Across the pond

AccountingWEB is more than just a UK team of journalists and financial and technology experts. Our US colleagues at AccountingWEB.com share their ideas and insights.

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Jan
16

Caleb Newquist, editor of Sift Media’s US online tabloid, GoingConcern.com, takes a look at some of the things you'll hear accountants say during busy season.

Oct
27
2

Sift Media publication Going Concern recently picked up a story on a retired accountant who took to b

Oct
13
4

A family reunion is taking AccountingWEB editor John Stokdyk to the United States for the next few days. There's nothing to say before he goes, but this blog will be somewhere for him to report back with random thoughts and short reports.

Oct
12

A new Big Four associate wants to find out if his career will go up in smoke after a pot possession arrest.

Aug
23

A self-proclaimed rap "gangsta" is going to jail for committing a white-collar crime: tax evasion.

Aug
15
1

Accounting professors can be a strange lot. This is known.

Aug
05
1

58-year-old Charles Shaffer has been ordered to serve two to four years in prison for stealing nearly US$400,000 from his employer to fund a nine-year-long coke habit, reports

Jul
05

Ever since Luca Pacioli published his ‘Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita’ (“Everything about Arithmetic, Geometry and Proportion”), the way accountants handle financial information and interact with their clients has been shaped by a series of technological shift

Jun
24
1

"It’s my understanding that burritos are hard to come by in London," reports Caleb Newquist from the US online tabloid site Going Concern. "The Brits have managed to survive for a number of centuries without tortillas overstuffed with sour cream and free-range pork."

Jun
01
1

US accountant Jason M. Blumer loves the way “game-changing cloud technology” is affecting the process of accounting and recently posted the following thoughts on Xero’s plans to expand into his territory.

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