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December 21, 2016

Dr. Seuss Essay on Auditing Updated

Continuing my tradition of posting holiday disclaimers or what-not, here’s the intro of a funny take on Dr. Seuss by Lawrence Heim of Elm Sustainability Partners:

Oh, the jobs people work at!


Out west near Hawtch-Hawtch
there’s a Hawtch-Hawtcher Bee-Watcher. His job is to watch…
is to keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee. A bee that is watched will work harder, you see.

Well… he watched and he watched. But, in spite of his watch,
that bee didn’t work any harder. Not mawtch.

So then somebody said,
“Our old bee-watching man
just isn’t bee-watching as hard as he can.
He ought to be watched by another Hawtch-Hawtcher!
The thing that we need
is a Bee-Watcher-Watcher!”

Well…

The Bee-Watcher-Watcher watched the Bee-Watcher.
He didn’t watch well. So another Hawtch-Hawtcher
had to come in as a Watch-Watcher-Watcher!


And today all the Hawtchers who live in Hawtch-Hawtch
are watching on Watch-Watcher-Watchering-Watch,
Watch-Watching the Watcher who’s watching that bee.


You’re not a Hawtch-Watcher. You’re lucky, you see!”

Edgar: “Everything Edgar”

Recently, the SEC updated its “Everything EDGAR” page to provide additional information, including Quick Reference Guides…still needs a blog to provide info on outages in my humble opinion…

Check out Alan Dye’s blog on Section16.net about the SEC’s new procedures for setting Edgar passphrases…

Whistleblowers: Yet Another SEC Enforcement Action on Separation Agreements

The SEC’s Enforcement Division is on another whistleblower tear. On the heels of yesterday’s blog about an action involving severance agreements, here’s this settlement with SandRidge Energy over separation agreements. This WSJ article says more of these cases to come…

Broc Romanek

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