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Audit Board Finds Fault with BDO Seidman
The accounting firm should have done more work to support its audit opinions for five of its clients, according to the PCAOB. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board found audit deficiencies at five of BDO Seidman's clients in its latest round...

Whistle-blowback
A new study finds that women suffer more retaliation than men for exposing guilty bosses. Women whistle-blowers drew much acclaim earlier this decade. Enron, WorldCom, and even the FBI were exposed by fearless females who had seen enough and called out...

"In the Money" or "at the Money"?
A tech company and its former COO settle charges that they falsely represented the grant dates of employee stock option. The Securities and Exchange Commission and Marvell Technology Group and its co-founder settled SEC charges that the company and the...

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How do we get better at what we do?
I recently read a blog posted by Seth Godin (a very popular marketing blog) and a question in his blog resonated with me. He asked a very simple question: “Are you better at what you do than you were a month or two ago?” We can and should all ask ourselves...

Outsourcing Firewall Management
A Cost and Feature Effective Approach for Businesses By Randy Johnston, Executive VP, K2 Enterprises, LLC There are excellent software and hardware solutions available for protecting a business’s connections to outside networks. This category of security...

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Business case - do I eat it or?
It’s a well known fact that IT projects fail every so often. Standish Group has been researching the success and failure factors of IT projects for a decade and a half, and they publish their results in their CHAOS report every two years or so....

Am I Too Big for Microsoft Dynamics NAV – second try
Four Myths About Microsoft Dynamics NAV That Unnecessarily Scare Off Larger Organizations [This is a repost of my originally posted column at MSDynamicsWorld.com, and I include it here to clear the confusion my last post introduced. Sorry for that, folks...