Footnotes: Is the Tax Avoidance Party About to End?; FAF Far Past Due Date;...
Moody, Famiglietti & Andronico is looking for audit managers in Tewksbury, Mass. [GCJ] Plan at G-20 Is to Tighten Global Rules on Taxes [NYT]Creating a "Chainsaw" List of Excel Worksheet Functions...
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Accounting News Roundup: Deloitte's Record Fine; PwC Partner Pay Looking Good...
Deloitte fined £14m for conflict of interest over MG Rover [Guardian]Deloitte, one of the UK's largest accountancy firms, has been fined a record-breaking £14m for a conflict of interest that occurred...
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Top Ten Cities for Finance Jobs
By Jason Bramwell For the third straight year, Accounting Principals, an accounting and finance staffing agency, has identified the top ten cities to find a job in finance. For 2013, Dallas takes the...
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Top 5 Checklist for Successful Job Hunting
It’s tough out there. Job hunting is almost a full time job in itself. Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, recruiters and job boards all need juggling and managing.So we’re making it easy for you. Our top five...
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Audit Committees Have More Issues Than a Magazine Stand
Our friends at Audit Analytics have all the fun info:445 companies have reported #DisclosureControl issues with their Board, Audit Committee, or Corporate Governance thus far in 2013. #SOX302— Audit...
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CPA Exam Candidates Must Be Starting Families Earlier
OR Becker is trying to expand the customer base. OR Gearty and Olintbro are convincing their friends to get the CPA just for grins. No matter what the trend is, the mother of all CPA review is showing...
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Oh Dear Lord, Grant Thornton's Belfast Office Has a Willy Wonka Room
Grant Thornton is the most dynamic accounting firm known to man. Now, some of you might doubt this based on past revelations such as temp tatts, unoriginal taglines, and questionable advertising...
View ArticleFootnotes: Much Ado About Lehman; Tax Reform Tour 2013 Rocks Memphis; Who's...
Capital One has internal auditor positions in NewYork, NY and Richmond, VA. [GCJ]I recommend reading this DealBook post on why the government regulators didn't do anything about Lehman Brothers. [NYT]...
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Accounting News Roundup: Depreciation and Tax Policy; India Going After Audit...
Depreciation’s Place in Tax Policy [Economix/NYT]Bruce Bartlett has everything you need to know about the history of depreciation and how it became the eighth-largest tax expenditure in the IRC....
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The Third Batch of CPA Exam Scores Has Been Released for the July/August...
After the GREAT SCORE DELAY last month, you just knew the AICPA and NASBA were going to make sure this release went off without a hitch. #AICPA released the following scores to #NASBA for the...
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AICPA's Young CPA Network Dreaming of Unattainable Clients
The World's Highest-Paid Models Of 2013 via @Forbeshttp://t.co/340povaXsY— Young CPA Network (@YoungCPANetwork) September 10, 2013
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Let's Walk Down Memory Lane with Ernst & Young and Lehman Brothers
This week, lots of people are talking about the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy because five years is half of a decade and, well, it was the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history so that counts for...
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Footnotes: CPA Likely More Qualified Than a Ghost; Illinois CPA Is "Charged"...
Auditors have warned of Philly School District accounting problems since 1987 [Philly.com]U.S. wants to seize assets tied to Russian tax refund scheme [Reuters]Bisk has bailed out of the CPA review...
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Accounting News Roundup: SEC Behind on XBRL; Ackman Warns PwC About...
U.S. House panel probes obsolete technology at SEC [Reuters]House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa sent a letter on Tuesday to Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White asking for...
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Where in the World Is John Veihmeyer?
By way of the always interesting tip box, we've been alerted to the KPMG CEO's alleged whereabouts. Since we have a classic case of "pics or it didn't happen" we'll refrain from reporting his precise...
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New Mom, CPAs Shouldn't Have to Squeeze CPE in Between Diaper Changes
The California Board of Accountancy recently implemented several changes aimed at supporting military personnel and their families. One of the greatest improvements allows California CPAs who are...
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Ex-Deloitte Partner Learns That Procrastination Has Its Consequences
All humans procrastinate from time to time. Whether it's putting off washing the car or feeding the kids, we simply can't get to everything. I mean, who can?As indentured servants to the capital...
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A Few Curious Folks Wonder Out Loud if Government Accounting is Constitutional
I remember my very first installment of government accounting as it is taught in FAR like it was yesterday. Cranky from a 5am wakeup and not necessarily looking forward to spending an entire day stuck...
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Mini Circuits is looking for a Cost Accounting Manager in New York City. [GCJ]SEC’s Enforcement Unit Changes Tack [CFOJ]Supply and demand for accounting talent at record levels [JofA]Should You Bring...
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Accounting News Roundup: Always Avoiding Estate Taxes...Always; Norquist: Pot...
Brussels probes multinationals’ tax deals [FT]Brussels is probing Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands over their tax deals with multinationals paving the way potentially for a formal investigation...
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