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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