I love hearing about unique jobs that could be open to me in the future, and this is one such job. The United Nations has a Board of Auditors that audits UN programs and reports along similar lines to a regular financial statement audit. The Board consists of three members from UN countries, rotating one out […]

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This is cool: BDO Stoy Hayward’s Managing Partner Jeremy Newman has a blog. It’s no surprise he was voted Accoun­tancy Age’s Person­ality of the Year — this guy is switched on. I think it goes without saying — and it’s a constant theme for my fellow accountant bloggers — that we need more folks at […]

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Since the last one went so well, and since there have been many posts this week on my fellow accountant blogs that I’d like to highlight, here’s another quick round-up of three inter­esting nuggets: Dan Meyer of Tick Marks talks about a new standard in the US called FIN 48, which requires companies making assumptions […]

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Beancoun­terBlog discusses the recent détente between movie stars and the IRS. Seems the IRS feels all those really expensive gifts that celebrities get should be taxable, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Associ­ation agrees. Celebs will now be “issued appro­priate infor­ma­tional tax forms by the HFPA and will be respon­sible for satis­fying their income tax obligations.” […]

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The Accounting Observer has invented a new term: Sarbitching. I love it!

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