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No profession has suffered a more painful drop in public esteem than accounting; in recent years accountants have been regularly criticized for failing to expose corporate shenanigans, and have been sued for allegedly certifying misleading company earnings reports. Four SEC complaints have been filed against Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., onetime...
Over the next two years a "review team" of some 50 professionals chosen by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants will visit 20 of Peat, Marwick's 107 U.S. offices and study how well employees do their job. Hanson has committed Peat, Marwick to pay the estimated $350,000 cost of the unprecedented study, and pledges that when the findings are ready they will be made available to the press. "There has been so much criticism about secrecy in the profession," he says, "that it is time we opened up to the people...
Because of that initial decision and Justice Department warnings, the legal profession has begun to pull back. At least 16 state bar associations have jettisoned their formal guidelines in the past year. The A.B.A. now endorses the "withdrawal or cancellation of all schedules of fees."
The awards were the fulfillment of Hamlisch's plan to reach the peak of his profession before his 30th birthday. In the past five years, he has scored more than a dozen films (including Bananas, Take the Money and Run, Fat City, The World's Greatest Athlete), working...
Yet to suggest that healing in the military is somehow immoral for a doctor is ridiculous. Is it less moral to treat a wounded airman or soldier than a civilian? I hardly think so. To even suggest it is an insult to the medical profession's vow to heal all...