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• Q&A With Medicis CEO Jonah Shacknai, Who Sees a "Definite Downturn" in Vanity Pharma

  BNET - 2008-10-06

  Medicis is going through a dramatic period. The vanity pharma company's Restylane dermal filler is in a battle royale with Allergan's Juvederm. It's waiting for FDA approval for Reloxin, its competitor to Allergan's Botox. And it just acquired LipoSonix, a high-intensity non-invasive ultrasound fat reducer. I talked...

  Tags: Accounting, Ernst & Young LLP, Restatement, Physician, Allergan Inc., Medicis, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Jim Edwards

• Long Island accounting firms add services in effort to boost revenue

  - 2008-09-19

  When one of Weiser's clients decided to sell a building, they asked the accounting firm for help finding an appraiser. Weiser didn't simply advise the company whom to hire: The firm did the appraisal itself. "I said, 'You know we have a real estate valuation division that could...

  Tags: accounting, Cohen, consulting, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, revenue

• LHC Group, Inc. Appoints New Independent Auditors

  - 2008-08-25

  LAFAYETTE, La. -- LHC Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:LHCG), one of the largest providers of home nursing services in the United States, announced today that its Audit Committee has selected KPMG LLP to serve as LHC Group's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2008, replacing Ernst...

  Tags: accounting, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, LHC Group Inc.

• Aspiring 'management consultant' named Ernst & Young managing partner: accounting veteran advances from 24-year stint in Phoenix to oversee firm's local office

  - 2008-07-28

  Mark Stephens has been through a few down economic cycles during his 30-plus years in accounting and knows the drill. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "You just have to focus on being as efficient as you can, and focus on relationships. In challenging environments you have to look deeper, and watch...

  Tags: accounting, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Phoenix Technologies

• Accounting Firms Expect Slow or No Growth Next Year

  - 2008-07-21

  ACCOUNTING: Decrease in SOX, public offerings curbed hiring to 4% Orange County's biggest accounting firms saw another gain in workers in the past 12 months due to ongoing Sarbanes-Oxley work, mergers and acquisitions and tax work. The next 12 months could be a different story. Last year's subprime...

  Tags: accounting, Deloitte LLP, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Government, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, tax, worker

• ZOLL Medical Appoints New Independent Auditors

  - 2008-06-23

  CHELMSFORD, Mass. -- ZOLL Medical Corporation (NasdaqGS: ZOLL), a manufacturer of resuscitation devices and related software solutions, announced today that its Audit Committee had acted to change ZOLL's independent registered public accounting firm from Ernst & Young LLP to BDO Seidman, LLP. Richard A. Packer, ZOLL's President and Chief...

  Tags: accounting, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE

• E&Y's Irvine Office Getting New Leader

  - 2008-06-23

  ACCOUNTING: Former head gets larger post after year on job Ernst & Young LLP's Irvine office has a new leader-a year after Michael Bertolino took charge of the accounting firm's Orange County operations. John Belli, managing partner of Ernst & Young's San Diego office, is set to take...

  Tags: accounting, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, leader, Taxes

• SMU Cox Offers Tax Concentration for the Master of Science in Accounting Program

  - 2008-02-15

  With the aid of a generous $500,000 gift by the Ernst & Young Foundation, the Cox School of Business at SMU announces the creation of a tax concentration for the Master of Science in Accounting MSA program. The Ernst & Young gift will support the establishment of new graduate tax...

  Tags: accounting, Ernst & Young LLP, tax

• Accounting firms—ranked by total employees in the greater San Fernando Valley

  - 2007-12-10

  Accounting Firms--Ranked by total employees in the greater San Fernando Valley Rank Firm Staffing ...

  Tags: accounting, audit, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Hunt, Kaplan, Kellogg, KPMG LLP, Manufacturing, Miller, Taxes, Van, Wolf

• SOX, Economy Drive Accounting Firms; Challenge: New Talent

  - 2007-07-23

  Ongoing Sarbanes-Oxley work and a strong local economy once again fueled employee growth at Orange County's top accounting firms. Local accounting firms boosted employ- & ment 6% to 4,138 during | the past year, according o to this week's Business ?journalist? Firmwide employment grew 9% to 563,111 people. The county's...

  Tags: accounting, Deloitte LLP, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Government, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, talent, worker