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Someone Who Has Never Dated an Accountant Came Up With 15 Reasons to Date an...
Earlier today, we spotted a post from our friends over at Above the Law mocking eHarmony's "15 Reasons to Date a Lawyer" (or, alternatively, 15 stupid reasons to date a lawyer) which, of course,...
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Ex-Grant Thornton Partner Sorry for Taking $4 Million That Wasn't His
Craig Haber, who, after being a partner at Grant Thornton for 11 years, started helping himself to client fees, admitted today that what he did was wrong and he's sure sorry about the whole thing:...
View ArticleCPA Exam Scores Are Delayed and Naturally People Are Losing Their Minds
I present to you, Exhibit A:NEWS FROM THE #AICPA: Score release delay: #CPAexam scores will be released on August 23, 2013 for results received by August 14, 2013.— NASBA (@NASBA) August 21, 2013And a...
View ArticleFootnotes: SEC's Turnover; Van Hollen Sues IRS; Bankruptcy for Student Loan...
Deutsche Bank has several openings for Principal Auditors in New York City. [GCJ] The founder of one of America's least respected brands now has his name on business school building. [AP]SEC Deals With...
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Accounting News Roundup: SEC's Proposal on CEO Pay; IRS Suit Going Nowhere...
SEC Is Set to Propose New Rule on CEO Pay [WSJ]The Securities and Exchange Commission will soon thrust CEO compensation back into the spotlight when it proposes a long-delayed rule requiring companies...
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Apparently, Referring to a Taxpayer as 'Constitutionally Challenged' Is...
I gotta plead on ignorance on this one; it sounds perfectly PC to me.Some Internal Revenue Service employees continue to use the term “tax protester” to refer to taxpayers despite a 1998 law...
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To Whom It May Going Concern: 'If Going Concern were to go public, who would...
As we may have mentioned, we get bombarded with a number of strange questions. Either most of you have been enjoying summer because things have been relatively mundane or we've been relatively...
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Footnotes: NASBA Grant Winners; California Hasn't Imploded; Can't Spell...
Tough Mudder has an open Senior Business Analyst position in Brooklyn. [GCJ] Nasdaq Resumes Trading After Outage [WSJ] The IASB’s Quixotic Attack on Disclosure “Boilerplate” [Accounting Onion] Tyco...
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Accounting News Roundup: Grant Thornton Cool with New Auditor Report, Still...
Grant Thornton CEO on Proposal for a New Kind Of Auditor’s Report [CFOJ]“The audit report hasn’t been changed in substance in 70 years and if this is what investors want then we need to meet the needs...
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We're Waiting...Just Waiting...in This Friday's Open Items Thread
Once again the time in the week has come where you can discuss anything you like. It's called Open Items.If we missed a story from this week, if you want to solicit or offer some advice, or discuss a...
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Here's What the Weekend Might Look Like If You Work at Moss Adams
Call me crazy but if this is meant to show how flexible the firm is, maybe they shouldn't have mentioned that it was the one nice day Seattle has seen in 15 years and that it happened to be a weekend...
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(UPDATE) This is the Worst Friday Ever For a Few CPA Exam Candidates
You can almost hear the frustrated clacking of F5 keys everywhere. Rest assured candidates who took the exam from July 21-Aug 14 will likely not be getting much work done today.I used all three gigs of...
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This Intern Captured "Your Future at Deloitte" Better Than Anyone
Apparently the Deloitte Luxembourg summer interns had a "tie photo contest" (yes, as in neckties) and of all the entries, we have to say this young lady NAILED IT.Unfortunately, she did not win but...
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Footnotes: Consultants are Happier Than Accountants; Accounting For the...
IRS has basis to recognize same-sex marriages nationwide Shout out to Maryland whoop whoop! [Don't Mess With Taxes]Rivkin and Casey weigh in on the IRS scandal (or lack thereof, depending on which side...
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Accounting News Roundup: Tax Reform's Memory Lane; U.S., U.K. Auditor...
Lessons of 1986 Show IRS Code Revision Tougher This Time [Bloomberg]Like today’s effort to cut rates, eliminate deductions and simplify the code, the deal under Ronald Reagan faltered again and again,...
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At Long Last, the Second Batch of CPA Exam Scores for the July/August Testing...
For those of you that have been holding your breath since Thursday, the suspense officially ceased on Saturday morning.#AICPA released the following scores to #NASBA for the July/Aug 2013 testing...
View ArticleLawyers Suing Moss Adams Remain Unflappable After Judge Tells Them to Get Lost
As you may or may not remember, the largest Ponzi Scheme in the state of Washington was perpetrated by a man named Frederick Darren Berg. His company, Meridian Group, bilked investors out of $150...
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Partners Hate Nothing More Than Employees Skipping Training Because They're...
Here's an interesting email that was forwarded to us late last week. It's from a peeved partner and we've removed the particulars since the message strikes us as universal among larger public...
View ArticleFiscal Cliff Deal Prevented Millions from Missing Out on AMT Fun
A new study from the Tax Policy Center discovered that more taxpayers will be subject to the alternative minimum tax in the coming years -- 6.1 million by 2023 -- but man, things could've been really...
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Here's a Bunch of Folks Really Upset at NASBA
Twitter wasn't the only place to air your expletive-filled grievances on Friday.Even though all CPA exam score release dates are target dates (meaning shit can and does happen and the AICPA makes no...
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