Accounting and law firms volunteered a free first year in order to bolster the city's economy.
Most schools instruct business students in finance, accounting, law, and they often provide a strong alumni network.
Mandatory continuing professional education (CPE) in tax is not the same as generalized training in accounting or law.
Congress created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley accounting reform law in 2002.
The big accounting, law, securities and insurance companies aim mainly at the wealthy.
The presence of a highly regarded accounting or law firm is a factor worth considering but undue reliance should not be placed upon their involvement.
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But, China continues to welcome and encourage foreign investment, and there are many accounting, law firms and other experts that can help navigate the bureaucracy.
As of March the IRS was investigating 70 accounting, law, investment banking and other firms for peddling abusive "technical shelters" to corporations and rich individuals.
Since March, it has issued 132 summonses to eight accounting, law and investment banking firms demanding they turn over customer lists, opinion letters and other documents.
Earlier this decade, KPMG and other accounting companies and law firms marketed shelters that produced billions in bogus capital losses, which rich taxpayers used to offset their real capital gains.
Investors frequently make the mistake of believing the retention of a major accounting firm or law firm by a hedge fund somehow guarantees or suggests that everything is on the up and up.
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While such a toe-the-line decision would generate sighs of relief in the boardrooms of otherwise culpable investment banks, accounting firms and law firms, it is the groans of disappointment at the kitchen tables of victimized shareholders that should ultimately resonate more loudly.
Since drilling wells is the only means of finding oil and natural gas, IDCs essentially amount to what any other industry would be able to deduct as a part of its cost of goods sold, a concept of accounting and tax law as old as the tax code itself.
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Some accounting, consulting and law firms are also scrapping the billable hour, often at the request of their clients.
The cost to companies of these unplanned absences can be staggering, especially in businesses like law or accounting, where professionals bill hourly.
It is no coincidence that the majority of reasonable compensation cases involve a professional services corporation, such as law, accounting, and consulting firms.
Bank of America has large back-office operations in the Dallas area and the city is home to large law and accounting firms as well as professionals who serve the energy industry.
But, although Longbridge plays a big role in the local economy, it is the expansion of services such as the conference trade, law and accounting which have been the big job generators in the west Midlands in recent years.
His target audience includes professional services firms in law, accounting, market research and real-estate, hoping that LinkedIn can help their partners prospect for clients, as well as banks, pharmaceutical companies and medical-device makers that see LinkedIn as a way of developing better sales contacts.
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They must keep strictly to the law, observe accounting rules scrupulously and be wholly transparent.
These transactions were developed and marketed by an interlocking network of commercial interests, including leading law firms, accounting firms and investment banks.
And rare now is the law office or accounting firm which does not make some claim for its skills in lobbying the European institutions on clients' behalf.
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Rather than trusting a separate law firm, accounting firm, money manager and trust company, a wealthy family can count on an investment office to orchestrate estate planning, tax, philanthropic and investment strategies.
Rather than trusting a separate law firm, accounting firm, money manager and trust company to get it right, a wealthy family can count on an investment office to orchestrate estate planning, tax, philanthropic and investment strategies to its maximum benefit.
The more likely explanation here involves a mix of factors: SOX procedures and the incentives of professionals and accounting firms, the shifting focus of law enforcement, and a more subtle shift in the manner in which public companies may be reacting to accounting controversies.
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After the successful prosecutions of accounting fraud at WorldCom (now owned by Verizon) and Enron, said Jonathan Streeter at the Columbia Law School conference last month, the number of accounting scandals at large corporations fell dramatically.
How can a rogue trader and risky transactions survive risk management systems absolutely required by Dodd-Frank, existing law, compliance, regulation and accounting standards?
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Sarbanes-Oxley, the often-reviled law that requires enhanced disclosure of accounting practices, seems to have put a stop to the backdating practice after its passage in 2002.
Gerstein Fisher is neither a law firm nor a certified public accounting firm and no portion of the blog content should be construed as legal or accounting advice.
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