Auditors who trust their clients can feel freer to be more skeptical of their financial reporting.
"It was very important that I became more open about whether someplace else could be a better fit,” says first-time CFO Beth Schiavo after 23 years at EY.
After 28 years with Arthur Andersen and 14 with Marriott, the acquisition of Starwood Hotels serves as a resounding last hurrah.
After 15 years in the business, a finance chief describes how audit firms operate, manage growth, and pay their partners.
Lawyers beware: the accountants are coming after your business.
Stephen Chipman, the CEO of Grant Thornton, talks about the firm's attempt to stick to its knitting and the nation's quest for a more rational financial reporting system and tax code.
The margins in auditing are not marginal.
Merger fever in the accounting industry has clients asking: How few is too few?
