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By Francine • Dec 18th, 2013Stories that get stuck in your teeth.
Archive for the ‘Food for Thought’ Category
New In Chicago Booth’s Capital Ideas Magazine: Big Four To Big Three
By Francine • Dec 13th, 2013Could the audit industry, which thrives on a government mandate that subsidizes an oligopolistic business model, survive if we went, catastrophically, from four to three global firms?
Top Finance Bloggers in Chicago According to Crain’s
By Francine • Nov 2nd, 2013I’m very proud to have been included in the Crain’s Chicago Business list of top local finance bloggers.
Be Skeptical — Reporters Caught Not Fact-Checking Private Company Numbers
By Francine • Sep 29th, 2013“Auditor-turned-journalist Francine McKenna, writing at Medium, has some cautionary advice for journalists on reporting unaudited and unverified financial information.”
Nothing SOx-y About SEC’s JP Morgan “Whale” Settlement
By Francine • Sep 23rd, 2013If the JP Morgan “Whale” settlement was a true Sarbanes-Oxley success story, we’d see some bank executives going to jail. For a change.
Updated Review of Connaughton’s “The Payoff”
By Francine • Aug 25th, 2013An updated review of Jeff Connaughton’s great book from last year, “The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins” over at Medium.com and some more books to read before summer’s over.
On Herbalife And The Slow Death Of Value Investing
By Francine • Aug 3rd, 2013Big egos making shares move by waving their wands. That makes picking stocks based on fundamental analysis more than slightly anachronistic. A bit about Herbalife…
Cosmology Themes in Modern Literary Fiction
By Francine • Jul 25th, 2013This is the final paper from my first University of Chicago MLA class, “The New Cosmology”. There are some recommendations for summer reading if you are interested in literary science fiction. (As if I didn’t have enough writing to do…)
Unfrugal, Lawbreaking CEOs and Auditor Reputation: New At University of Chicago Booth School of Business
By Francine • Jul 15th, 2013Two new blog posts at University of Chicago Booth School of Business Capital Ideas blog. One is about public company CEOs who buy luxury items and break the law and the other is about auditor reputation. Now I need an example of a thrice-married and divorced audit partner with a gambling or drug addiction who owns a Ferrari and a private jet…
McKenna Writes For Accountancy On Offshore Profit Shifting By Multinationals
By Francine • May 1st, 2013Multinationals are under increasing scrutiny for income shifting and offshoring profits. I reported on the issues and U.S. legislative status in December in Accountancy, a magazine for the profession in the UK.
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, 