• Fix the Tax Code Friday: Targeted Enforcement – Top three targets: 1) offshore accounts; 2) pass-through entities; 3) high wage earners [Tax Girl]
• Securities Regulators to Talk Financial Literacy With Students – And the regulators might learn something. [SEC.gov]
• 2 Programmers Are Charged With Aiding Madoff – Bor-ing. Family members next time please. [DealBook]
• BYU Sweeps 2009 Deloitte Tax Case Study Competition – See? Caffeine isn’t necessary. [TaxProf Blog]
• Hard Times and Bad Behavior – Are you shoplifiting? [Financial Armageddon]
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Review Comments | 06.23.09
A Lost Decade for Jobs – [Business Week]
All-electric car-sharing debuts in Baltimore – Baltimore? [Miami Herald]
SEC eyes shorter maturity limits for money funds: source – Real reactionary. [Reuters]
White House to Abandon Spy-Satellite Program – This will not reduce the paranoia [WSJ]
Review Comments | 12.03.09
• JDA rolls in with >75 tomorrow so if you’ve got any questions on the CPA Exam, send them to our tips mailbox.
• International Accounting Standards Board has “disgraced itself,” says critic – Can you say that about a knight? [CFOZone]
• Its Future in Limbo, the PCAOB Asks for More Money – Gotta pay those board members. [CFO]
• Hairy Issues: Are You Flaunting Your Heavage? – The Journal does it again. [DB]
• Judge ends Enron shareholder lawsuit against banks – Eight years after the E went down, investors have recovered approximately 30 cents on the dollar. [Reuters]
• Tax Court Allows Nurse to Deduct Cost of University of Phoenix MBA – ‘An MBA degree is different from a degree that serves as foundational qualification to attain a professional license. For instance, this Court had denied deductions for law school expenses, because a law degree qualifies a taxpayer for the new trade or business of being a lawyer.’ [TaxProf Blog]
Review Comments | 07.02.09
•In New York City, Fewer Murders on Rainy Days – It’s got to have something to do with those ubiquitous black $3 umbrellas. They’re like security blankets. [New York Times]
•U.S. marshals begin seizure of Madoff property in NY – Quaint penthouse, UES for those cool with living with the ghosts of charities and elderly Jews [Reuters]
•Arnie’s IOUs will pay 3.75 per cent – Ken Lewis will be making his counter-offer shortly [FT Alphaville]