One firm told me off the record that their total cost including overhead, real estate and food was around $3 an hour.
Then he gave me a fierce telling-off; bit my head off, really.
"Another portfolio CEO asked me to go through a door first so he could 'watch me walk' and my superiors at the firm told me to laugh it off.
A partner in the firm told his wife's best friend, who then tipped off a columnist at The Sunday Times of London via Twitter.
Partners of the accounting firm told Mr. Valukas that at the time, Ernst had not signed off on Repo 105 on anything more than a "theoretical" level, and gave approval only of Lehman's internal policy regarding the practice.
Julie Goodway, a lawyer at the firm, told The Independent: "Unfortunately the experience of those surveyed are not one-offs.
The firm told investors Tuesday that the Internal Revenue Service declined to approve Yahoo's proposed tax-free spin-off of its $23-billion 23-billionhe Chinestakecommerce behemoth Alinaba Group.
The firm told lawyers hired by Mr Lay to look into Ms Watkins' claims that, although the accounting practices were "creative and aggressive", they were not "inappropriate from a technical standpoint".Joseph Berardino, Andersen's chief executive, admitted to Congress last month that his firm made an "error of judgment" over one of the off-balance-sheet vehicles.
Recently, the boss of one major electronics firm told a private meeting that the living room really had not changed much since the 1970s and there was a big opportunity for anyone who could pull that off.
Three of the five major accounting firms told the Securities and Exchange Commission it should put off voting on an auditor independence rule.
Stick to firm but polite, and treating this whole occasion as instructional and enlightening, not a telling off.
