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I often forget that not everyone who reads my posts also follows me every day on Twitter. I often Tweet breaking news, my reviews and intermittent musing on the days (and often the evening’s) events. Even if I am not posting on this site, I am always working in the background. I was fortunate to be mentioned kindly in two different blogs recently.
Are you in the Chicago area? Please join us Thursday, January 14th for
SAS 70 and the Third Party Assurance Landscape
Chicago Chapter January Meeeting
We are pleased to welcome Jan Hertzberg, Executive Director, Grant Thornton, and Vincent Concialdi, Director, Grant Thornton and panel discussion.
January 14th, 3:00 to 5:00 pm at UBS Tower.
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The second in a series of articles by Professor Bob Graff a retired PricewaterhouseCoopers partner living in South Korea.
There’s nothing wrong with hiring more of your interns for full time positions. But, hiring more interns instead has big pitfalls, for both the employee and the firm.
Alex Howard’s story discusses the impact of the Supreme Court case re: the PCOAB on IT compliance. Article contains several quotes from me and the rest of the great story, including tons of resources to catch up on this issue .
Deloitte should be careful what they wish for. The Flanagan insider trading litigation has forced them to reveal their woefully inadequate policies and procedures regarding independence compliance. While trying to placate their clients who were dragged through the mud on this and exact revenge against their own leadership-level partner, a pillar of the Chicago social and philanthropic community, they’ve admitted to allowing Flanagan to breach their standards more than 300 times and to get away with it.
Time to get back in the game after a fairly quiet, low-key holiday period. However, much has been going on behind the scenes at re: The Auditors HQ…
 Francine McKenna (@retheauditors) has more than twenty-five years of experience in consulting and professional services including tenure at two Big 4 firms, both in the US and abroad. Look for my column, "Accounting Watchdog" at Forbes.com and "Accountable" at American Banker. For more information, click "About" at the bottom of this page. Your firm can sponsor this specialized news site. For more information contact Francine McKenna, fmckenna@mckennapartners.com |
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