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Let's Welcome Ernst & Young CEO-elect Mark Weinberger to Twitter, Everybody
M. Dubs broke his Twitter cherry on a Saturday:My congratulations to @hamdiulukaya CEO of @chobani - our World Entrepreneur of the Year 2013! #WEOY— Mark Weinberger (@Mark_Weinberger) June 8, 2013This...
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Oddly, Dem and GOP Leaders Don't Agree on Next Act in IRS Investigation Circus
Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) shared some new info yesterday about some of the employees in the IRS's Cincinnati office -- including a self-described "conservative Republican" -- who were all,...
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Footnotes: BoMo Q&A; Not So Fast, REIT Wannabes; Deloitte Went Boutique...
How Managers Do Love the Leasing ED: Let Me Count the Ways [Accounting Onion]Here's an interview with PwC's Bob Moritz that I haven't finished yet because it's so long. [AT]Rear slap gets ex-NFL star...
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Accounting News Roundup: Deloitte Sees Lloyds Dismissal Differently; Another...
Occupy Wall Street Stylists Pursue U.K. Tax Dodgers [Bloomberg]UK Uncut has no offices and no formal leader, and key members often plot strategy over midnight pints of ale in London pubs. Yet, with...
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Teen Mom-cum-Porn Star Farrah Abraham Is Going to Concentrate on Internal...
After getting on a MTV show more or less because she had sex with a dude with a bad overbite and then getting paid $1.5 million for having sex on camera, it only makes sense that Farrah Abraham would...
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Financial Accounting Foundation Seems Slightly Annoyed with the AICPA's New...
Judging by the AICPA's PR blitz, you'd think that everyone was excited about their release of its Financial Reporting Framework for Small- and Medium-Sized Entities. Just out of curiousity, I went back...
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Those Walking Workstations Aren't Collecting Dust at Just Big PwC Offices
Nope! They're good enough for central Pennsylvania, too. The Harrisburg office only has about 60 people, but they are pulling up the stakes at Market Street, and getting brand new 6,300 square-foot...
View ArticleFootnotes: Grant Thornton's New COO; More on ParenteBeard's Partner Exodus;...
Here's a nice article on EY Olympian Gwen Jorgensen. [ESPN]Mike McGuire will replace Lou Grabowsky is new Partner in charge of operations for Grant Thornton. [GT]Sad: Tracy Lefteroff, global managing...
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Private Equity Capitalizes on Chinese Firms’ Depressed Shares [DealBook]Don't let the headline fool you. This article features a nightmare deal for Ambow Education Holding and how it blew up on Baring...
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The Tax Man Drumeth
With the sound of the drums echoing off the walls of the surrounding buildings, it feels as if it could be an impromptu street performance - but it's not. This is tax collecting Bangalore-style. Fed up...
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The Accountant's Definitive Guide to Interviews, Part One
Continuing in efforts to best prepare you for your next job (maybe one you’ll land through GC Jobs) I wanted talk about interviewing.By this point you have a nice polished resume and well worded cover...
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Footnotes: A Tax Messi; Actually, the IRS Is Nothing Like Enron; Staffing...
Spanish Court Files Tax Evasion Charges Against Messi [NYT]Should Small Businesses Adopt New Accounting Standards? [BBW]Internship Ends With No Job Offer? How to Cope [WSJ]Ways and Means Chairman: IRS...
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Big Four fee growth outpaces smaller firms [Accountancy Age]The Big Four accounting firms registered an impressive 7.7% increase in fee income over the last financial year, while smaller firms...
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Georgia Man Discovers IRS Wasn't Joking About the Possibility of His Fake...
If you are currently thinking about engaging in any tax fraud, you should know that if the IRS is gracious enough to inform you that your actions -- like, say, claiming ownership of a treasury bond...
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Paternity Leave at Accounting Firms Better Than Getting a Tie for Father's Day
Sunday is Father's Day, so our friends at Vault have shared the results from their working parent survey that cover the dear ol' dads and accounting firms faired pretty well: [S]urvey respondents who...
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NASBA Stands Behind FASB's Private GAAP, Can't Believe the AICPA's Chutzpah
On Tuesday we discussed the AICPA's effort to offer a new OCBOA for small businesses, making special note of the Financial Accounting Foundation's slightly irritated response. While the FAF was fine...
View ArticleFootnotes: Hot Assets; A New E&Y OMP in Motown; CIA as Off-books Tax...
Former PwC Partner Falls Victim To 'Hot Asset' Rules In Tax Court [Forbes]FASB Indefinitely Defers Certain Disclosures for Nonpublic Employee Benefit Plans [FASB]Law firm Brown Piven is investigating...
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Accounting News Roundup: KPMG's Ties at RBS; McGladrey Settles Florida Fraud...
Fears raised over close ties between RBS and top accountant KPMG [TI]Concerns rose last night over the close relationship between taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland and the accounting giant KPMG,...
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The Definitive Guide to a Successful Public Accounting Summer Internship
Hey, INTERN. Yes, you there wearing your hangover like a scarlet letter on this lovely Friday. Down your third gatorade and listen up. This is everything you need to know to not completely waste your...
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Welcome to Open Items, Let's Discuss Anything You Want
Okay, it's Friday afternoon and lots of you have checked out for the week. Hopefully this bit of news will help you across the finish line.Lots of you have screamed for forums on this site and you can...
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