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Carbon market bonanza for accountants
in Sox First, on July 10, 2009
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First it was Sarbanes-Oxley. Now it looks like accountants will find that carbon trading a license to print money. Earlier this week, we had reports that the Big Four accounting firms are beefin...
RIAA Wins Lawsuit Against Usenet.com
in P2P File Sharing, on July 9, 2009
...n a copyright infringement suit against filesharing site Usenet.com .
"In October 2007 RIAA lawyers chucked a federal lawsuit at Usenet.com, in which it claimed that the Fargo, North Dakota ne...
AMR: Oracle/Sun to 'Wreak Havoc' on Enterprise Software Market
in Java Entrepreneur, on July 9, 2009
...uot; Gage writes.
"If Dennis is right, and he has a good track record of being right, Oracle lawyers are already getting ready to go to the mattresses. This battle will make the Peoplesoft/DoJ ...
Can YouTube survive?
in Sox First, on July 7, 2009
...online content, a whiff of potential profit is an irresistible lure for predators such as copyright lawyers circling user-generated content monetization and content partners that are all too ready to ...
Palin shoots the media
in Sox First, on July 7, 2009
...n the right decision made as I enter last yr in office to not run again...." and also with her lawyers releasing an extraordinary letter threatening to sue anyone including "liberal" ...
Deporting a Monk Over Emplyment Violations: What is Work?
in Global Mobility Report, on June 30, 2009
...haring" anyway. Now the INS wants to deport him for 'working" without a visa. But his lawyers say he took a vow of poverty and receives no salary for what he does.
It will be interesti...
Climate change: the lawyers' picnic
in Sox First, on June 27, 2009
... making bogus claims about their products being environmentally friendly. Climate change will be a lawyers' picnic....
Madoff's jail survival guide
in Sox First, on June 26, 2009
...y and the tips are coming in on how he could best survive jail. Whether it's 12 years, as his lawyers have asked, or longer. Lawyers have told CNN he is unlikely to leave prison alive. Madoff...
Mercy for Madoff plea
in Sox First, on June 24, 2009
...yers. Madoff ripped off widows and war veterans too. He didn't discriminate. Now, Madoff's lawyers are telling the court that 12 years would be enough. In their letter to Judge Denny Chin, ...
Jammie Thomas-Rasset Hit With $1.92 Million Fine
in P2P File Sharing, on June 21, 2009
...ieve will be played out in the appellate courts," he writes. "Jammie Thomas-Rasset's lawyers are, we think, playing a long game, and we'll see how that all works out, over several mo...
Recession and marriage
in Sox First, on June 12, 2009
... saving marriages. Or it might be prolonging the agony. In Britain, The Independent reports that accountants Grant Thornton have found that fewer couples are divorcing. Plummeting property prices m...
13-inch MacBook Pro 2009 拆解
in Wangtam, on June 11, 2009
... Including webOS Root Image(!)
• Smartphone Rises Fast From Gadget to Necessity
• Lawyers plan class-action to reclaim "$100M+" RIAA "stole"
• Apple stuns WWDC crowd with pul...
Camara vs. the RIAA
in P2P File Sharing, on June 10, 2009
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An unusually aggressive lawyer and his Harvard Law School professor have filed a class action lawsuit against the RIAA for over $100 million...
"Lawyer Kiwi Camara is joining forces with Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson to file a class-action lawsuit against the re...
Is manufacturing dead?
in Sox First, on June 3, 2009
...rnet has taken over the routine tasks of travel agents, real estate brokers, stock brokers and even accountants. With digitization and high-speed data networks a lot of back office work can now be don...
New MBAs claim they'll be ethical. Yeah right!
in Sox First, on May 31, 2009
...ts pick up again. My skepticism is shared by the Seeking Alpha blog which pointedly observes that lawyers taking oaths has done little to clean up that profession. As it says: "Forgive the ske...
The recession: blaming the business schools
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...remorse or sign of self-reflection. It's a case of onwards and upwards. But then, if doctors or lawyers caused so much destruction to their profession, surely we would be asking questions about wh...
Speed Sourcing - An Over-Reaction to Long Procurement Cycles?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on May 19, 2009
...nd by providing them with management support to complete the process efficiently.
Third, get the lawyers talking early. A lot of the issues in the boilerplate can be addressed without the entire tea...
How To Install Windows 7 On Almost Any Netbook
in Wangtam, on May 18, 2009
...ounces Six Apart WordPress Plugins at WordCamp Mid-Atlantic
• First, stop the lawyers
• Jumbra.com - Combining RSS & Atom Feeds Together
• GroupieGuide - Create a free group website to organ...
GAO slams SEC
in Sox First, on May 9, 2009
...ppened and how badly it was run under Christopher Cox. According to the report, the law enforcement lawyers were convinced SEC bureaucrats were reluctant to crack down on companies breaking the law. ...
The next accounting battle
in Sox First, on May 3, 2009
...untant at Securities and Exchange Commission says it will eclipse fair value as a painful issue for accountants. This is not before time and probably comes too late. Off balance sheet vehicles were o...
Woody Allen: no reputation left to ruin, say lawyers
in Sox First, on April 16, 2009
...m his movie " Annie Hall," without his authorization. Now, as the Guardian reports, lawyers for American Apparel say he can't sue them for ruining his reputation as he has no reput...
Goldman Sachs attacks blogger
in Sox First, on April 13, 2009
... has managed to get under their skin. Which is why Goldman Sachs called in the attack dogs, hiring lawyers Chadbourne & Parke to send Morgan a "cease and desist letter" , informing h...
New directions on the IFRS roadmap
in Sox First, on March 25, 2009
...has slammed into reverse with CFO.com reporting that the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants has sent a letter to the SEC slamming the road map put up by the previous SEC chairman C...
IBM Buying Sun?
in Java Entrepreneur, on March 21, 2009
... considering purchasing Sun Microsystems .
"Teams of International Business Machines Corp. lawyers are examining Sun Microsystems Inc.'s contracts and documents in a due-diligence process ...
Founder Sez Fewer Illegal Files on Pirate Bay Than on YouTube
in P2P File Sharing, on February 28, 2009
... were found to be legal," writes CD Freaks' Michael Hatamoto . "Both prosecutors and lawyers for copyright holders believe founders of the Pirate Bay knew copyrighted material was being...
Thanks to Google Android Store, Apple App Store Doesn't Seem So Bad
in The Gadgets Weblog, on February 27, 2009
...to think that the user will win, but the users aren't the ones with deep pockets and an army of lawyers.
via CrunchGear ...
Viewing new technologies through old prisms
in The CIO Weblog, on February 19, 2009
... business logic to become embedded in unwieldy, undocumented Excel spreadsheets carefully horded by accountants away from the eyes of the IT department. No CIO or IT manager from the post-Visicalc era...
Madoff madness
in Sox First, on February 4, 2009
...EC officials proved to be a systemic disappointment and lead me to conclude that the SEC securities lawyers, if only through their investigative ineptitude and financial illiteracy, colluded to mainta...
Lessons from Siemens
in Sox First, on January 19, 2009
...orry because it leaves you wondering whether the company has learned any lessons from the debacle. Lawyers say there are several lessons to be drawn from the Siemens saga. The most obvious is that ...
FAS 157: Is it Killing Investment?
in Bizinformer, on January 19, 2009
... value of investments they had to write off.
One consistent theme seems to be that no one (except accountants) are happy about FAS 157. Here's a few pieces, some new and some old, on the new rul...
Due Diligence in the post-Satyam World
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on January 19, 2009
... on outsourcing.
None of these are new - in fact, they represent perennial advice that is given by lawyers and consultants to those companies seeking to outsource. What has changed is the baseline of...
Beware of Twitter: lawyers
in Sox First, on January 16, 2009
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The micro-blogging Twitter might be gaining 5,000 to 10,000 new accounts a day but lawyers are warning that it could be dangerous. Tresa Baldas in the National Law Journal says lawyers are wa...
Fair value blow for banks
in Sox First, on January 1, 2009
...nother set of rules for another sector. And the bottom line is that the meltdown was not caused by accountants....
The Madoff lawsuits roll in
in Sox First, on December 24, 2008
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It had to happen. Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme is turning into a lawyers' picnic with the lawsuits rolling in. First, we have reports that a New York woman, Phyllis Mol...
The Madoff scandal: now for the auditors
in Sox First, on December 23, 2008
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Yesterday, I did a blog entry on how the Madoff scandal had out accountants in the gun. The view now is that no-one could have pulled off a scam as big as this, and kept it going for so long, wi...
Insurance brokers warn
in Sox First, on December 19, 2008
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Already the signs aren't looking good, and accountants should start to worry. With the credit crisis, the number of securities class actions has nearly doubled this year, according to NERA E...
UK Law Firm May Be Uploading Content to Trap Downloaders
in P2P File Sharing, on November 27, 2008
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Techdirt's Mike Masnick makes a compelling case for the idea that a UK law firm (named in his post) is focused more on extorting money from people than on protecting copyrights - and is actually uploading content intentionally in order to t...
Obama slams "tone-deaf" business leaders
in Sox First, on November 26, 2008
...could inflate - and obscure - the value of the mess, they could inflate the value of their bonuses. Lawyers tell me the problem with my revenge fantasy is that there is no law against what's happe...
Accounting growth soars, despite recession
in Sox First, on November 24, 2008
... I always talk about how accountants are recession-proof. The last blog entry I did on it looked at how they are enjoying above-average salary increases, despite the downturn. Now a new survey, r...
Fair value battle escalates
in Sox First, on October 29, 2008
...system demonstrates that major principles of accounting are much too important to be left solely to accountants." Of course, there was none of this talk when markets were booming. The world'...
Halloween Charity Bash
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 24, 2008
...y aspects of life and charity in the Tampa Bay area. The members of 13 Ugly Men consist of doctors, lawyers, financial planners, college professors, and entrepreneurs who are good natured and like to ...
The Lehman legacy
in Sox First, on October 7, 2008
...to New York just ahead of its bankruptcy filing, a move that has drawn criticism from creditors and accountants, according to two people familiar with the matter. A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney&#...
Amazon EC2 does Windows
in The CIO Weblog, on October 2, 2008
...reted, I have yet to see a Microsoft EULA that can't ultimately be twisted by the company's lawyers into meaning just about whatever they want it to mean. The new terms were intended to ease i...
The Pirate Bay Free in Italy once more
in P2P File Sharing, on September 29, 2008
...e redirected to an anti piracy agency.
After an appeal by TPB, the block has been lifted, with the lawyers arguing that there was no jurisdiction for what had happened before, and that TPB had done n...
What recession? - accountants
in Sox First, on September 29, 2008
...t how the Big Four are planning to axe staff. Times are tough. Well, maybe not that tough. Not for accountants anyway with the latest CCH Public Accounting Report with the big firms still expecting...
Bonuses to Lehman executives in the gun
in Sox First, on September 22, 2008
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Bonuses paid to Lehman executives are at risk, lawyers say . So $5.7 billion worth of bonuses were paid a year before Lehman Brothers filed for the biggest bankruptcy in history. And that raises...
Accountants rake it in
in Sox First, on September 3, 2008
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I keep raising the question whether accountants are recession-proof . Now we have further evidence of that with the latest Hewitt study showing that the bean counters are going to get the bigg...
Why is Outsourcing the Political Whipping Boy?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on September 1, 2008
...hese factors are, however, difficult to quantify. In a world that is seemingly more and more run by accountants, relying upon non-quantifiable benefits can prove to be a challenge.
What does this all...
Closing the GAAP
in Sox First, on August 28, 2008
... that strikes me is whether there are enough skills for the take-up, although six years should give accountants like enough to get their heads around IFRS. A fuller discussion of those issues here . ...
Mrs Fields goes bust - another sign of recession
in Sox First, on August 18, 2008
Last Friday's announcement that the Mrs Fields Famous Brands chain of cookie shops has gone broke is another sign of the deep problems now confronting the US economy. It has has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after blaming "aggressive competition" in its franchising b...
FASB has drug makers squealing
in Sox First, on August 15, 2008
...e they would be able to use the information to force settlements and influence juries. Knowing what lawyers are like, it's a good point. And bad guesswork by companies would leave them vulnerable....
Recession-proof accountants
in Sox First, on August 6, 2008
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Earlier this year, I asked the question: are accountants recession-proof? As I pointed out at the time, accounting firms tend to run very lean and the fees just keep coming and heading north. N...
Practice Ranges: A Right Way and A Wrong Way
in Eagle Par Birdie, on August 5, 2008
...t a raspberry to the dopes who are too lazy to make their ranges better.
May they have good accountants to help them file for bankruptcy.
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A Bump in Disputes For Outsourcing Contracts?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on July 28, 2008
...cing contracts. Cynically, I could say that this article was a way for Pinsent to drum up business (lawyers suggesting lawsuits and re-negotiations always seems to me to be a bit suspect), but in-hous...
The Lock Cup
in The Gadgets Weblog, on July 22, 2008
...or sale anywhere. I can only imagine the product liability lawsuits stemming from this product. The lawyers would have a field day with this. ...
Financial professionals continue to rake it in
in Sox First, on July 22, 2008
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Funny thing about this recession. It seems to be affecting everyone except for accountants. In the past I have done entries, such as this one , looking at the phenomenon. No surprises then that ...
Conrad Black appeals again
in Sox First, on July 21, 2008
...e, he is appealing again to get out of his prison cell in Florida. According to this report , his lawyers have filed a 14-page rehearing petition, claiming the ruling was based on a "demonstrab...
Corrupt raiders
in Sox First, on July 17, 2008
...official approval. "The raiders often include former intelligence and Police Officers , lawyers and people with ties to well-placed state officials. On their payrolls are judges, prosecuto...
Audit liabilty - the PwC case
in Sox First, on July 12, 2008
... clearly resolved. Just further confirmation that accountant liability has turned into a picnic for lawyers.
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No more corporate crime hardball
in Sox First, on July 10, 2008
...attorneys and company executives under scrutiny by prosecutors. It's a big win for business and lawyers who have argued such sanctions were coercive and unconstitutional. More details in the Was...
Good (Travel) News for Wesley Snipes
in Hidden Travel Gems, on July 5, 2008
...news for actor Wesley Snipes . He has been allowed to travel abroad for work (do movies) while his lawyers are left behind to fight his tax convictions .
Federal judge William Terrell Hodges o...
Sarbanes-Oxley boosts shredding business
in Sox First, on July 2, 2008
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Plenty has been written about Sarbanes-Oxley being a licence to print money for accountants. But it's also done wonderful things for the shredding business, according to this news repo...
Clueless about XBRL
in Sox First, on July 2, 2008
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Last month, I did a blog entry looking at how accountants were not ready for Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) which is supposed to make it easier for investors to analyze financial ...
The future of eXpresso
in The CIO Weblog, on July 1, 2008
...;s a significant insight of Langan's that most business gets done in Excel; I myself have known accountants so enamored of the program that they type their memos up in it, spurning Word. So althou...
Productivity or Lack of Productivity
in Bizinformer, on June 13, 2008
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Procrastination is a much maligned trait . Abraham Lincoln, ultra-lawyer, told young lawyers never to leave until tomorrow what could be accomplished today while his wife, Mary, was accu...
Conrad Black's last-ditch appeal
in Sox First, on June 9, 2008
...gun his appeal against the six and half year sentence for fraud and obstruction of justice with his lawyers telling the appeal judges that their client didn't get a fair trial. Still, the chanc...
CFOs' road to the top
in Sox First, on June 2, 2008
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Everyone knows that Sarbanes-Oxley has been a gold-mine for accountants. Now we have new evidence that it's also done a lot of good for chief financial officers. According to a study, finance...
Going for green with accounting
in Sox First, on May 27, 2008
With more pressure on companies to show their green credentials, environmental accounting might well become one of the hot jobs of the future. Here is a good summary of what it entails. Essentially, it's about risk management, collecting and analyzing information on materials flows and po...
Zeroing in on BAE
in Sox First, on May 22, 2008
...string of top fraud convictions against big business people is almost a required part of the CV for lawyers-turned-politicians, a nod to the public that they are on their side." Earlier this mon...
Women accountants: still a long way to the top
in Sox First, on May 20, 2008
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There might be many more female accountants than there were 30 years ago but are still under-represented in the top ranks of accounting firms, according to a new survey . The survey from the...
