Grant Thornton's Philadelphia Office Gives a Purple Rose to Former...
Where do you go in life after you've been eliminated from The Bachelorette? To Grant Thornton, natch.42-year-old Sean Denham has 20 years of public accounting experience and most recently served as...
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The Monthly Close: Nothing's Hotter Than Prostitution with Accurate Receipts
Sometimes the month just gets away from you. Luckily, we all worked hard to get this wrapped up so none of us had to work over a holiday weekend.Have a great Thanksgiving.
View ArticleInside Deeper Weekend and the Grassroots Movement to Transform the Accounting...
I had no idea what to expect at Thriveal’s 4th Annual Deeper Weekend other than ludicrously passionate accountants. It was held over two days in early November at a small gallery in West Greenville,...
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Accounting News Roundup: Real Estate Mogul Sues Grant Thornton for A LOT;...
Deloitte Said to Face Saudi Regulator’s Ban on Audit Work [Bloomberg]The operative words here are "said to": "Deloitte LLP may be blocked from auditing companies in Saudi Arabia after the country’s...
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Here's The Real Reason Mid-Tier Firms Are Merger Mad
As we know, BDO and McGladrey have both been on a very busy acquisition streak lately. BDO picked up one of Ohio's biggest firms with SS&G and then grabbed UHY's Texas practice. McGladrey,...
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This Timesheet-Addicted Managing Partner Will Make You Grateful Not to Work...
Like a gruesome car crash, we often enjoy swinging over to Above the Law to gawk at lawyers in a way that makes us all feel better about the accounting profession as a whole. And this letter from one...
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Ex-Enron CFO Sorry About Sarbanes-Oxley, Guys
Enron's former CFO was at the University of New Mexico last week speaking about, well, fraud and stuff because that's pretty much the only thing you can do when you're a well-known convicted felon who...
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Accounting News Roundup: BDO CEO Expects More Consolidation; An Accountant...
10 Investment Firms Sign On to IASB Feedback Program [CFOJ]Not a small feat since the Board has "always had difficulty" getting feedback, according to one board member.China Sunergy Announces Selection...
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How to Add a Nice Steaming Pile of Poo to Any Excel Spreadsheet
As the old saying goes, a picture is worth 1,000 words. There may just be instances where nothing else will do in a set of audit work papers than a steaming brown pile of excrement. This is easy to add...
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Study: Women Achieve Less Career Success Not For Lack of Leaning In
As any old white guy heading up a diversity and inclusion panel will tell you, women at the upper ranks of the accounting profession are in short supply. You don't need an old white guy to tell you...
View ArticlePwC Partner Was Not About to Let Some Petty Glassdoor Reviews Ruin His...
Like Yelp, reviews on Glassdoor can be either highly informative or terribly useless. No matter what is said, it's usually in the best interest of TPTB to ignore the negative reviews and move on,...
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Accounting News Roundup: Faster Audit Fee Disclosure; Wake Forest CPA...
Faster Disclosure of Audit Fee Increases Helps Investors Assess Company Trouble Earlier [AT]Nicole Thorne Jenkins of the University of Kentucky, Karl E. Hackenbrack of Vanderbilt University and Mikhail...
View ArticleEx-Crazy Eddie CFO's 10 Tips for Advancing Your Accounting Career
Generally speaking, you can't trust Sam Antar because he's a crook. But when it comes to advice on advancing your accounting career, you can trust these tips. Sam studied under Abe Brilloff at Baruch,...
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Sony Hack Also Leaked Deloitte Salaries, Reveals Gender Gap
We haven't reported on the Sony hack yet because it has absolutely nothing to do with public accounting. Until today.Fusion is reporting that among the leaked documents, hackers came across this little...
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Protip for Future CPAs: Forging Signatures on Your Work Experience Form is Dumb
So, we're combing through the latest California Board of Accountancy Update, checking out the usual CPAs behaving badly toward the end. It's nothing spectacular, just the usual sloppy audits,...
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Accounting News Roundup: Some Irony for Deloitte in Hack Attack; Mike Lynch...
Sony Pictures and F.B.I. Widen Inquiry Into Hackers’ Attack [NYT]Interesting little nugget here: "Four months ago, Deloitte sponsored an article in The Wall Street Journal about how companies can more...
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Those Who Know, Know BDO Got Their AS5 Kicked in Latest PCAOB Inspection Report
Another day, another PCAOB report. Today, our lucky victim is BDO USA, LLP.Of the 23 audits inspected, the PCAOB found deficiencies in 15 of them. For those of you playing along that home, that puts...
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Free CPE: Audit Correspondence--Practical Applications of Clarified Auditing...
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...
View Article#TBT: Former SEC Chairman Christopher Cox on The SEC's IFRS Roadmap
The great thing about speeches these days is that they generally live in perpetuity on the Internet, even if the speech-makers would hope that we have forgotten them. Oh, you wish.Today's Throwback...
View ArticleAccounting News Roundup: Economy Feel Good, People Feel Bad; PCAOB Taking...
U.S. Payrolls in November Grew 321,000; Jobless Rate 5.8% [WSJ]This sounds good: "Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 321,000 last month, the strongest month of hiring since January 2012, the...
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