Only days ago, WSJ ran the headline “EY Breakup Plan Is Really Dead” and included […]
Tag: Failure
EY’s Gonna Borrow Money and Do Some Accounting Tricks to Spare Partner Payouts From Everest Fallout
The following tidbit of information about the aftermath of the Project Everest failure is going […]
Let’s Figure Out How This Person Bombed the CPA Exam More Spectacularly Than Any CPA Exam Bomb in History
Ed. note: an earlier version of this article contained the name of a review course […]
3 Epic Fails of Backup and Recovery
Auditors — especially seasoned IT auditors — are familiar with the scene of sitting with […]
#CPAexamFail Doesn’t Do This Justice
Nor does it seem real which either means: 1) It's totally real and if so, […]
Common Traps CPA Exam Candidates Fall Into and How to Avoid Them
Now that scores are out, this may be relevant to your interests.
So You Failed the CPA Exam, Now What?
With the end of the year fast approaching and only two months left to knock […]
(UPDATE) Canadian Officials Not Impressed with Ernst & Young’s Audits of Sino-Forest
Up until this point, Ernst & Young has seemed perfectly content to see how this Sino-Forest […]
Let’s Discuss: Auditors and The Responsibility to Detect Fraud
When I finally got around to writing about the HP/Autonomy finger pointing party yesterday, the […]
KPMG’s PCAOB Inspection Report Shows Firm’s Audit Quality Was Consistently Meh with Last Year
Late yesterday the PCAOB released the first Big 4 firm inspection report with none other […]
PCAOB’s Latest Report Finds That Auditors of Broker-Dealers Suck, Too
PCAOB Auditor Wrecking Ball Tour 2012 rolls on with the an interim report on the […]
This Farewell Email from a Former Ernst & Young Senior Manager Is an Epic Failure
The farewell email is one of few art forms in the corporate world. There are […]