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- Accounting for Talent ; It's a war for talent at the Big Four of accountancy. Here's how you can make the most of it.
- Six months back, Pabani Sengupta, 36, decided to go on maternity leave. Nothing peculiar in that except that she wanted the three-month leave for adopting a seven-month-old child. Sengupta is Manager Financial Advisory Services, Pricewaterhouse-Coopers PwC India, that, incidentally, did not have any such provision in its HR policy. ...
- Research articles 2008-02-24
- A group of auditing firms including Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, BDO International and Grant Thornton collaborated on a report that insists liability standards should be eased for accounting firms and that compan
- A group of auditing firms including Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, BDO International and Grant Thornton collaborated on a report that insists liability standards should be eased for accounting firms and that companies and investors should face higher charges for forensic audits, which are more likely to...
- Research articles 2007-02-01
- The power of four; Accounting.
- The auditing profession is dangerously concentrated WHATEVER you might think if your accounts have ever been qualified, auditors are only human. And humans tend to exploit their power. So it is understandable that Britain's accounting watchdog revealed last week that investors and the finance...
- Research articles 2006-09-16
- Paid in full.(LAW SUITS)
- Jones Day partner Richard B. Whitney waited more an 20 years for this payday, but it was worth the wait. Whitney and Columbus Jones Day partner Fordham E. Huffman won a $119.9-million jury award against accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers from a case dating back...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- Graduates undeterred by auditing rules.
- Byline: Damien Lynch Feb 23, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Auditor independence rules are apparently not a major issue among graduates entering Australian accounting firms....
- Research articles 2006-02-23
- Managing the Fast-Paced World of Accounting
- As the recently appointed managing partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers' PwC Florham Park office, Kenneth K. Sharkey oversees about 1,000 employees. A 21-year veteran of PwC, Sharkey has undertaken a broad range of accounting projects and been a dose observer of major changes in the accounting industry. One of the biggest challenges...
- Research articles 2007-02-19
- Teach them well: mentoring programs go a long way toward staff retention, development
- Any accounting firm wooing young accountants in the past few years knows that competition is fierce. The profession's growth, coupled with a finite pool of candidates, has accounting firms dangling higher starting salaries, beefed-up benefit packages and other perks to attract employees. But there's another benefit firms can tout...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- A price worth paying? - Auditing Sarbanes-Oxley.(Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)
- America's response to Enron and other scandals was the Sarbanes-Oxley law. It is costing plenty--but is it working? THE Sarbanes-Oxley statute, which the United States enacted in an atmosphere of extraordinary agitation in 2002, is one of the most influential--and controversial--pieces of corporate legislation...
- Research articles 2005-05-21
- AuthentiDate Announces Decision to Replace Auditors
- SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- AuthentiDate Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: ADAT) announced that it has dismissed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as its independent registered public accounting firm. The Company stated in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it has had no disagreement with PricewaterhouseCoopers over the last two fiscal years on any...
- Research articles 2005-04-20
- A word from accounting's powers that be
- The mind-set of financial reporting should ideally evolve from "minimum compliance" to "investor driven." This was an overarching theme from preparers, auditors, regulators, standards setters, and users of financial reports who made presentations at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' AICPA National Conference on Current SEC and PCAOB Developments...
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- Accounting firms.(business leaders)(Illustration)
- Accounting Firms 2004 Professionals CPAs in Offices Rank Firm...
- Research articles 2004-10-15
- The list accounting firms.(Directory)(Illustration)
- ACCOUNTING FIRMS Ranked by number of CPAs in county; alphabetically in the event of tie Fairfield County Rank Name, address, Managing Number Number of...
- Research articles 2004-08-16
- Moore Wallace Announces Suspension of CFO.
- MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO and NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Feb 9, 2004 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- James R. Sulat Named Interim Chief Financial Officer Moore Wallace Incorporated (NYSE: MWI) (TSX: MWI) announced today that Mark Hiltwein, its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has...
- Research articles 2004-02-09
- BREAKING THE MARKET'S DEPENDENCE ON INDEPENDENCE: AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE "INDEPENDENT" OUTSIDE AUDITOR
- INTRODUCTIONA cornerstone of financial reporting by public companies is the requirement that their annual financial statements be audited by independent outside auditors. As a result of the rising tide of financial misstatements by public companies, however, there have been serious concerns as to whether outside auditors adequately carried out their...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Back to basics; Accountancy and law.
- The aspirations of accountancy firms in the law are faltering KPMG was the last of the big accountancy firms to enter the legal arena, and is the first to throw in the towel. On November 7th the firm announced it would cut its ties with...
- Research articles 2003-11-15
- Allegations Still Challenge Reputations of Nation's Largest Accounting Firms.
- By Ameet Sachdev, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 7--Early last year, auditor KPMG LLP was ready to make public its doubts about Spiegel Inc.'s ability to continue as a business. But the Downers Grove-based retailer, according to a subsequent SEC...
- Research articles 2003-10-07
- Accounting firms: ranked by number of local professionals as of May 31, 2003
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- Research articles 2003-08-11
- The graduate edge.
- Aug 01, 2003 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) There is evidence that Australian accounting graduates from certain universities are disadvantaged when applying for jobs at the most prestigious firms. The "big four" accounting firms in Australia are KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young and ...
- Research articles 2003-08-01
- Fortune-telling for businesses, big four style.
- Aug 04, 2003 (CA Charter - ABIX via COMTEX) The number of big accounting firms is decreasing. The sector is currently dominated by fours firms - PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG. Tony Harrington, CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers, is expecting more regulation....
- Research articles 2003-08-04
- Pricewaterhouse agrees to 2nd settlement
- WASHINGTON -- PricewaterhouseCoopers, the nation's largest accounting firm, has agreed to pay $1 million to settle federal regulators' allegations that it engaged in improper professional conduct in its audit work -- the second time in less than a year it has been cited for that alleged infraction. PricewaterhouseCoopers...
- Research articles 2003-05-23
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