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Enron 10Years Later<br />
Plus<br />
Choosing an Annuity<br />
Post-SOX Audit Firm Changes<br />
Marketing Advice for Small Firms<br />
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CONTENTS<br />
may<br />
24 Accounting & Auditing<br />
❙ Auditing<br />
Audit Firm Changes Post-Sarbanes Oxley:<br />
Impact on the Market for Public Company Audits<br />
By Marion E. McHugh III and Paul W. Polinski<br />
❙ Accounting<br />
Employee Stock Purchase Plans and the Calculation of<br />
Basic and Diluted Earnings per Share<br />
By Josef Rashty<br />
38 Taxation<br />
❙ Federal Taxation<br />
The Charitable Contribution of a Home:<br />
A<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=1"> Enron 10Years Later Plus Ch</a>
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<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=4"> CONTENTS may </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=5"> vol. LXXXII/no.5 6PERSPECTIVES 16IN FOCUS </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=6"> Publisher JOANNE S. BARRY Associate Publisher C</a>
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<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=8"> PERSPECTIVES standards setting Auditor In</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=9"> publisher's column Attorney General P</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=10"> (Continued from page 6) Equities Fund], submitted</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=11"> We are also concerned that if not appro- pri</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=12"> tions, the auditor may have felt a stronger loy- </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=13"> RFP process—not the replacement of the existing a</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=14"> Note that the root cause of the objec- tivity </a>
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<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=16"> inbox: letters to the editor Caution:</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=17"> </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=18"> In Focus </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=19"> ENRON Ten Years Later: Lessons to Remember By</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=20"> ed profits by $2.9 billion after taxes. According</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=21"> a call option and a put option on physical assets</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=22"> ital to the entity. Simply satisfying the com- pa</a>
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<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=24"> ures, some of which were spectacular. Its audit f</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=25"> reactions to Enron and WorldCom led some to claim</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 26" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=26"> ACCOUNTING & AUDITING auditing </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 27" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=27"> provisions can contribute to the ongoing discussi</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 28" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=28"> to change. To facilitate comparison, the authors </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 29" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=29"> interpretation, however, is that the drop in audi</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 30" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=30"> the SEC filing date from Audit Analytics and the </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=31"> that were inspected triennially over the time per</a>
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<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 33" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=33"> EXHIBIT 5 Audit Firm</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 34" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=34"> ACCOUNTING & AUDITING accounting E</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 35" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=35"> impact of ESPPs on the number of shares outstandi</a>
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<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 37" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=37"> must remain employed through the end of the offer</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 38" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=38"> year, and the stock closed at $105 at the end of </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 39" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=39"> FAE 2012 On-Site Learning FAE On-Site Learn</a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 40" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=40"> TAXATION federal taxation </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 41" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=41"> department) could potentially satisfy the charita</a>
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<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 43" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=43"> The Tax Court's conclusion on this point is </a>
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<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 45" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=45"> FAE 2012 Web Events Check </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 46" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=46"> FINANCE personal financial planning </a>
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<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 49" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=49"> When an individual finally elects to receive in</a>
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<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 52" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=52"> balance, and the amount will be solely dependent </a>
<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 53" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=53"> importantly, it will not be subject to a step- up</a>
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<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 59" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=59"> method of distributing the brochures to the targe</a>
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<a title="The CPA Journal - May 2012 page 65" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/94edbcee?page=65"> Survey respondents also indicated that they</a>
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