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Somehow, they manage to make accounting look sexy. It starts when they roll into campus career fairs with their nicely tailored suits, bundles of pens and tote bags to give away, even informational cards which can be planted in a pot and sprout as flowers. You’re not in Kansas anymore! This is the big leagues, and guess what? You made it!
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.
Professor David Albrecht writes: If you don’t yet spend much time reading blogs, I recommend that you start. I think many blogs are good enough to merit required reading status in your courses.
How can an undergrad with a <150 hour degree get the extra hours to qualify for the CPA exam once he starts working eighty hour weeks? Accounting is still touted in the media as a safe career. Is that really the case?
Leadership: One Man’s Perspective by Tenacious Truman
At re: The Auditors we spend a lot of time talking about leadership—mostly the lack of it. We bemoan the “auditor” mentality, the substitution of management for leadership, and the lack of accountability.
New US Advisory Leader, Dana McIlwain laid out the bad news: The time has come to cut. Average utilization is hovering at 69%. Cash collections are millions short. Campus recruiting for Advisory has been stopped cold. Business sucks and then there’s the 800+ BearingPoint folks to absorb. On November 11th the rank and file partners, fortified after training and coaching by HR via a webcast in the next few days, will chop 300+ professionals from PwC Advisory…
A guest post from Troy Costlow.
Troy Costlow is an MBA student studying Accounting & Finance at DePaul’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.
I’m frightened in a way I haven’t felt since I was little.
Dr. Kelly Pope is my professor at DePaul/Kellstadt and a regular contributor to this blog.
It’s her fault.
Maybe I shouldn’t admit this publicly, but [...]
I’d like to introduce Professor Kelly Richmond Pope. She will be contributing to this blog on an ongoing basis and I am thrilled.
Professor Pope is a Ph.D. and CPA and Assistant Professor in the School of Accountancy and MIS at DePaul University here in Chicago. She received her Ph.D. from Virginia Tech University in 2001. She teaches managerial [...]
Many companies are using Web 2.0 tools to aid in corporate communications and public relations. How many companies are using these tools for investor relations? In order to determine this, I looked at the top 100 Fortune companies’ investor relations Web sites.
A guest post from Karen Chodzicki
Recently, a friend of this blog was promoted to a supervisory position and asked us for recommendations for books to read to guide in these new responsibilities. There are many books out there that focus on developing leadership skills.
 Francine McKenna (@retheauditors) has more than twenty years of experience in consulting and professional services including tenure at two Big 4 firms, both in the US and abroad. For more info, check the "About" page. |
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