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A New York sportswriter of another generation by the name of Dick Young, a hard-boiled, take-no-prisoners reporter who cared little about making friends and a lot about getting to the truth, used to regularly pen a must-read column titled "What's Going On Here?"

How can you tell if a Gen Yer hates his boss?

The Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration is urging the IRS to ensure better compliance by tax-exempt organizations that don’t file their tax returns.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has written to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission urging the SEC to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards.

The U.S. Bankruptcy Court has given the go-ahead for Deloitte to acquire substantially all that remains of consulting firm BearingPoint’s North American public services practice for $350 million.

Each year, approximately 140 students graduate with a Ph.D in accounting - not nearly enough to sustain the demand estimated at 500, according to research by David Leslie, chancellor professor of education at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va.The Ph.D pipeline, it seems, is producing only a trickle.

The annual Top 100 Firms report that accompanied our March 16-April 5, 2009, issue contained Accounting Today estimates of the fee split for No. 1-ranked Deloitte & Touche; the firm has since reported actual figures. Its 2008 fee split was A&A - 40 percent; Tax - 23 percent; Consulting - 32 percent; and Other - 5 percent. For Deloitte, A&A includes enterprise risk management, and "Other" is composed of financial advisory services.

New York-Northeast super-regional CPA and business advisory firm J.H. Cohn has unveiled a new ad campaign with the tagline, "The Experience to Face the Unprecedented."The effort, which continues to use Major League Baseball manager Joe Torre as the firm's spokesman, will appear in outdoor, print and radio spots. Currently print ads are running in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Radio spots are scheduled to begin in September.

IRS EMPLOYEES ABUSE PHONE CARDS

Among the most terrifying movies I've ever seen was Last House on the Left, a 1972 movie that was loosely based on a series of murderous events in the late 1950s. Now Hollywood has seen fit to remake that film in a version even more horrifying than the original release, including a scene so graphically violent that some film critics have posted a warning to potential viewers.