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...unlikely model for pristine accountancy, the congress's chief priority was restoring the public's image of accountants as honest and boring. Unusually animated IFAC President Ren? Ricol took charge of the defense, exhorting fellow double-entry doyens to share "a passion for the quality of accounts and their audit; for taxation, for information systems, for management controls and systems." I liked Ricol, whose public speaking style is reminiscent of the electrifying Jean Chr?tien, who is not an accountant but is Canadian. When I gave Ricol the chance to bash greedy Americans for besmirching accounting, he demurred...
While this marks an 8 percent improvement over the first audit in 1998, it is a decline of 14 percent from last year. Officials say rainy weather conditions and a different geographic sample from last year may explain the increase...
Gogan said he was not bothered by last week’s waste audit, attributing it to the nature of the sample. Last year’s audit drew heavily from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. “Radcliffe has a remarkable recycling program, and I think they might have skewed the results a little,” he said. “Also, the weather both on the sample collection days and on the day of the audit was rainy. Everything was a little damper and denser than normal...
Gogan said this year’s audit showed the same general breakdown of trash as previous years. By weight, Harvard’s waste contains 29 percent recyclable paper, 14 percent recyclable cans and bottles, 36 percent non-recyclable compostables and 21 percent non-recyclable non-compostables...
...audit also revealed just how much students eat in their rooms: Much of the trash from student residences was spoiled food and snack packaging...