Footnotes: Quit Procrastinating Tomorrow; Talking Trash About Your Boss...
How to Stop Procrastinating at Work "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise as they go flying by." [Vault]You Can Now Talk Shit About Your Boss Online, Kinda [Jezebel]H-P Wasn’t Going To Let A...
View ArticleAccounting News Roundup: Yahoo, Dell Like a Dutch Sandwich; Fewer New CEOs...
Yahoo, Dell Swell Netherlands’ $13 Trillion Tax Haven [Bloomberg]Inside Reindert Dooves’ home, a 17th century, three-story converted warehouse along the Zaan canal in suburban Amsterdam, a 21st-century...
View ArticleClearly, Tax Season Would Be Better If It Just Had More Cowbell
Busy season is not fun. If you pretend it's fun or if you expect me to pretend it's fun, you're an ass. Now, I get it. Taxes are a big part of the reason I have a job, and I'm glad to have a job. So in...
View ArticleBig 4 Firms Doing Their Part to Keep the World Economic Forum a Giant Sausage...
In case you weren't aware, the World Economic Forum is an annual ego-strokefest held in Davos, Switzerland. It brings together the leaders of business and a whole scrum of other people who are willing...
View ArticleThis CPA Exam Candidate Apparently Does Not Want To Be a Millionaire
24-year-old Virginia Tech MBA student Matthew Dolan got slightly more distracted than most CPA exam candidates while studying last summer. While watching "Who Wants to be a Millionaire," he saw the...
View ArticlePassing the CPA Exam While Billing Over 2500 Hours in a Year Is Way Harder...
This may just be one of the greatest rants to come from /r/offmychest/ ever.Here's the deal. This chick is pregnant. And she's sick of everyone telling her what a miracle it is. You know what's a...
View ArticleFootnotes: Seniors Wanted; A Deloitte Win; Stuff Creepy Accountants Like |...
U.S. Budget Discord Is Top Threat to Global Economy in Poll [Bloomberg]Senior accounting positions hard to fill [CPA Practice Advisor]Accounting Problems Still Plague U.S. Government: GAO [The Fiscal...
View ArticleAccounting News Roundup: Red Flags in CAT Fraud; Your New SEC Chair; We...
Red flags revealed in filings of firm linked to Caterpillar fraud [Reuters]A Chinese mining equipment company at the centre of an alleged accounting fraud was also involved in a web of insider loans...
View ArticlePwC Partners Aren't Sick of Bob Moritz
They actually like him quite a bit, it seems. You see, while BoMo bros out in Davos, the firm has announced that he has been re-elected as Chairman and Senior Partner of the U.S. firm.He'll get another...
View ArticleBDO Associate Eager for Work Picks Up Assignments, In 'N' Out Delivery...
Undoubtedly, many of the seasoned public accounting hacks out there have received some variation of the following email:From: [Bored L.A. Assurance Associate]Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:36...
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Let's Discuss: 2012 CPA Exam Pass Rates
We don't really have any theories behind the enormous improvement in CPA exam scores for 2012; maybe it's something in the water, maybe it's that the exam is getting easier like all the old school...
View ArticleFootnotes: Moss Adams' PCAOB Inspection Report; Is the End Nigh for State...
Mary Jo White and the SEC: The right woman at the wrong time [FORTUNE]David Cay Johnston fact-checks the Wall Street Journal on corporate cash parked offshore. [Tax Analysts]Minnesota Governor Mark...
View ArticleANR: Deloitte, E&Y Tied Up in This Cat Thing; IRS to Lockheed in Court: "This...
Auditors named in Caterpillar-ERA debacle [FT]Two of the world’s top accounting firms helped conduct due diligence last year for Caterpillar’s $886m acquisition of ERA, the Chinese mining equipment...
View ArticleICYMI: Here's a Hitler Video That Might Help Your Company Decide If It Should...
The Hitler video meme died long ago, but I regret missing this jump the shark moment from 2010 when "Hitler Finds Out the Board is Keeping Internal Audit In-House." Mostly because I try to deliver...
View ArticleKPMG Finds That If You Count Twitter, the World Economic Forum Isn’t Such a...
Earlier this week, we made mention of the Big 4's precise efforts to meet expectations re: bringing women to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. As "Strategic Partners" of the WEF, the...
View ArticleFootnotes: Another Accounting Firm Sued for Bank Audit; Workin' or...
A couple of hedge fund managers shouted at each other on CNBC today. [BI]SEC’s new Wall Street enabler [Salon via Sam Antar]U.S. Century Bank shareholders sue accounting firm MBAF That's Morrison,...
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Accounting News Roundup: Barry Salzberg's Alter Ego; Caterpillar Still...
Interview: Deloitte deputy chief executive Brian Derksen [FT]It was in Durham, North Carolina, that Derksen made the rather startling leap from ice hockey to accounting, via an MBA from Duke...
View ArticleBig 4 "Refer a Friend, Get a Prize" Programs Increasingly Popular
The New York Times reports that both Ernst & Young and Deloitte are among the firms that trust its own people to find the best and brightest experienced hires because it "[saves] time and money"...
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Is the Big 5 Returning to California?
Hahahahaha. No, of course not. HOWEVER, Moss Adams is getting close to usurping one of the Big 4 in number of CalCPA members and that may give some people the impression that a regional firm is making...
View ArticleIs There a "Point" To Joining Your State Society of CPAs?
A GC reader wants to know:is there a point in joining the calcpa?I believe we've answered this before but it's a slow week already so why not revisit?It depends on where you are in your career but...
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