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Upcoming speaking engagements
I am not teaching at Wharton this term so I'm headed out to talk to others about the state of accounting, audit, regulation, and corporate fraud.
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Francine McKenna
The Pen & Pencil Club Book Series welcomes Gretchen Morgenson and Josh Rosner on "These Are The Plunderers"
Morgenson and Rosner will talk with me Sept 12 on how "private equity runs — and wrecks — America".
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Francine McKenna
Little fish get fried: Maybe the SEC should have thrown this one back in and gone for the whales on the OpenSea?
Impact Theory takes the heat, but what about other NFT players?
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Dan Hoicowitz
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Francine McKenna
Laboring in the Big 4
Maybe today's top youth don't want to work in an industry chronically in the news for all the wrong reasons.
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Francine McKenna
Ready or not litigation settlements continue to surprise investors
Seems to me disclosure has gotten much worse not better and auditors are complicit in helping companies to strategically disclose.
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Francine McKenna
August 2023
It's "island rules" for PwC and its clients in the Caribbean
PwC does all kind of business in Barbados.
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Dan Hoicowitz
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Francine McKenna
The PCAOB wants to get tough with the auditors
This not our first time at this rodeo. It will end in tears. Again.
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Francine McKenna
Coming up at my Pen & Pencil Club Book Talk Series
I’m taking a break from the Pen & Pencil Club book talk series in August since they tell me everyone in Philly is “down the shore”. I’ve just returned…
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Francine McKenna
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McKenna quoted in Forbes on TransDigm
Conglomerate TransDigm buys smaller companies — the only ones that make particular things — and jacks up prices for customers who don’t have a choice…
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Francine McKenna
If the DOJ charges you with the wrong crime, did you actually do anything wrong?
KPMG's David Middendorf and PCAOB's Jeffrey Wada were convicted of wire fraud. Four more pled guilty to similar crimes. Now DOJ says its reading of the…
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Francine McKenna
July 2023
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