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Accounting News Roundup: A Greek Accounting Tragedy; Keep Your Best...
Greece’s Accounting Problem [NYT]USC Professor Jacob Soll outlines the country's lack of ability to keep its numbers straight.Billy Moore named CFO of Grant Thornton [GT]He succeeds Russ Weiman on...
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Reminder: Worst Tax Season Ever Starts Today
For months, we've been hearing how bad tax season will be this year. Not just for you poor tax people, but for -- gasp -- taxpayers, even.See our post in November of last year:The Internal Revenue...
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Let's All Welcome PwC's Bob Moritz to Twitter!
Guess what? Just in time for Davos, BoMo is on Twitter.His bio states:Chairman & Senior Partner @PwC_LLP. Native NY'er, proud father of two, sometimes motorcycle rider & drummer. Views are my...
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Accounting News Roundup: SEC's Probes; Grant Thornton's Billions; New York's...
SEC Gets Busy With Accounting Investigations [WSJ]The agency filed 99 accounting-fraud enforcement actions for the fiscal year end of Sept. 30. That's up from 68 in the previous year.Grant Thornton...
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KPMG Concerned Employees Can't Resist Banging One Another
According to a tipster, KPMG distributed this the other day, because apparently sleeping with your coworkers is a serious problem over there.Wasn't EY the Big 4 firm with the audit partner screwing the...
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EY Takes Work-Life Balance Into New, Confounding Direction
Alert the media and release the hounds, EY is hot on the trail of a new approach to work/life balance:We have shifted the focus at EY from effective work/life balance to effective work/life integration...
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Busy Season Zen: Ducklings Playing in a Small Pool
With tax season officially upon us, you're going to need this now more than ever.Relax, hit play, and enjoy. Repeat as needed.
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Let's Not Rush to Judgment Just Because a Guy Blew Off a Meeting About...
A man who spent his entire 32-year-career in the accounting department of Frisch's Restaurants -- purveyors of the iconic Big Boy -- has been accused of stealing $3.3 million from the company, which he...
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Accounting News Roundup: Accountants Fighting Climate Change; A New Starter...
Accountants can help fight climate change [Economia]The Head of Sales for Siemens Financial Services believes in you! "Using core analytical and risk management skills, accountants can help...
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Here Are Just a Few Questions You'll Be Asked in a Big 4 Interview
Our friends over at Vault are still working on their massive survey of accounting professionals and if you haven't yet gotten on that bandwagon, please do so here. It helps them help you, or something....
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AICPA's Concern Over a Building Gap in CPA Exam Candidates Totally Immaterial
Yesterday, Colin stuck the following story in ANR. We're going to go ahead and give it its own spot because this is something worth discussing:The number of New Yorkers obtaining their Certified Public...
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#TBT: Convergence of International Accounting Standards Before Convergence...
If you are one of the lucky few who has taken the CPA exam since IFRS was added into the mix, you may be surprised to know we've actually been at this whole convergence thing for some time. Except it...
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Accounting News Roundup: KPMG's New Atlanta Boss; No One Wants Simpler...
Americans' Satisfaction With Federal Taxes on Low Side [Gallup]This required a survey? "Americans' satisfaction with the amount that Americans pay in federal income taxes roughly ties the lowest...
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AICPA Courting Beliebers Now
The world needs #CPAs even more than it needs @justinbieber. See why we're needed oh so badly: http://t.co/7ckJj1gYol— ThisWayToCPA (@ThisWayToCPA) January 23, 2015Fishing for RTs from Justin Bieber?...
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Ladies, You Have Another Week to Lean In to This KPMG Gender Discrimination...
The window to join the KPMG gender discrimination class action suit hasn't yet closed, but today we've learned 1,000 women have joined so far. Here's the update from Katherine Kimpel of Sanford Heisler...
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Use Excel to Keep an Eye on Your BMI This Busy Season
Let’s assume that you’ve bought into the quantified-self craze. Your wearable technology measures every breath you take and every move you make, so now it's time for new frontiers, as in something...
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The Public Accountant's Definitive Guide to Disclosure of Past Convictions
It seems like every other day, another felon is on Reddit asking if they should disclose their criminal history to an accounting firm. We've beaten this particular horse to death so bad around these...
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Friday Footnotes: Old White Guy Crashes Strong Woman Party; Are You Intuit?;...
IRS Watchdog: Elderly and Disabled Taxpayers Not Allowed to Leave Messages Serves 'em right for trying to leave voicemails. [Americans for Tax Reform]What will we do in a world without SkyMall? Well,...
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Let's All Welcome PwC's Bob Moritz to Twitter!
Guess what? Just in time for Davos, BoMo is on Twitter.His bio states:Chairman & Senior Partner @PwC_LLP. Native NY'er, proud father of two, sometimes motorcycle rider & drummer. Views are my...
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Accounting News Roundup: SEC's Probes; Grant Thornton's Billions; New York's...
SEC Gets Busy With Accounting Investigations [WSJ]The agency filed 99 accounting-fraud enforcement actions for the fiscal year end of Sept. 30. That's up from 68 in the previous year.Grant Thornton...
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