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You Can Run But You Can’t Hide. Therefore, Sabotage Your Coworkers
Ahh recruiters. Each time I received an email, phone call, voicemail, or LinkedIn message it was a game. Which of their desperate ploys will actually stand out from the rest?Inevitable answer:...
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RSVP: Free Client-Loving CPE on February 18
Brought to you by AccountingWEB, this is a 50 minute online session worth 1 CPE credit:Have you ever wondered why some clients leave or seem dissatisfied when you feel you haven’t done anything wrong?...
View ArticleCongratulations, Your Job is the Third Best Job in Business (Allegedly)
Oh yippee, another arbitrary decision to slap "accountant" on a best of list! Except this one comes courtesy U.S. News & World Report so you should probably give it slightly more weight than some...
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Caption Contest Tuesday: Underwater KPMG Banner
Stumbled across this while... well, never mind what I was doing, just know I found this on accident. Come up with the best caption to this and I'll feature you in Between the Spreadsheets as well as...
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It’s Form 1040, In Excel—Need I Say More?
You people with a predilection for tax forms. At least you’re not Glenn Reeves, the guy who has slavishly recreated Form 1040 in Microsoft Excel for the past 17 years. Sick of Lacerte, ATX, Creative...
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Footnotes: Go Lira!; All's Well That Ends Well (In China); You Autocomplete...
Central bankers in Turkey cooked up an idea to save the lira with some serious rate increases. HINT HINT, FEDERAL RESERVE [WSJ]The State of the Federal Budget Is Opaque [U.S. News]Yahoo had a crappy...
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ANR: Survey Reminds Us That Everyone Hates the Proposed Lease Accounting...
Deloitte Survey: Preparation for Lease Accounting Compliance Stalls as Concerns over IT and Data Systems Rise [Deloitte]I think we're officially at the kicking and screaming point when Deloitte is...
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Busy Season Zen: Let Your Cares Float Away With This Sea Otter Pup
I have no idea what took us so long but effective today, we're going to run a weekly Busy Season Zen moment for you to forget about your troubles and gently fade into a moment outside of yourself where...
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Chicago CPA Charged By SEC For Insider Trading on His Wife's Account
OH MAN. Someone is going to be in the doghouse for quite some time.Let's take a look at what this clown allegedly did:The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it filed a civil enforcement...
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Accounting Career Conundrums: The Path to Becoming an International...
This week, a newb discovers GC and solicits career advice. Which is pretty much every day around these parts. If you just happened to Google the right combination of words to land in our lap and need...
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Here's What Happens When You Ask Reddit What to "Where" in a Big 4 Office
Here's the question:This almost went the direction OP hoped it would, or rather it would have had suspenders not found their way into the question. Everything went downhill from there.Case in point,...
View ArticleThe Allscripts Director of Corporate Audit Accused by SEC of Insider Trading...
Feel free to refer to our earlier post about Steven Dombrowski's trouble with the SEC.So, there wasn't much about our pal Steve in the SEC complaint, but that's what interns are for. I put my kitten to...
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What Happens When You Mix a Seedy Strip Club, an Unsophisticated Taxpayer and...
In a better world, the daily fraud perpetuated at a strip club wouldn’t go beyond silicone implants and claims of paying law school tuition. But alas, these are dark times we find ourselves in.Squarely...
View ArticleFootnotes: Madoff's Loyal IT Guys; GTFO SOTU; No Accounting for China | 01.29.14
Madoff IT Guys Wrote Code to Trick Auditors, Jury Told [Bloomberg]You guys, the State of the Union is sooooo 2000 [NYT]'Vampire' bank RBS accused of ruining businesses and lives [BusinessZone]It's...
View ArticleANR: Yes, We Heard Deloitte Is a Big Firm; EY Gets a Joe Montana Jersey; Penn...
Deloitte leapfrogs PwC to become top accountant -global survey [Reuters]Apparently a survey was needed for something we told you about 4 months ago. "The International Accounting Bulletin said Deloitte...
View ArticleLet's Exchange Heated Words About: The Top 30 Accounting Undergrad Programs
This is the closest we'll get to a BCS ranking of accounting programs. Accounting Degree Review mashed together the lists of US News, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Public Accounting Report to come up...
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PwC Doing Its Part to Keep Dog Tails Wagging in Northeast Ohio
The Cleveland Cavaliers and PwC US have teamed up to make the Northeast Ohio community greener by launching the "Trees for Threes” program. As part of their commitment to sustainability and the...
View ArticleFootnotes: Dress Code for Deloitte Partner's Super Bowl Party; PCAOB Extends...
A Tale of Two Chinese Auditor Risk Factors [CFOJ]Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) has jumped on the make the NFL pay taxes bandwagon. [The Hill]I'm a little surprised that a partner would be such an awful...
View ArticleAccounting News Roundup: Deloitte's Chinese Legal Practice; ex-Crazy Eddie...
Deloitte Dabbles in Chinese Legal Practice [American Lawyer]Someone at Deloitte saw the writing on the wall: "With little fanfare, Deloitte opened its own domestic law firm in Shanghai at the beginning...
View ArticleFriday Open Items Is Open For Business
How on Earth is it Friday again? Who cares, it is!I'm sorry I missed you all yesterday, my face had an unfortunate date with pavement the night before and let's just say I look like my boyfriend at the...
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