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Free CPE: How To Develop Qualified Prospects For Your Practice
Event Date: August 20, 2014, 2:30 pm ETIn this session we'll review best practices for how to generate interest in your firm’s services. Topics include:Web Based Marketing StrategiesAppointment...
View ArticlePwC Is Trying to Get Some Color Up in This Mofo
A special program developed by employees at the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the nonprofit Diversity Awareness Partnership is teaching youngsters that careers in finance are not...
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#TBT: That Time Mustang Was Marketed to Harried Public Accountants
Should a harried Public Accountant drive a relaxed private fun car like Mustang?The California Board of Accountancy tells us the average yearly salary for a CPA in 1964 was $6,708.42. A 1966 Mustang,...
View ArticleThis Complete Idiot Cheated on the Open Book Ethics Exam, Ratted Self Out
So here's the deal. This guy Nathaniel Paredes was disciplined by the California Board of Accountancy, and we get to read all about it in the latest edition of the CBA Update. In case you aren't aware,...
View ArticleFootnotes: Xero's Future Plans; Bosses From Hell; EY Looks to Grow | 07.24.14
SEC Announces Additional Charges in Football-Related Boiler Room Scheme [SEC]Xero is eyeing a U.S. IPO [AT]Inside The Complicated Mess Of Discrimination And Diversity In HiringA spate of recent studies...
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Accounting News Roundup: KPMG's New Audit Clients; Earnings Management; Mark...
KPMG, Marcum Lead Pack in New Audit Clients for Q2 [AT]Small wins: "Interestingly, neither firm led the way in new market cap audited, new assets audited, or new audit fees. Ernst & Young topped...
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Grant Thornton to Employees: "Your Compensation Notice Is In the Mail"
We wondered why our premature Grant Thornton compensation thread was a tad crickety. Now we know.From our tipster:We just got a message from National HR regarding comp adjustments. It appears that all...
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Ex-Accounting Professor Invited Students Over to Party, Secretly Filmed Them...
This kind of reminds me of that very special Golden Girls episode where Blanche went to college to finish her degree and was propositioned by her professor to get some "extra credit." Even though she...
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(UPDATE) This EY Fade Haircut Is Just the Worst
A young man has just pledged his #loyaltEY to EY in a creative way. We aren't sure how else to explain it, really. I guess you just have to see the tweet....
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Crony Links: Screwing Up Delegation; Great Accountants; Discussing Pay
These links are brought to you by Dewey, Cheetum & Howe.Open Items Messed up on recruiting seasonAccountingWEB The 16 Ways to Screw Up DelegationAWEB Forums Qualities of a Great AccountantThe...
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We're Hoping EY Staff in NYC Went Home Before the Pro-Palestine Protest Started
The best part about this alert from the EY Security Director at 5 Times Square is that the protest was scheduled to start at 4:30 PM and the email went out at 3:21 PM. Hope you folks prepared in...
View ArticleFootnotes: Hashtag Fraud Hashtag Scam; Gene Simmons Is No Tax Expert;...
Ed. note: I dunno about you guys but I couldn't be happier this week is over. Thanks for helping out with some good tips this week, meet you right back here first thing Monday morning! Holla if you...
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Accounting News Roundup: Inversion with a Spin; Performance Ratings Death...
Obama Could Invoke An Old Law To Stop Companies From Leaving America To Save On Taxes [Reuters]I'm sure no one would notice: "President Barack Obama could act without congressional approval to limit a...
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If You Aren't Getting the Work-Life Balance You Want, Maybe You Should Sue
This Fortune piece is probably just one big troll but if not, this could be a reality at an accounting firm near you:A slew of gender discrimination lawsuits coming out of big banks point to something...
View ArticleClarifying Sex and Auditor Independence After the EY and Ventas Affair
With all that went down with Ventas and EY1, I needed a little clarification on our independence rules, so I took the initiative to send the following email to the AICPA:Dear AICPA Ethics Hotline,I...
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Help This Big 4 Alum-Turned-PhD-Candidate with Her Homework (By Taking a Survey)
Recently, a PhD candidate contacted us about helping with her dissertation. That sounds strange since neither Adrienne nor I have any interest in working more than we do already and this sounded like...
View ArticleKPMG Scores a Major Victory in the War Against Overtime
This just in, your dreams of collecting overtime for all your hard work have been summarily crushed in appeals court.We've been following Pippins v. KPMG for quite some time, as its outcome could have...
View ArticleFootnotes: Confidence Not So Confident; The XBRL Robocop; CPA Grandpa Blocks...
Report: Finance and accounting employee confidence drops [Charlotte Business Journal]Here's what happens when your grandpa is a tax accountant and the state erroneously sends you a tax refund [Contra...
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Accounting News Roundup: Inversion Winners; Meet Some SEC Whistleblowers;...
Banks Cash In on Mergers Intended to Elude Taxes [DealBook]Someone's got to: "Investment banks are estimated to have collected, or will soon collect, nearly $1 billion in fees over the last three years...
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In the Interest of Security and Penny-Pinching, CliftonLarsenAllen Will No...
Wait a minute, why the hell were clients sending their credit card numbers via email in the first place?!Our tipster shares a recent email from the higher ups:Hello All,Gordy Viere, Denny Schleper,...
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