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want to learn how to manage your in-box and minimize distractions and interruptions?

by rick telberg

it all starts with checking your e-mail less often

several times every day, workers across the country ask themselves the same questions: “should i finish what i’m doing? or should i take a quick peek at my e-mail in-box?”

read the rest of the article at bmighty, here…

as if tax season wasn’t bad enough for accountants

in great britain, an osama bin laden follower has pleaded guilty and been jailed for (it says here) “recklessly encouraging terrorist attacks” against accountants. read more →

20 percent of gp customers have moved to the dynamics erp suite from quickbooks.

or, at least, that’s what microsoft found in doing gp customer research, said jon pratt, senior director at microsoft and gp guru. read the full article.

but i tend to agree with “doug from northern michigan,” who comments: “there is absolutely no way that small businesses are going to migrate from a $200 user license of qb to $11,000 and up for gp licensing. in addition, most cpas that i work with don’t support gp and don’t plan to. i have one customer that says even with java-memory issues and qbw size issues, what else can you use for $200 per seat to run your $15million business on? microsoft is seriously kidding itself.”

maybe auditors can’t afford to be in the auditing business alone.

reflecting on the $522-million verdict against bdo, which makes the global network liable for the work of the u.s. firm, the influential floyd norris (pictured) of the new york times wonders if it’s time to allow outside ownership of auditing firms.

he writes:

“…it is likely to be necessary to revise laws that now say auditing firms must be controlled by auditors — and by local auditors at that. there is no comparable rule that you have to be a banker to own stock in a bank, or an engineer to own shares of a car company. but there are rules that such companies need some directors who are independent of management.

“the time is coming when big international accounting firms may have to be organized in the same way as the big international companies they audit.”

see floyd’s article here.

i’ve long said that assurance services are already managed and marketed like insurance. so, why not follow the securitization of risk to it’s logical extent?

go ahead, ask fraud expert gary zeune, cpa, about elliot spitzer.

not surprisingly, he has some thoughts, all of them trenchant…

1. perfect example of how really smart people do really stupid stuff. so don’t ever think someone is too smart not to steal, embezzle, kickback scheme. (can anyone say: “tom coughlin, no. 2 person at wal-mart and and head of security who stole $500,000 of gift cards?”)
2. did you see that the fbi wasn’t even investigating prostitution? they were looking into unusual cash transfers his bank had reported on sars (suspicious activity reports).
3. powerful people sometimes don’t think the rules apply to them.
4. he didn’t think he’d get caught (same reason we speed when driving).

but it could take a new trial to decide the issue.bdo international may have to pay part of $522 million in damages that its allied u.s. firm owes a bank, an appeals court ruled wednesday.

the trial judge found that banco espirito santo failed to prove that bdo international managed and controlled bdo seidman, which limited the judgment only to chicago-based bdo seidman. but the 3rd district court of appeal disagreed, saying that enough evidence was presented at trial to prove the relationship.

“the victory today means that ultimately bdo international, along with all the bdo member firms and offices worldwide, will be jointly liable for the $521 million judgment against bdo seidman,” said a banco espirito santo attorney.

more at the miami herald and law.com.