Sitemap - 2023 - The Dig
It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, but I will be A-O-K
My First Byline: An interview about my origins as a journalist
WSJ: PwC audit client Cigna calls off acquisition of PwC audit client Humana
Shared auditors may signal opportunities for bargain purchases, and deals also more likely to close
Cross post: What can accounting tell us about Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI?
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Bitwise Industries was supposed to change the world; its founders lost the plot
Uber and Lyft settle with New York but there's so much more to the story
Zeke Faux talks "Number Go Up" at the Pen & Pencil Club
McKenna at Stanford on FTX, its auditors and much, much more
Legal contingencies still a mystery at Uber: Can SEC comment letters shine a light?
McKenna travels to teach at Stanford, Berkeley, and Ohio State
PCAOB NOCLAR is necessary but not for the reasons you think
Michael Lewis is wrong about the "profitability" of FTX US and FTX Trading
John Coates talks to me about index funds, private equity, and the "Problem of Twelve" at the P&P
Morgenson and Rosner talk about plunderous private equity at the P&P
Ready or not litigation settlements continue to surprise investors
It's "island rules" for PwC and its clients in the Caribbean
The PCAOB wants to get tough with the auditors
Coming up at my Pen & Pencil Club Book Talk Series
McKenna quoted in Forbes on TransDigm
If the DOJ charges you with the wrong crime, did you actually do anything wrong?
McKenna presents at the LSU Fraud and Forensic Accounting Conference
Regulators forced to play whack-a-mole with crypto-friendly banks
Brady Dale's "SBF: How The FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto's Very Bad Good Guy"
Are the Big 4 audit firms practicing what they preach about trust and integrity?
McKenna gets the last word on Adani’s many auditors
Penn & Pencil Book Talk Series: Next Up Brady Dale on SBF and FTX
The SEC, and PCAOB, slam Marcum LLP over SPACs, but it's too little way, way too late
McKenna gets quoted: Zynex and Compass
Felix Salmon's The Phoenix Economy: Work, life and money in the new not normal
Anatomy of a failure: Credit Suisse, PwC, and KPMG, too
I'm hosting a new book talk series at Philadelphia's historic Pen & Pencil Club
Part 2: What is KPMG's bank audit quality history with the PCAOB and SEC?
Part 1: Where was KPMG while Silicon Valley Bank, and the rest, were teetering?
McKenna at Consensus 2023: All The Devils Were There
Translating your Research Impact for the Business Media: Story at 11.
Silicon Valley Bank – When a “standard” is not a standard
Life choices: A story about Buffett, Precision Castparts, Symantec, non-GAAP, and goodwill
Been caught stealin': Hindenburg Research is on a roll with Adani and Block (Square) short reports
The failure of Silicon Valley Bank: The song remains the same
The inevitable endangered state of EY's split-up strategy
Talking about accounting research using the GE case
Dispatch from the UK: KPMG Settles Carillion; The Whiners Are Not Happy
A presentation for TAF: Don’t Forget About the Auditors When Investigating Fraud
China push to move away from Big 4 auditors is not new but is now urgent
Tesla's FSD Revenue May Get A Reversal
Two Tesla 10-K Topics - Part 1
The PCAOB, and the SEC, can do so much more to rein in auditors giving false assurance about crypto
The PCAOB goes to China, well, just Hong Kong and inspects some audits