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Deloitte's Next CEO Is a Woman, Let's All Give Them a Cookie
As we learned this morning, Deloitte is going all in on diversity and inclusion with the appointment of Cathy Engelbert as incoming CEO, effective March 11. This is, as we know, the first female CEO of...
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Auditors, Let's Talk About the Worst Audit Room You've Ever Seen
Earlier this week, someone posted an Open Item about eating in the audit room. But what about audit rooms in general? Let's face it: none of us look forward to working that closely together for an...
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92-Year-Old Accountant Shares His Secret to Surviving Busy Season
As you're slogging through yet another busy season, just keep in mind that it could be worse. You could be on your 70th busy season, like Sidney Weiss was up until he retired at the ripe old age of...
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Accounting News Roundup: More From Deloitte's New CEO; SEC Gives EY Partner a...
Deloitte's first female CEO: 'Don't stand still' [Fortune]Cathy Engelbert gave her first interview to Fortune and she talked about, what else, diversity and stuff: "What has Deloitte done to ensure an...
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The IRS Pimped Its Ride But Is Still Driving a Jalopy
When one senator asked how the agency could still be using such old systems when it spends over $2 billion a year on information technology operations, [IRS Commissioner John] Koskinen explained that...
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The Annual Close: The Year in Adverse Accounting Jokes
Just in case you missed an entire year of news (or rather, half a year since we only started this in August of last year), we've condensed the best of The Monthly Close into one short series of clips...
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There's Only One Good Reason to Work at Deloitte
If you are trying to pick between a choice of Big 4 offers, perhaps you're wondering what makes Deloitte any different from other Big 4 firms. Unfortunately, this infographic from Deloitte isn't going...
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The SEC Folded Like a Cheap Lawn Chair in Its Settlement With Big 4 Chinese...
As you know, the much-awaited SEC settlement with Big 4 China affiliates hit the pages on Friday. This particular dust-up came about over some workpapers the SEC has waiting on since the Ming Dynasty...
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Accounting News Roundup: McGladrey Shopping in Dixie; SEC Clawbacks; Ending...
McGladrey Expands in Alabama [AT]McG will acquire "substantially all of the assets" of Birmingham-based Sellers Richardson Holman & West.Jailhouse accountant gets more prison time for false tax...
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Busy Season Zen: The Can Opener Bridge
We're going to take a different approach to Busy Season Zen today, as it's getting to that point where cute ducklings and cuddly kittens may not be doing it for you.Perhaps you've seen this video...
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Interruptions at the Office: Good or Bad?
Are you one of those hyper-focused people who can concentrate on any given task and see it through to its completion? I am not. Never have been. I need to have fourteen things going at any given time...
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How Do You Like Your Feedback Served?
We've heard a lot about Millennials and their obnoxious need to receive constant feedback on their work but just how much of that is true? It seems pretty unlikely that a group of 80 million Americans...
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Accounting News Roundup: Auditors Lobbying on Accounting; Blaming Intuit for...
Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards [Working Knowledge/HBS]Some light academic reading on auditor lobbying. From the Executive Summary: "In a study of the role of major auditors in the accounting...
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Accounting News Roundup: Deloitte's New CEO; Why to Avoid PwC; Rand Paul's...
Only 20% are Middle-Class, Most Don't Come Close [The Economic Populist]Noah Smith closes his post with, "The middle-class is dead. There is no going back in our lifetimes. We need to find a new way of...
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Deloitte's Next CEO Is a Woman, Let's All Give Them a Cookie
As we learned this morning, Deloitte is going all in on diversity and inclusion with the appointment of Cathy Engelbert as incoming CEO, effective March 11. This is, as we know, the first female CEO of...
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Auditors, Let's Talk About the Worst Audit Room You've Ever Seen
Earlier this week, someone posted an Open Item about eating in the audit room. But what about audit rooms in general? Let's face it: none of us look forward to working that closely together for an...
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92-Year-Old Accountant Shares His Secret to Surviving Busy Season
As you're slogging through yet another busy season, just keep in mind that it could be worse. You could be on your 70th busy season, like Sidney Weiss was up until he retired at the ripe old age of...
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Accounting News Roundup: More From Deloitte's New CEO; SEC Gives EY Partner a...
Deloitte's first female CEO: 'Don't stand still' [Fortune]Cathy Engelbert gave her first interview to Fortune and she talked about, what else, diversity and stuff: "What has Deloitte done to ensure an...
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The IRS Pimped Its Ride But Is Still Driving a Jalopy
When one senator asked how the agency could still be using such old systems when it spends over $2 billion a year on information technology operations, [IRS Commissioner John] Koskinen explained that...
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The Annual Close: The Year in Adverse Accounting Jokes
Just in case you missed an entire year of news (or rather, half a year since we only started this in August of last year), we've condensed the best of The Monthly Close into one short series of clips...
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