Speaking Engagements/Conferences
I’m on the road visiting universities, attending select conferences and forums and speaking to groups of all kinds. If you would like me to visit your university and your accounting/audit program,...
View Article18-Year Old Anthony Canalungo Questions Herbalife, And PwC, On Exchange Rates
Anthony Canalungo ( @Canalungo on Twitter) is an 18 year old college student and young investor that has been following the Herbalife story since 2012. He says he’s been a follower of Benjamin Graham...
View ArticleMcKenna At Medium: Two New Columns For the Bull Market Collection
You may have seen via my LinkedIn page that I’m back at Medium.com.read more...
View ArticleUpdate: The Shoemakerâs Children⦠The Big Four And Their...
Did you know that each of the Big Four audit firms and some of the next tier also run SEC-registered broker-dealers? Although they don’t hold customer money, yet, they do count on the capital from...
View ArticleSupport This University of Notre Dame Accounting Grad Salary Survey!
Professor Jennifer Sustersic Stevens, PhD, CPA at Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame has asked me to post her request for your participation in a survey that will support...
View ArticleLuxembourg Tax Leaks Put PwC On The Defensive
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and its media partners released 28,000 Luxembourg tax ruling documents on November 5. These documents were all prepared by global audit...
View ArticleDuped By Fake Documents? All In A Dayâs Work For Some Journalists
I could not resist writing at Medium.com about the teen trader who recently duped a journalist from New York magazine into believing he had made $72 million trading gold and other alternative assets....
View ArticleThe Full Service Firm: McKenna Comments For Canadaâs The Bottom Line On...
Jeff Buckstein at Canada’s The Bottom Line published a feature back in October about the largest public accounting firms’ expansion into legal services. We’re not talking about due diligence, corporate...
View ArticleAuditors Can Be Whistleblowers: A Guest Post On Recent Developments In...
It’s rare but it does happen. Employees of the largest audit firms do occasionally step up and blow the whistle on potentially illegal and/or unethical activities at their firm or its clients.read more...
View ArticleJournalistsâ Obligations In The Shareholder Value Maximization Debate
I wrote at Medium.com on January 6 about two journalists, both at the New York Times, who penned sympathetic stories about shareholders and other stakeholders that were paid short shrift when dominant...
View ArticleWhen Auditors Get Mixed Up In M&A, Smaller Clients Get Hurt
Over at Medium.com I’ve written about a new academic study, Shared Auditors in Mergers and Acquisitions, that documents an interesting, rarely commented on auditor conflict of interest. The data...
View ArticlePwC Settles Campbell Overtime Case; Impact To Profession Is Happening Now
PwC recently agreed to settle the Campbell v. PwC overtime class action lawsuit pending in California. Two former unlicensed PwC accounting associates, with the support of law firm Kershaw, Cutter...
View ArticleDeloitte US First Female CEO; Thereâs More We Donât Know
Wouldnât it be nice if investors and other interested parties could look up Cathy Engelbert in a public and easily accessible registry and find out about all the audit clients where she has been a...
View ArticlePeter Thielâs Pursuit Of Technological Progress; Itâs Not About...
Last quarter I took two classes towards a Masters in Liberal Arts degree at University of Chicago. One was a study of Hindu texts taught by Professor Wendy Doniger. She is the famous and...
View ArticlePeter Thielâs Pursuit Of Technological Progress; Itâs Not About...
In feedback to my paper, Professor Andreas Glaeser said, “I find your most interesting idea to lie in Thiel-fellowship workers as representatives of an entrepreneurial proletariat of sorts. Or, to put...
View ArticlePeter Thielâs Pursuit Of Technological Progress; Itâs Not About...
As a journalist, a reporter, I sometimes have to read things I would not otherwise. My luxury as a freelance journalist has been to write what I want, for whom I wish, when I want, and charge what the...
View Articlere: The Auditors is now at MarketWatch
May 18, 2015 was my first day on the job as a reporter for MarketWatch in Washington, DC, the sister online publication to the Wall Street Journal and Barrons that focuses on retail investors.read more...
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