Vault Survey: Accounting Firms OK with Gay
According to responses thus far on Vault's annual Accounting Survey (which you can take here if you haven't already), it appears as though the largest 100 accounting firms are pretty darn gay...
View ArticleFootnote: Deloitte's Cozy Pittsburgh Office; Tax Avoidance Morality; Lehman...
Deloitte among accounting firms clear the books of extra square footage Deloitte LLP has quietly renewed its lease at One PPG Place, taking about 60,000 square feet, roughly half of what it currently...
View ArticleAccounting News Roundup: Accountants Have a Difference of Opinion with MPs;...
Accounting group hits back at politicians [FT, Earlier]Michael Izza, chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, hit back after tax experts from the four biggest...
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In Some People's Eyes This is the Accounting Equivalent of Burning the...
We don't have an official headcount for this particular IFRS rally, but it's our understanding that at least one person's attendance was a complete coincidence.I hope this doesn't affect a future FASB...
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Oregon Man’s Encounter with IRS Agent Oddly Similar to the Plot of a Bad...
Today in bizarre sexual encounters with government employees news, a Fall Creek, Oregon man has filed a lawsuit against an IRS agent for "coerc[ing] him into having sex with her after suggesting that...
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The First CPA Exam Scores for 2013 Are Coming Out Any Second Now, Let's All...
How many of you are doing this right now?Now, technically scores should start trickling out tomorrow but that isn't stopping a bunch of you from wearing the letters off your F5 key today anyway.Share...
View ArticleHiring Needs of Portland Accounting Firms Suggest There Are Lots of People...
The PBJ reports that KPMG, Deloitte, PwC, Grant Thornton, Moss Adams and a whole gaggle of other firms are looking for people that have graphic design backgrounds.Ha! No, that's a lie. They want...
View ArticleLet's Have a Candid Conversation About Being Gay In Public Accounting
After last week's post about LGBT accounting professionals, we received the following:Dear Going Concern (Caleb, Adrienne, and the once-a-week Greg),I feel like the GC community could benefit from an...
View ArticleFootnotes: A Slow Day Post Super Bowl, Or Something | 02.04.13
SEC Weighs Bigger Stock-Price Increments 12 Years After Pennies [Bloomberg]Yum warns on 2013 as chicken scare hurts KFC [Reuters]Accountants’ pay rises 7% over past year [AccountancyAge]Pandora Media...
View ArticleANR: PwC Keeps On Keepin' On; PCAOB Has 'F' Countries Nailed Down; Crunching...
U.S. Sues S&P Over Ratings [WSJ]The Justice Department sued Standard & Poor's Ratings Services late Monday, alleging the firm ignored its own standards to rate mortgage bonds that imploded in...
View ArticleIFRS Foundation's Cool Club Doesn’t Require Support of IFRS, Rather Something...
Back in November, the IASB threw out this Accounting Standards Advisory Forum idea that would allow a dozen national rulemaking bodies to get together and talk fancy about debits and credits. An...
View ArticleAnyone Concerned That PwC's Legal Troubles Lacked International Flair Can...
Scandal-hit subprime lender Cattles is suing PwC, alleging negligence over its audit of two years of financial statements. PwC intends to contest what it called the “inflated and misguided claim” in...
View ArticleDiligent CPA Exam Candidate Bamboozled By Cute, Low-Quality Swedish Desk
I'm sure we all have a piece or twenty of cheap-ass IKEA furniture in our homes so I'm not going to judge this CPA exam candidate's choice of home furnishings, though I do question using the logic of...
View ArticleFootnotes: Auditor Liability in the Dixon Fraud; Stealing From Girl Scouts;...
Auditor Liability for the Dixon Fraud - Scape-Goat Hunting in the Courthouse [Re:Balance]This guy got five years for stealing $100k from the Girl Scouts of Orange County. That's about 25,000 (or so)...
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Accounting News Roundup: Carried Interest Back in Tax Debate; E&Y Picks Up...
As Unit Pleads Guilty, R.B.S. Pays $612 Million Over Rate Rigging [DealBook]The Royal Bank of Scotland on Wednesday struck a combined $612 million settlement with American and British authorities over...
View ArticleThe Situation Around the Registered Tax Return Preparer Program Has Become a...
In case you weren't paying attention, the IRS's Registered Tax Return Preparer (RTRP) program just got shit-canned by a federal judge. Of course, as CPAs we don't really have to care about the RTRP...
View ArticleCPA's Story of Quitting His Crappy Job Harkens to a Simpler Time When We...
Brian Dettmering is a CPA in Milwaukee that's been in the game for 30 years. These days he has his own practice, Riverwest Accounting Services that he operates out of his home. He pretty much works...
View ArticleAn Ex-Grant Thornton Partner Has Been Charged with Embezzling $4 Million
Here's an interesting story about a fella by the name of Craig Haber. Craig became a partner at Grant Thornton in 1993. Around 2004, Craig decided to start helping himself to client fees that...
View ArticleFootnotes: Accounting Tricks; WEED; A Guy Who Won't Be Getting 72 Virgins in...
Debevoise Ditches Its Trusts and Estates Practice [ATL]Accounting "trick" may help clinch EU budget deal [Reuters]Taxes Are (Still) Not Part of the Draw for California’s Richest [NYT]Sure You've Paid...
View ArticleAccounting News Roundup: KPMG Partner Acquitted in Tax Shelter Case;...
Google Plans Litigation Against U.S. Tax Authorities [Bloomberg]Google Inc., which is being probed by several tax agencies around the world, is planning litigation against the U.S. Internal Revenue...
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