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Local Accounting Firms

  • BKD
    In the last few years several local firms have been acquired, like the Hnake group, by national firms such as BKD.
  • Grant Thornton San Antonio
    Grant Thornton is one of the large national firms occupying the size ladder below the Big Four.l
  • Padgett Stratemann is now RMS
    As San Antonio becomes a bigger player in Texas Business, more national firms are entering this market. A national firm does not start from zero. RMS (http://rsmus.com/) purchased Padgett. This gives the buyer a large client base to start with. Typically the local partners have made a handsome profit on their time at the firm. But seeking to recoup the investment, the buyer typically raises fees knowing some business will be lost. RMS has re located from North Loop 410 to 1604 and 281. Renee Foshee, a tax expert with the firm, is the current SA CPA Society President.
  • Turner Cleveland PC
    Terry Cleveland has addressed our students. Two of our graduates are employed with at this firm.
  • weaver CPA
    Weaver is one of the largest Texas based Accounting Firms.
  • Hill and Ford CPAs
    Kim Ford has addressed our students. She has expanded her practice from tax and write up to forensic investigation and court testimony.
  • Fisher Herbst and Kemble P. C.
    Bruce Howard who was on our Business Advisory Council was the Officer Manger for this firm.
  • Ridout Barrett CPAs
    Tony Ridout has visited and addressed our students many times. We have placed graduates with Ridout for several years.

Financial Consulting Firms

  • Aventine Hill Partners, Inc.
    Beth Hair CEO founded Aventine in San Antonio in 2009. The firm now has offices in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston. She formerly was with RGP.
  • Resource Global Professionals
    Susan Hough has been to campus and spoken to our students. She is the San Antonio Manager of RGP. RGP and Aventine are not CPA firms. Instead they offer contract specialists for firms needing specific tasks such as compliance or Controllerships.

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    Learn about the accounting review mateirals!

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  • Foreign Affairs
    :Published by the Council on Foreign Relations
  • Institute for the Study of War
    The Institute for the Study of War advances an informed understanding of military affairs through reliable research, trusted analysis, and innovative education. We are committed to improving the nation’s ability to execute military operations and respond to emerging threats in order to achieve U.S. strategic objectives. ISW is a non-partisan, non-profit, public policy research organization.
  • Stratfor
    This Austin, TX based site was begun by an ex Texas State Professor.

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    This is an organization that sponsors the only annual Ragtime Festival in Texas. A TAMUSA student is an active member.

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March 14, 2012

A Goldman Exec Exits, Reflecting on the Lack of Integrity

Wednesday March 14, 2012

In the movie Jerry Maguire, Tom Cruise plays a conflicted sports agent. He writes an essay that the client, not the firm's interest should be front and center. He loses his job as a result. 

Today Greg Smith published a similar essay, in the New York Times no less. Be sure to click on the hyper link in the second paragraph to read the actual essay. 

Smith notes that the firm refers to clients as Muppets. The idea is to use the clients to make as much money for GS as possible. It has been cyically observed that GS only has one client, Goldman. Now a firm exec has said so publicly.

Some of the graduate students are preparing cases for SWTLC regarding ethical behavior at all levels. Here is Gordon Gecko on display, greed is good, and short term greed means putting the firm ahead of the client. This has always been the problem, who's the client. Is it the firm the underwriter takes public, the client who buys the offering, or the firm itself?  Bear Stearns and  Lehman, evaporated in this same climate as did Enron and Worldcom. Merrill Lynch was saved by a sale  one hour before Lehman collapsed. Yesterday the XLF index of banks soared as the FED anounced who made the cut and who did not. This is an interesting event as JP Morgan soars on news of a stock buy back. 

Notice the reference to derivatives. We will be studying this later in Intermed Accounting. 

Posted at 08:31 AM in A & M San Antonio, Ethics |

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