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Your Open Office May Be Making You a Crappy Worker
Take your earbuds out for a minute and pay attention, kids. Show of hands, how many of you work in an open office environment? Now, how many of you are distracted by your coworkers' conversations,...
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Accounting News Roundup: Pile On PwC; Productive Procrastination; The...
U.S. Audit Regulator Scrutinizing PwC Over Caterpillar Tax Advice [WSJ]Michigan Senator Carl Levin rattled some cages: "In April, Sen. Levin sent a letter to the PCAOB requesting that it 'conduct a...
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McGladrey Getting in on the M&A Action With Cole + Reed Acquisition
McGladrey LLP, the nation's leading provider of assurance, tax and consulting services focused on the middle market, announced today the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all...
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NASBA Is Shutting You Out From Their Website Ahead of CPA Exam Score Releases...
NASBA's attempt to keep anxious CPA exam candidates from blowing up their website ahead of a score release must have gone swimmingly last score release, as they are planning to do it again for the next...
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KPMG Gives the Department of Homeland Security a Clean Audit Opinion Because...
Now, we won't go so far as to imply that KPMG auditors preferred not to end up on the Do Not Fly List (might make their job a bit tough were that to happen), but we will say does anyone want to be the...
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Accounting News Roundup: Recruiting the Recruiters; SEC Actually Accomplishes...
How to Find Recruiters in Your Niche [WSJ]You need a how to for this? Put "accounting" on your LinkedIn and they shall find you.Stock Exchange Technology Rules Get First SEC Upgrade Since 1990...
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Let's Speculate Wildly as to Why the PCAOB Delayed Its Budget Meeting
So, this happened:The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board today announced that it is postponing consideration of its budget for the 2015 fiscal year and the related strategic plan. The Open...
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And the Award for Most Innovative Audit Goes To...
The Investment Management Association (UK) recently held its inaugural Auditor Reporting awards and you'll be happy to hear three of the Big 4 were recognized for excellence in audit (I know you want...
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Accounting News Roundup: KPMG and McLaren; Showing Respect for Employees; A...
KPMG laps up McLaren’s F1-style analytics [FT]This is real future of auditing stuff: "Through the alliance, KPMG will be able to introduce an audit model that is forward looking and predictive, based...
View ArticleAnother Rothstein Kass Refugee Has Fled the Land of KPMG
It's been a bit since we've covered the comings and goings of Rothstein Kass refugees making their way in the post-KPMG acquisition world. Some of them have broken off and formed their own offices....
View ArticleIf You Want to Start Your Own Practice, You'll Want to Get on This Boat
Last week Thriveal’s Deeper Weekend was held in South Carolina.The event is hosted by Jason Blumer and his Thriveal crew. The conference is for CPAs to get together and talk about their feelings, act...
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Don't Eat Hours, You Idiots
With yet another busy season approaching, it's time to open Pandora's Box yet again and talk about how you're billing your time. Specifically, how you're not billing your time.Like sleeping with...
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Accounting News Roundup: Deloitte's Internal Startups; Bragging About Audited...
Islamic finance body AAOIFI to discuss global accounting standards [Reuters]I'm sure this will cause some fretting over adoption of "Sharia GAAP."Deloitte offers its staff the chance to be the boss of...
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PwC Gives Up a $7 Million Audit Over a $105k Independence Conflict
Remember, kids, to check your independence at the door:Logitech International (LOGI) (SIX: LOGN) (Nasdaq: LOGI) today announced a delay in the filing of its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the...
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You're Not Really as Busy as You Claim
Back in my CPA review days, freaked out candidates would call me up and ask me how to make time to study for the exam. I mean, with jobs and lives and possibly spouses and/or needy children to worry...
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Accounting News Roundup: Africa's Accounting; Lots of Bad Managers; Stop...
Africa Makes Strides in Corporate Accounting, Governance [CFOJ]Blasphemy! "Just because they don’t have the best accounting records doesn’t mean they don’t have a good business."70% of managers...
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BDO Fixin' to Acquire UHY Texas
Following up its purchase of Ohio's SS&G, BDO announced today that it had reached agreement with UHY Advisors to execute....err...acquire its Texas Practice:The UHY Texas practice provides a broad...
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PCAOB Says Audit Failures Are No Longer Audit Failures
So, today, this happened:Hanson says the PCAOB has moved away from using the phrase "audit failures" in the boilerplate parts of its inspection reports. #FEICFRI14— Accounting Today (@AccountingToday)...
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Your Open Office May Be Making You a Crappy Worker
Take your earbuds out for a minute and pay attention, kids. Show of hands, how many of you work in an open office environment? Now, how many of you are distracted by your coworkers' conversations,...
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Accounting News Roundup: Pile On PwC; Productive Procrastination; The...
U.S. Audit Regulator Scrutinizing PwC Over Caterpillar Tax Advice [WSJ]Michigan Senator Carl Levin rattled some cages: "In April, Sen. Levin sent a letter to the PCAOB requesting that it 'conduct a...
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