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Volkswagen CFO Is in the Hot Seat [CFOJ]
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Toshiba Adds $3.3 Billion Credit Line After Accounting Probe [Bloomberg]
View ArticleHere's Your Open Thread for KPMG Compensation Discussions (2015)
It's New Year's Eve in the KPMG universe today and we have a flood of tips telling us that the firm started compensation discussions in earnest on Monday.Here's a sample:
View ArticleAccounting Had a Toxic Culture Before It Was Cool
In February 2013, one unfortunate former Big 4 intern asked his manager for Saturday morning off to rotate his tires.
View ArticleGrant Thornton Should Pay Its People to Take Vacation
Grant Thornton is getting into the surprisingly generous benefits act, announcing that it will offer its employees unlimited time off starting in November.They even shot this video of their people's...
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CEOs Ask Congress to Put Materiality Back Into Securities Laws [CF
View ArticleIs Technology Making Accountants Dumb and Lazy?
For those of you that have been following me online for a while, you’ll probably know one of the early experiments I ran at Accodex was, “How do I build a firm where I can get a 19-year-
View ArticleAccountingfly Featured Job of the Week: Tax Supervisor With Warren Averett CPAs
Accountingfly's featured job this week is for a Tax Supervisor position with Warren Averett CPAs & Advisors in Tampa, Florida.
View ArticleAccounting News Roundup: The PCAOB Shares Its Playbook and an Honest Auditor...
PCAOB Refocuses Audit Firm Inspections [AT,
View ArticleNot-So-Fine Opining: High School Auditors, Grant Thornton's Independence...
This week we have three (!) stories to share of auditors behaving badly.
View ArticleFriday Footnotes: Punny Businesses; Enticing Frauds; Clinton Tax Plan or...
Always read the footnotes, capital market servants. Drop us tips and links over the weekend by hitting the button at the top of the page or emailing us directly.
View ArticleAccounting News Roundup: Overrated Values; A Tradition of Busy Work; VW...
Hands up if you can say what your company’s values are [FT via
View ArticleLinkedIn Has to Pay for Sending All Those Annoying Emails
LinkedIn's Add Connections service sent a bunch of unwanted emails without people's consent and now they have to pay $13 million to settle a lawsuit.
View ArticleOh Great, Public Accounting Discovered the Selfie Stick
The New York Timesreported the arrival of the selfie stick in January of 2015.
View ArticleAccounting News Roundup: PwC Jumps Deloitte; Be Better Than Everyone at...
PwC tops Deloitte to lead Big Four auditors [FT]
View ArticleDo PwC Employees Really Like the New Student Loan Perk?
In its quest to recruit all the Millennials, PwC recently announced that it will pay $100 a month on its staff's student loans for up to 6 years.
View ArticleGrant Thornton's Revenue Didn't Take Time Off
The Purple Rose of Chicago earned $1.45 billion in the U.S., beating last year's haul o
View ArticleAccounting News Roundup: KPMG Changing the World; Apple's Tax Avoidance;...
Ed. note: I'm taking some time off, capital market servants. In my absence, you'll get content from Greg, Leona and Chris Hooper.
View ArticleGrant Thornton Demonstrates Its Instinct for Diversity in Its Paid Time-Off...
Grant Thornton’s video announcing their unlimited paid time off policy was exceptional cinema.
View ArticleAccounting News Roundup: Behind Grant Thornton's Unlimited PTO; PwC's...
Reminder: While our editor is away, discuss these articles and submit those we've missed, along with questions to Open Items to keep yourselves entertained.
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