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...accounting profession saw the turmoil coming and tried to prepare. Peat Marwick Main, a Big Eight firm, ran week-long seminars during 1987 for its 3,900 staffers. Yet even the experts are often stymied. One reason is that many rules remain up in the air. Congress is long overdue in passing a technical-corrections act to deal with more than 300 ambiguities and errors...
While many men still simply accept their wives' careers, others are assuming a more active role by attending business functions and parties with them. John Shutkin, a New York attorney with the accounting firm of Peat Marwick Main, often makes social rounds at the side of his wife, Barnard College President Ellen Futter. "Sometimes I feel like Caesar's wife," % admits Shutkin. "I've got to watch my behavior." Still, he notes that men in his position are often the beneficiaries of a double standard. "I suspect that I get a lot of Brownie points that I probably...
...began getting suspicious a year ago, when Charles Gerrell, an Arkansas mortgage broker who was later convicted with Colino of conspiracy to commit fraud, demanded payment of a commission for arranging a construction loan. A spot internal audit discovered that no such payment was due. Further auditing by Peat Marwick revealed other oddities. In early December 1986, on his return from a jaunt to Australia, Colino found his eighth-floor office sealed off by armed guards. He was escorted from the building shouting, "I'm taking names! I'm going to kick butts when I get back in power...
After graduating, Marphatia obtained an M.A. in accounting from Northeastern University. He then worked for three years for the Boston accounting firm Peat, Marwick and Mitchell as tax consultant. He entered Harvard Law School in the fall...
...companies like Harvard grads; last year one-third of the 200 interviewed students got job offers, according to Chernick. "We've had great success over the past years and we have Harvard graduates currently at the partner level," says a representative from Peat, Marwick Mitchell. "We hire a lot of Harvard people and are very disposed to Harvard students...