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...Oscar presentations. But as this year's income tax deadline loomed, accountants were getting much more than their historic share of publicity, and a lot of it was bad. After a spectacular string of corporate failures and financial scandals in recent years, the industry that is supposed to audit company books and sniff out chicanery is under pressure from all directions...
Richard Bloch, co-founder of H&R Block, Inc., which will prepare one of every ten 1985 U.S. tax returns, on how it feels to survive an IRS audit without owing money: "It's like taking a bath. You feel good. You feel clean. You've got another year behind...
...simple--Jon Trachtman (Jim Cairns) has listed his male roommate as his wife for income tax purposes. Conveniently, Jon's roommate happens to be named Leslie (Wayne Snodgrass). After years of cheating the government out of money that, "they didn't deserve anyway," Jon is warned of an impending audit. Apparently, Leslie correctly listed his sex as male before moving in with Jon. And, IRS inspector Floyd Spinner (Mark H. Levine) is sent out to their apartment to investigate. The rest of the play is loosely based on what happens when Leslie dresses up in drag to avoid a jail...
...years of the failure of the system," says Democratic Senator James Sasser of Tennessee. "It reflects a general problem with quality, including improper selection of physicians and inadequate supervision." In response to the case, the Pentagon and Congress have undertaken several studies examining the shortcomings of military medicine. An audit of 22 medical facilities conducted last year concluded that two-thirds of the practicing doctors and nurses did not have proper "qualifications and current competence." Another study revealed that 20% of military doctors do not have licenses to practice. Throughout the entire system, misdiagnoses are common, and waiting lines...
...wife's drug purchases, for example, a programmer at a savings and loan company in Los Angeles transferred $5,000 into his personal account and tried to cover up the switch with phony debit and credit transactions. The error was picked up in a routine bank audit. Among the 15 programmers and ten students nabbed, the offenses committed most often were thefts of software and telecommunications services. The rest of the crimes were scattered among a rogues' gallery of electronic lowlife that included seven bank tellers, five unskilled laborers, two computer-company executives, a TV reporter and a former...