The SEC put out an FAQ from the Office of Chief Accountant in February 2009.
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The SEC put out a Frequently Asked Questions document from the Office of Chief Accountant in February 2009.
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SEC's chief accountant, has conceded that not everyone thinks American standards are better.
Lynn Turner, the former SEC Chief Accountant, used to be the one you could count on to criticize the audit industry publicly.
Mr. LYNN TURNER (Former Chief Accountant, SEC): I would almost say that the title on the letter could just about be pick a number, any number.
Turner, former SEC chief accountant quoted by Bloomberg, March 13.
Richard Causey, Enron's former chief accountant, wrote in to object.
Chief Accountant is a former Deloitte partner, Jim Kroeker.
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On Monday TransTec's former chief accountant, Max Ayriss, told the BBC that a five-figure sum had been involved in several different applications for DTI grants by Mr Robinson's businesses.
Now, the brothers -- plus a sister, who is Hope Group's chief accountant -- want to parlay their enterprise into a global company, with holdings in banking, property and electronics.
However UKIP MEP Marta Andreasen, a former Chief Accountant of the European Commision, said the decision to give discharge to the budget was a political one, not based on reality.
In an interview with the BBC, Marta Andreasen - who was ditched from her post as chief accountant at the European Commission in May - says the Commission's numbers fail even to meet minimum accounting standards.
"Mary Schapiro will join a long list of SEC commissioners who have been forgotten with the passage of time, " is how former SEC chief accountant Lynn Turner put it in an email exchange with me last week.
As Lynn Turner, the SEC's former chief accountant, points out, much of what the act requires is covered by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 and by the Treadway Commission's recommendations on firms' internal controls, which date back to the early 1990s.
It is likely that William Webster, the accounting board appointee, and Robert Herdman, the SEC's chief accountant, who had signed off on the appointment despite Mr Webster's admission of involvement in a company being sued by shareholders, will now admit that their positions are also untenable.
For Mintz, a 39-year-old accountant and former chief executive of a cooperage (wine-barrel-making business) and Twelftree, 38, with a background in construction and small-scale wine exporting, the change is music to their ears.
Mr Millican, who is a trained chartered accountant, has been interim chief executive since the death of Richard Ackroyd in October 2012.
While a keyword job search for "certified public accountant" might turn up ads seeking a small-business chief financial officer who is also a CPA, semantic-search software would intuit that the user is looking for accounting jobs and list only those openings.
Oliver's father David Gill, 52, is an accountant who joined United as finance director in 1997 and took over as chief executive six years later following the departure of Peter Kenyon to Chelsea.
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