own tax return is...
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