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The SEC and cybersecurity internal controls cases: R.R. Donnelley and SolarWinds

Can SEC staff hold the line? We're not in Kansas anymore, folks.

Crosspost: Microsoft’s quiet investment in OpenAI: the story behind $13 billion in disclosed investment

The second coming: The SEC speaks about what comes next

The top five post-election tax topics where you can be proactive

In the news: Super Micro and OpenAI

The WaPo and LA Times owners are tax minimizers

Some nostalgia after a trip to California and Chicago

Dancing in the dark: OpenAI and Microsoft, PCAOB critics

Round-Up: Quotes, PCAOB under fire, more private equity, and NOCLAR

Finra says fewer bad actors explains reduced, quieter, enforcement: Does that include insider trading by Big 4 partners?

Outtakes: Molex and Navistar and life after Arthur Andersen

Well in it: Prager Metis, private equity, and Autodesk

Across the pond: Teaching at University of Cambridge

Big News: QC 1000 and PwC China

EY makes a strategic move in a tight audit market by dropping clients, says Deep Quarry

Now you see it: SEC dismisses enforcement actions against audit partners after Jarkesy

Live from the Archives: The Big 4 and a Living Wage

Notable News: Housing, B. Riley, Steward/MPT, Adani, and more

Cherry-picking: Some PCAOB inspection results and some tragic news

Bottle Caps: Coca-Cola outtakes and highlights from AAA Ethics Symposium

Coca-Cola Faces $16 Billion Tax Battle: Ongoing Dispute with IRS Puts Profit and Liquidity at Risk

Small audit firms dropping like flies: Self-inflicted wounds or something else?

Coca-Cola smacked again over auditor EY-developed tax avoidance schemes

Tesla's dismal results draw the shorts, and the tipsters, back out of the shadows

Presentations you can use and updates on key accounting fraud cases

As the world turns: So much going on including crowded airports

Tesla makes sure its delivery numbers hit more than miss

What happened to all the insider trading cases at Big 4 public accounting firms?

Special offer to celebrate the end of the Big 4 fiscal year

Going to California: The stories don't stop because I take time off to smell the avocados

Autodesk investigates: A whistleblower raises issues but there's no restatement

Robinhood can’t buy a break, or can they?

Snowflake apparently has a big cybersecurity problem but auditor PwC never warned anyone

Summer bonanza: GameStop frenzy, Ackman's Pershing Square IPO, FDIC's Gruenberg, and Texas hubris

Illumina/Grail update, NYSE ITGC shenanigans, and some summer reads

Banks in disguise: Starbucks, Tesla, Disney and memories

Yearning to be free cash flow: Deep Quarry on the SEC's FCF comment letters

Peloton: The market's unhealthy infatuation with overhyped technology

McKenna speaks to Stigler Center JIRs

B.F. Borgers taken out of the game

Bank on it: The news about banks and their accounting isn't over

Shaking the tree: Travels, non-competes, capital structure, FTX, fraud, short-sellers, PCAOB proposals, and trolls

MicroStrategy didn't early adopt new accounting for its Bitcoin; CEO Saylor may be scared of big taxes

Crossposts: Two from Deep Quarry

Epilogue: A brazen disregard for public duty

A brazen disregard for public duty: PwC's latest auditor independence mess

Born yesterday: The mismatch between fundamentals and share price started long before DJT

Cross-post: Are companies complying with the new SEC compensation clawback rule?

There's a deluge of news about accounting: ADM, Chemours, Caterpillar, Autonomy, and Evergrande

Private equity sings the siren's song; Grant Thornton answers

Singing for your supper: Defending audit firms and auditors

Cross-post: More on SEC comment letters and Tesla's tax accounting

The Bankers' New Clothes: An interview with Stanford's Anat Admati

Cross-post: SEC inquiries may explain Tesla's release of $5.9 billion tax valuation allowance

Monday morning sure looks fine: Mattel, pillow talk, more mistakes, Trump, Reddit IPO, and Autonomy on my mind

Sunday gravy: Throw Lyft's typo in the pot, stir in an SEC amicus brief, Ray Ball's opinion about the accountant shortage, and some fricassee of Trump

U.S. regulators likely won't force more transparency for global auditor failures

In the rear view mirror: Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett, and Berkshire Hathaway

Needles and threads, bits and bobs; ADM, Tesla, auditor concentration, and auditor independence

Weekend Update: Commenting, writing, teaching, speaking

What to do about the accountant shortage?

SEC files a fraud complaint against SolarWinds and its CISO, but skips PwC, for now