Here’s an inter­esting story coming out of Dallas: Embattled multi-level marketing firm Mannatech has fired its independent auditor, Grant Thornton, after the auditor gave the company an ultimatum: Remove Chairman and founder Sam Caster from the company or find yourself another auditor. So they found themselves another auditor, BDO Seidman, and let Grant Thornton go. […]

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By now, the verdict in the BDO Seidman lawsuit has been covered by all the major industry blogs. All the heavy­weights have regis­tered their opinions in this great swirling mass known as the blogos­phere. The mainstream media has tossed it around this way and that. There is near unanimity amongst all commenters: Sucks to be them. […]

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Kind of old news (it’s from January last year) but BDO Seidman has imple­mented commercial open source software to manage their nationwide network of member firms. Open source software is software whose under­lying source code is openly available and is usually licensed under the GNU GPL. What I like about open source is that the […]

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It’s a little strange but within a week of an announcement by BDO Seidman that they were returning to Nashville, Tennessee with an office and aim to focus on the health care industry, Price­wa­ter­house­C­oopers makes a similar announcement about said city and industry. What I’m wondering is why both of those firms are just establishing […]

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