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Berkshire Hathaway and Swiss Re: It Wasn’t Really A Win-Win

Like a lot of things Buffett and Berkshire, there's more to the Swiss Re dispute resolution story than the snappy repartee tells you.

May 8, 2013 Like

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McKenna Writes For Accountancy On Offshore Profit Shifting By Multinationals

Multinationals are under increasing scrutiny for income shifting and offshoring profits. I reported on the issues and U.S. legislative status in December in Accountancy, a magazine for the...

May 1, 2013 Like

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How KPMG Explains Scott London To The Accounting Professors

Here's how KPMG Chairman John Veihmeyer explained Scott London's inside trading and the firm's response to accounting professors, an important stop in the audit industry supply chain.

Apr 29, 2013 Like

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Speaking Engagements/Confe rences

Here's where I'll be and where I've been. I've added a link to the text from my speech at Texas Tech this past week and a link to an interview in March with Broc Romanek at TheCorporateCounsel.net...

Apr 27, 2013 Like

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McKenna Writes For “Investor Advocate” From Law Firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman

BLBG publishes the Advocate for Institutional Investors, a quarterly newsletter which contains reporting and analysis of the latest securities and corporate law issues. The Advocate often features...

Apr 23, 2013 Like

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Scott London Subverted Sarbanes-Oxley: Big Four Mock Audit Partner Rotation

I noticed a small little thing in one of the first stories about Scott London. As I tried to research and write about it, I waited for someone else to pick up on it. (No one else did.) Scott London...

Apr 22, 2013 Like

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Early Returns: Scott London, KPMG and Another Partner Trading On Inside Information

This is the fourth big insider trading case in the least few years against a senior tenured partner that betrayed the public's trust. In none of the cases did the firm's "extensive" and...

Apr 15, 2013 Like

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JPMorgan Chase, And Dimon, Starting To Sweat About Everything

I put two new columns up at Forbes recently that talk about JPMorgan, PwC, Senator Levin's "Whale" hearings, and all the other stuff JPMorgan and Jamie Dimon are really worried about.

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E&Y, Their Audit Client Wal-Mart, and Value Pricing

This post about Ernst & Young's aggressive tax advice to audit client Wal-Mart was originally posted October 29, 2007. It's worth everyone - I'm talking to you SEC and PCAOB - taking another look...

Mar 23, 2013 Like

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A New e-Book: Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway: Corporate Governance and The Sokol Affair, Part One

This compilation, Part One, covers the period from April 4 - when the David Sokol scandal hit - to May 3, 2011 when I attended the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Video Posted: McKenna Speaks At AAA-Accounting Program Leaders Group Annual Meeting

I'm in San Diego at the Accounting Program Leaders Group/Federation of Schools of Accountancy annual seminar. I spoke Sunday on the profession and its professionals.

Mar 19, 2013 Like

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McKenna Interviewed By Public Relations Site Gorkana

Gorkana covers the latest industry news for the PR and corporate communications community. I spoke to Social Media Executive Ebunola Adenipekun last fall about the evolution of this blog, its...

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Deloitte And Wall Street Journal Exclusive For Sponsored Content

The Wall Street Journal has been accepting sponsored content, in an exclusive contract with Deloitte, for a while for its CFO Journal, CIO Journal and now a new publication, Risk & Compliance...

Mar 14, 2013 Like

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How Deloitte US May Be Held Liable For ChinaCast Fraud

What's different about this Chinese fraud lawsuit is that it names a US Big Four firm as a defendant. Not only has that not been done before but the US firms have traditionally been able to...

Feb 28, 2013 Like

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McKenna Speaks to Market Technicians Association Chicago

On February 19, 2013, I spoke to the Chicago Chapter of the Market Technicians Association. The topic was, “Risk 2013: Protecting Your Trading Accounts From Fraud”.

Feb 20, 2013 Like

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Tax Pays: HP Pays Ernst & Young Two Million To Testify

The issue of tax avoidance by corporations is a hot one. In the US and in the UK, legislators and pundits seeking "tax justice" have changed the discussion from one of tax breaks that stimulate...

Feb 18, 2013 Like

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McKenna Speaks At AAA-Accounting Program Leaders Group Annual Meeting

I'm in San Diego at the Accounting Program Leaders Group/Federation of Schools of Accountancy annual seminar. I spoke Sunday on the profession and its professionals.

Feb 11, 2013 Like

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Keeping Up With PwC’s Audit Clients

You can’t throw a rock at a fraud or scandal nowadays without hitting three, sometimes all four, of the largest global audit firms providing one service or another. The Big Four global accounting...

Feb 7, 2013 Like

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A Summary of Writing on the “Independent” Foreclosure Reviews and the AG Mortgage Settlement

Here's a compilation - updated - with links for the columns/posts I've written about the mortgage servicer foreclosure reviews mandated by the April 2011 SEC/Fed consent orders, the April 2012...

Feb 1, 2013 Like

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Internal Audit At JPMorgan Chase: Not High Profile Enough Yet

I thought after all that had happened at JPMorgan Chase last year - for example, billions in losses from the "whale" trade, investigations into Libor and AML illegal acts, multiple lawsuits...

Jan 31, 2013 Like

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McKenna Speaks At 2013 AAA Audit Section Midyear Conference

I was in New Orleans this past long Martin Luther King Day weekend to speak at the American Accounting Association Auditing Section Midyear Conference. Here are my slides and text of my remarks.

Jan 21, 2013 Like

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Will PwC Continue To Ensure Integrity of Oscar Voting? You Get What You Pay For

PwC's professional role as the auditor of the Academy's financial statements and reviewer and signer of its tax return is a big deal to the Academy's members, its grantees, and to the IRS. However,...

Jan 13, 2013 Like

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Foreclosure Settlement Shuts Down Reviews: Banks Will Continue Business As Usual

It's easy to forget, with all the propaganda being published by major media, why these Fed/OCC consent decrees were issued in the first place. The fact that a borrower may be in default does not...

Jan 13, 2013 Like

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e-Books On MF Global, AIG, Goldman Sachs, PwC and Careers

Looking for some interesting beach reading? Download one of my e-books to your Kindle or other e-reader. They're an easy and affordable way to sample some of my writing, organized by theme across...

Jan 2, 2013 Like

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My Top Twenty Favorites From 2012

Because I'm so tired, tired of waiting...

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Speaking Engagements/Confe rences

Here's where I'll be and where I've been.

Dec 27, 2012 Like

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PwC and Thomson Reuters: Too Close For Comfort

Here's the thing...The perception of auditor independence is as important, or maybe even more important, than the fact of auditor independence. This is not new.

Dec 26, 2012 Like

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Unaudited! Not Just A China Problem So How Do We Address It?

It’s sexier for the media to focus on audit failures by inscrutable China-based Big Four audit firms than the general failure of auditors all over the world to protect investors from fraud....

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Berkshire Hathaway and Swiss Re: It Wasn’t Really A Win-Win

McKenna Writes For Accountancy On Offshore Profit Shifting By Multinationals

How KPMG Explains Scott London To The Accounting Professors

Speaking Engagements/Confe rences

McKenna Writes For “Investor Advocate” From Law Firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman

Scott London Subverted Sarbanes-Oxley: Big Four Mock Audit Partner Rotation

Early Returns: Scott London, KPMG and Another Partner Trading On Inside Information

JPMorgan Chase, And Dimon, Starting To Sweat About Everything

E&Y, Their Audit Client Wal-Mart, and Value Pricing

A New e-Book: Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway: Corporate Governance and The Sokol Affair, Part One

Video Posted: McKenna Speaks At AAA-Accounting Program Leaders Group Annual Meeting

McKenna Interviewed By Public Relations Site Gorkana

Deloitte And Wall Street Journal Exclusive For Sponsored Content

How Deloitte US May Be Held Liable For ChinaCast Fraud

McKenna Speaks to Market Technicians Association Chicago

Tax Pays: HP Pays Ernst & Young Two Million To Testify

McKenna Speaks At AAA-Accounting Program Leaders Group Annual Meeting

Keeping Up With PwC’s Audit Clients

A Summary of Writing on the “Independent” Foreclosure Reviews and the AG Mortgage Settlement

Internal Audit At JPMorgan Chase: Not High Profile Enough Yet

McKenna Speaks At 2013 AAA Audit Section Midyear Conference

Will PwC Continue To Ensure Integrity of Oscar Voting? You Get What You Pay For

Foreclosure Settlement Shuts Down Reviews: Banks Will Continue Business As Usual

e-Books On MF Global, AIG, Goldman Sachs, PwC and Careers

My Top Twenty Favorites From 2012

Feliz Navidad, Buon Natale, Joyeux Noël,Vrolijk Kerstfeest, 良いお年をお迎えください, God Jul

Speaking Engagements/Confe rences

PwC and Thomson Reuters: Too Close For Comfort

Unaudited! Not Just A China Problem So How Do We Address It?

Getco Acquires Knight Capital: No Auditor Was Harmed In The Process

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