Mr. Bisgay is a certified public accountant and was employed in the Financial Services Industry Practice at the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1989 to 2001, most recently as a Senior Manager.

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New Constructs includes off-balance sheet debt in all of its reports and adjusts the reported earnings of all companies for this misleading accounting practice.

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William had significant income from an accounting practice, while day to day operation of the farm were handled by Randall.

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"The market actually affords career opportunities, because businesses are highly focused on solving problems and if you can help solve those problems you become integral to the organization, " says Jeff Summer, principal with PricewaterhouseCoopers and lead of the accounting firm's talent-management practice.

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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.

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There have always been concerns that a particular pension accounting practice is either opaque, or deceptive, or impractical, or all of the above.

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By becoming a thought leader, which for the greater majority of accounting firms is the optimal business development methodology, you can seriously super-charge your practice.

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The accepted practice in bank accounting is to set up significant loan-loss reserves only when the commitment is availed of and the arrangement becomes an on-balance-sheet loan.

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