Accounting Movies Snubbed by the Oscars
November 12, 2015 11:50 AM
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The GAAP Father
Don Pacioli, the head of a centuries-old Italian accounting family who has opened his own firm in New York, organizes a lavish wedding for his daughter to which his clients come to pay him homage. Trouble starts when he meets with the heads of the Big Five accounting firms to decide how they will carve up the lucrative Las Vegas territory. They want to enter into consulting services, but he is worried it will damage their reputation. They make him an offer he cant refuse: either merge with one of their firms or sleep with the fishes.
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CPA Kane
Accountant ruthlessly builds his firm by poaching the best CPAs from his rivals. But he gets his comeuppance when he tries to become president of his state CPA society and is blackmailed into dropping out of the race once his opponent discovers Kane is having an extramarital affair. After smashing up his firms offices, all he is left with are the snow globes he used to give his clients for the holidays.
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Assurance of Arabia
British audit partner is assigned to his firms new Saudi office with the task of rallying the staff to drive out the previous management. But before long he finds himself adopting local customs and garb, along with Islamic finance standards.
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Money Girl
New York finance whiz lands a coveted spot performing in the Financial Follies, where she becomes an overnight sensation and is wooed by a dashing, but unfaithful gambler whose frequent wins and losses make his tax return especially complicated. Dont rain on her parade.
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On the Waterhouse
Terry Malloy could have been a contender in the accounting profession, but instead he chooses to challenge the brutal tactics of the head of his CPA firm network and finds himself ostracized by his fellow practitioners, until he wins their respect in a climactic brawl.
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How Green Was My 401(k)
Mining family copes with the impact of declining energy stocks on their retirement funds as one family member after another is forced to diversify their investments so they can prop up their dwindling savings.
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The French Convergence
Popeye Doyle catches a representative of the International Accounting Standards Board trying to smuggle IFRS into the United States from Marseille by hiding a copy of the standards in a secret compartment in his car. After a thrilling high-speed chase, Popeye pursues him onto an elevated train, but the IASB member escapes through the closing subway doors with a strategically placed umbrella handle.
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The Best Tax Years of Our Lives
World War II servicemen returning home after the war reunite with their families and reminisce about how they were paid so little while overseas, they ended up owing little to no taxes.
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It Happened One Fiscal Quarter
Brash financial analyst chases after heiress as she prepares to elope with a scandal-struck CFO before the quarterly close. He bonds with her as he shows her how to dunk donuts, hitchhike on the open road and balance her checkbook.
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Gone with the WIP
Notorious rapscallion Rhett Butler sees the Work In Process inventory in his Atlanta warehouse go up in flames before he can finish counting it as the Yankees march through his city, but he manages to rescue that devilish vixen Scarlett, even though she loves his romantic rival, a full-charge bookkeeper by the name of Ashley Wilkes.
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The Wizard of Odds
Dorothy is transported by a tornado to Las Vegas to deal with an embezzling accountant and sing immortal songs like Somewhere over the Cash Flow and Hotlines and Red Flags and Fraud, Oh My. After exposing the fraudulent bookkeeper, she receives a whistleblower award from the SEC and a free trip back to Kansas.
