Category: Accounting and Audit

Certified Public Accountant

Many small business owners do their finances and taxes on their own, so you may ask: why should I Selecting a Small Business Accountant? The reason: no matter what stage your small business is in, you … Continue reading…

Watch out! A sovereign issue between US and China is trickling down as heartburn between the SEC and the Big Four Firms.
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By Michael Foster, Big4.com Blogger

Hurricane Sandy, making its way through the northeast of the United States, has caused several Big4 firms to close their offices in addition to closing trading on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

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Maureen Broderick, Big4.com Guest Blogger

If you’re serving the wrong clients, you don’t have a chance for success.”  Bill Hermann, former Managing Partner, Plante & Moran

For professional service firms the client base, in effect, defines the business. Clients represent … Continue reading…

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Maureen Broderick

Broderick, Big4.com Guest Blogger

“The fundamentals of the professional service business are brutally simple; it’s about talent, it’s about clients, and it’s about teaming to bring it all together to create and deliver value.”  Jim Quigley, former … Continue reading…

Success! Today, more than 120 countries adopt and accept the IFRS as its standards for the Financial Statements – and some of them has adopted it as its accounting principles (in Brazil, for example).
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By Michael Foster, Big4.com Blogger

After external auditors for Olympus were cleared of responsibility in one of the largest fraud scandals in Japanese history, the electronics firm continues to face legal pressure in Japan. Now, the firm has reported separate … Continue reading…

By Michael Foster, Big4.com Blogger

Auditors and accountants have expressed concern to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) that auditors’ consulting businesses are producing a conflict of interest, in addition to worries that other conflicts are compromising audit … Continue reading…

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http://www.pwc.com/ca/en/campus-recruiting/life-at-pwc/our-people/fahad.jhtml

Fahad lives by his golden rule that what you learn on the job is … Continue reading…

By: Mary Werner, CPA, MOD, Big4 Guest Blogger  

“In these troubled and uncertain times, we don’t need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone’s intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.”

~Margaret Wheatley… Continue reading…

By: Mary Werner, CPA, MOD, Big4 Guest Blogger  

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eye for an instant?”

~Henry David Thoreau

My dog Zoey should have been named “Radar.” She … Continue reading…

By: Mary Werner, CPA, MOD, Big4 Guest Blogger  

“It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence,

it is not the triumph of heart over head, it is the unique intersection of … Continue reading…

By Michael Foster, Big4.com Blogger

The Securities and Exchange Commission has made a formal request to the Big4 auditing firms requesting that they ask the firms to hand over documents relating to audits of China-based companies listed on public exchanges … Continue reading…

By: Mary Werner, CPA, MOD, Big4 Guest Blogger  

“At its core, trust is about relationships.”

~David Maister

In my last two blog posts, I talked about two of the five key EQ skills needed to move from technician to … Continue reading…

By Richard Cornelisse

The aim of the blog is to discuss fraud in general and more specific VAT fraud.  What is the positive correlation? What is the impact on tax controversy, company’s prioritization and the game plan needed to mitigate … Continue reading…