“That [she] had to go through whistle blowing procedures to get her concerns about accounting irregularities taken seriously by the Carillion board is extraordinary. So too is that the board's response was to reject an independent review and get KPMG, their pet rubber-stampers, to mark their own
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(Bloomberg) — Angry, dissatisfied voters have expressed themselves in the privacy of the voting booth and the result of the Italian election is not surprising at all, says Marco Elser, head portfolio manager at Lonsin Capital. He spoke to Daybreak Europe's Caroline Hepker and Manus Cranny in the wake
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Berning's move involves two of Greater Cincinnati's 15 largest accounting firms and has him moving up one spot. BDO is the 14th-largest accounting firm in Greater Cincinnati, with 24 local CPAs, according to the most recent Courier List. RSM ranks 13th and will have 30 local CPAs once Berning starts
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A view of the Bridge Building on the Cornell Tech campus which aims to produce through solar panels as much energy as it uses. (VINCENT TULLO/NYT).
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You may have heard of the Singularity — the moment predicted by futurists when the evolution of computers and software reaches a point that a true “artificial intelligence” is created. Beyond that, the futurists say, everything in our world will change so rapidly and so profoundly that predicting it all
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