The Latest

  • ENRON AUDITOR AGREES TO SEC INJUNCTION

    February 25
  • FASB AGREES TO DEFER FIN 48

    February 25
  • Like most of you, I've heard my share of employee horror stories over the years. Drawing on personal experience, I once reported to someone who, over the span of just two years, accumulated more harassment complaints than a Kiss concert in a nursing home. Needless to say, that was not an employment memory I would press between the pages of a scrapbook.

    February 25
  • It was June 1936, in the midst of the worst depression with 30 percent unemployment and I had just graduated from Seward Park High School in Manhattan. I had applied to Columbia University, New York University and City College of New York -- all three admitted me. Columbia charged $6 per credit, NYU charged $4 per credit and City College of New York was tuition-free. I chose CCNY.

    February 25
  • Every time I open the pages of Accounting Today and turn to the "Spirit of Accounting" column, I'm not sure whether I should don my clown outfit or sackcloth and ashes. The article titled "This accounting for cash is not outstanding" (Jan. 7-27, 2008, page 15) is no exception.

    February 25
  • SEC SETTLES WITH UNREGISTERED AUDITORS

    February 25
  • In a deal that lawmakers and the White House hope will help jumpstart a wheezing economy, leaders on both sides of the aisle agreed on a $150 billion economic stimulus plan that would hand most taxpayers rebate checks of between $600 and $1,200.

    February 25
  • M&A

    CHICAGO FIRMS MERGE

    February 25
  • A case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court could have huge implications for state tax law when it's decided in late spring.

    February 25
  • IRS BOOSTS TAX AUDITS

    February 25