The government wrapped up the week with a lump of coal for anyone caught hiding money offshore—especially if your name is leaked in another Paradise Papers. The news was pretty much ignored by most media, with the exception of Canadian Accountant, but may have far-reaching repercussions.
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When it came time for me to consider my career path, I had found accounting also came easily to me, did an accounting major, followed by auditing for a Big 4 firm, then moved into investment banking, initially as a credit analyst. In both these initial roles the development of sound judgment was
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Instead, it comes down to the nuance of accounting rules and the terms of the company's loans. Bankruptcy isn't out of the question, they say, but it may not be the inevitable outcome the company has suggested. It might take more than a rate cut to set off the “cascade” of bad news that SCANA has said
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Heading into the 2018 mid-term elections, half of registered U.S. voters said they would prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress, the biggest advantage for the party in congressional preference surveys since 2008. Thirty-nine percent of registered voters polled said Republicans who currently control
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Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Donald Trump for the second time in four days, this time to thank the Central Intelligence Agency for information leading to the breakup of a suspected Islamic State cell. The information helped disrupt a group that had been planning to blow up Kazan
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