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Get Smart in This Friday's Open Items Thread
It's Friday again and time to engage in some insightful chatter on any subject that you want.Did we miss some news from the last week? Fail your CPA Exam by "that much"? Looking for some career advice?...
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BDO Adds a Feather to Its Cap After Landing Exclusive Deal with Offensively...
I can't help but think of this: Anyway, here are the canned quotes from the principals:"We are thrilled to serve as the exclusive accounting firm of The Washington Redskins," said Wayne Berson, CEO of...
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Unilever CFO Tries to Let PwC Go Gently
Jean-Marc Huet, the company's chief financial officer, said: "Our business is very large in scale and reach, with operations in over a hundred countries. "The challenge that this poses for our auditors...
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Footnotes: A Revenue Recognition Transition Group; Twitter's Tweet Break;...
London court orders Grant Thornton to release reports in Tchenguiz suit [Reuters]Twitter Getting $22 Mil Tax Break for Helping Charities Tweet [VW]FASB and IASB to Form Revenue Recognition Transition...
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Accounting News Roundup: Setback for Deloitte in MG Rover; PwC's...
Deloitte loses appeal in MG Rover disciplinary case [Reuters]Accountants Deloitte has lost an appeal over a regulatory ruling that it failed to manage conflicts of interest in its advice to MG Rover...
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Ernst & Young Lost a Lot of Audit Clients Last Quarter
I suppose "a lot" is a relative term, but I think most people would agree that to lose, on average, more than one client per week constitutes "a lot." Yep! According to this report from Accounting...
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Grant Thornton Audit Partners Might Want to Read Those Opinions Just a Bit...
Call this is a GT service announcement (or something). A tipster informed us a little while ago that there were a couple of Purple Rose of Chicago audit opinions floating around that have an...
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Life at Deloitte Doesn't Always Include Proper Meals
"Forgot" to eat lunch? More like was so overwhelmed with busy work that he couldn't tear himself away for 30 minutes to eat a proper meal. But hey, I'm sure that wasn't his first Cheetos and Snickers...
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Footnotes: PwC Irish Eyes Are Frowning; Possible Tax Implications for Private...
Gartner, Inc. is looking for Tax Manager in Stamford, CT. Do you have 5+ years experience an MST/CPA? Get on it. [GCJ] PwC sued for €1bn over Quinn insurance collapse [FT]The AICPA Council voted to...
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Accounting News Roundup: Obama to Make New Offer on Corporate Taxes; Barnes &...
Obama to Offer New Deal on Corporate Taxes, Jobs [WSJ]Hoping to break an impasse, President Barack Obama today will extend a new offer to congressional Republicans in which he would back an overhaul of...
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The Partner Track: Part III -- Managing Ain't So Bad
Welcome to the latest installment of The Partner Track, a story of a Big 4 Senior Manager navigating a career in public accounting and thinking about the next step -- the partnership. I liked being a...
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The AICPA Is Getting Some Heat For Feed the Pig Ads on Rush Limbaugh's Show
Recently, a Feed the Pig commercial aired during a broadcast by everyone's favorite far right wing hot air machine Rush Limbaugh and apparently there is a select group of dedicated folks who make it...
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[UPDATED] The War Against the Billable Hour Goes Mainstream
Imagine my shock when I started combing Google News for something - anything - worth writing today and I found this profile of accounting hero and billable hour combatant Jason Blumer in the New York...
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If Not a Troll, This Guy Might Be the Saddest Accountant Ever
When I say "saddest accountant ever," I exclude certain Going Concern commenters who shall remain nameless.Don't ask me why I was reading this interview with Farrah Abraham, I'm a little obsessed with...
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Footnotes: What Do the IRS and Nazis Have in Common?; It's Not Fraud if It's...
Protip: if a change in accounting makes the numbers look better, the actual numbers are still the same [NPR]How Big Businesses Slash Taxes With R&D Credit -- and How Yours Can, Too [Entrepreneur]A...
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U.S. lawmakers take Washington tax reform show on the road [Reuters]Democratic Senator Max Baucus and Republican Representative Dave Camp, who chair the congressional tax-writing committees, sought...
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Let's Discuss: Switching From Your Firm's Audit Practice to the Advisory...
Last week during Caleb’s pseudo office hours, someone threw out the following question:Have y'all covered the transition from Assurance to Transaction Services in GC?Ahh, audit to advisory. The Holy...
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I Can't Stop Staring at This Picture of Benajmin Bankes Hamming It Up
While I was cruising the webernet in search for God knows what, I stumbled across this picture of Feed the Pig spokeswine Benjamin Bankes at the South Dakota CPA Society's Facebook page and it's...
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McGladrey's Great Lakes Leader Is Gonna Take Off Now
We've heard from a few people that McGladrey's Great Lakes Regional Leader David Shane is leaving the firm and it seems a little unexpected. Mickey G's CEO Joe Adams sent this message out on...
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Footnotes: AICPA Stands Ready to Lobby the Hell Out of Senate Finance...
The Neat Company needs a Senior Accountant in Philadelphia, PA. Four to six years experience and CPA are nice things to have. [GCJ]AICPA Recaps Its Tax Reform Recommendations in Letter to Senate...
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