Archive for February, 2007

Exam

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

I am having my CPA exam tomorrow. stress nih…

Tiap kali mo buka buku tax bawaannya langsung ngatuk..pengen tidur ‘mulu (now you know that’s how stressed i am ><). So hari ini g maksa-in buat belajar di public library aja (pikir g..kan kalo disana nga mungkin tidur ceritanya). Pas nyampe library, mejanya udah penuh semua..so g belajar di sofa aja.. tapi cuma bisa last for 2 hours..ngantuk berat..beneran g bisa tidur on the spot!

So g cabut dari library trus ke deliferance buat beli kopi..untungnya disana banyak meja kosong, plus lagi orang yang di depan meja g juga kayaknya lagi belajar (soalnya di mejanya juga banyak kertas2). Nga tau udah duduk berapa jam..tau2 hujan.. kan g duduknya di luar (abis nga tahan AC), anginnya kenceng banget..g nga tahan..akhirnya pulang deh..begitu pulang yang ada langsung tidur!! kacau >_+

bangun2 udah malam.. nyalain tv..eh lagi ada drama korea. lucu banget deh filmnya..judulnya my boyfriend is type B. Sambil belajar sambil nonton. (belajarnya pas iklan doang) =P.

gt deh..my exam preparation.. hiks…

btw, client g yang obsesi berat ama g itu kayaknya udah balik dari liburan panjangnya..abis kemarin jumat sore tau2 dia telp g 5x!! g nga angkat, soalnya hp g ketumpuk ama kertas2 gt. pas g check hp g..udah ada miscall banyak banget.

want to bet?! g rasa besok dia bakal telp ber-puluh2 kali krn g nga bakalan angkat telp g (lagi ujian gt lho!). EGP deh..bete-in banget orangnya soalnya. plus g curiganya dia nga ada temen ngobrol di kantor barunya, makanya telp and nge-rong2 g terus..BT! 

anyway, wish me luck yah! >_+

New year

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Happy Oink Oink Year!

The good thing about chinese new year is that I finally find time to catch up with my sleep. Friday we were working half day and by half day for me it means go back on 5.30pm  >_+ (not at 1.00 pm as other normal people have)

but anyway, i am still grateful to have this long weekend..been doing nothing except eat, sleep and more sleep. Totally pigged out (speaking about celebrating the spirit of pig year) =P

Called my parents, sister and brothers.. it’s been 5 years (i think?! can’t remember ), that i didn’t celebrate chinese new year with my family. (mental note : got to call them more often)

Today, i got a missed call from office on 11 in the morning (when it’s holiday, 11 a.m is considered morning, right?!). I wonder who called me, so i checked the office’s phone directory.. turn out it was from a supervisor from other division.  The first thing i think of .. "is today still holiday? or maybe we only have 1 day holiday on Monday?!", so i checked the sametime connect.. no body is online.. so, it is STILL holiday.  I was like #%^&#?! (*speechless*)…

Anyway, this long weekend has been great. no phone call from that demanding client (who chasing me like crazy just because she wants to have a long holiday after cny!), no ‘friendly reminder’ deadline from HK..until that stupid phone call. ><

Tomorrow, need to go back to work…

Happy chinese new year everyone!

The 2007 Vault Accounting Firm Prestige Rankings are here

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
RANK FIRM SCORE PREV.
RANK*
HEADQUARTERS
1 Ernst & Young 7.566 3 New York, NY
2 PricewaterhouseCoopers 7.438 1 New York, NY
3 Deloitte & Touche 7.376 2 New York, NY
4 KPMG 6.890 3 New York, NY
5 Grant Thornton 6.474 5 Chicago, IL
6 BDO Seidman 6.128 6 Chicago, IL
7 Moss Adams 6.042 8 Seattle, WA
8 J.H. Cohn 6.041 12 Roseland, NJ
9 Crowe Chizek 6.015 9 South Bend, IN
10 Plante & Moran 5.756 11 Southfield, MI
11 BKD 5.678 15 Springfield, MO
12 Cherry, Bekaert & Holland 5.632 20 Richmond, VA
13 Clifton Gunderson 5.627 13 Peoria, IL
14 McGladrey & Pullen 5.600 7 Bloomington, MN
15 Eisner 5.457 14 New York, NY
16 LarsonAllen 5.412 10 Minneapolis, MN
17 Rothstein, Kass & Co. 5.270 16 Roseland, NJ
18 Parente Randolph 5.162 NR Pennsylvania, PA
19 Vitale Caturano & Company 5.069 NR Boston, MA
20 Reznick Group 5.000 NR Bethesda, MD
21 Weiser 4.919 18 New York, NY
22 Eide Bailly 4.810 NR Fargo, ND
23 WithumSmith+Brown 4.556 19 Princeton, NJ
24 Amper Politziner & Mattia 4.525 NR Edison, NJ
25 Virchow, Krause & Co. 4.396 17 Madison, WI
26 Anchin, Block & Anchin 4.242 NR New York, NY
27 The Rehmann Group 4.191 NR Saginaw, MI
28 bmc 4.091 NR Wyomissing, PA
29 Wipfli 4.059 NR Wausau, WI
30 Kennedy & Coe 4.053 NR Salina, KS
31 Elliott Davis 3.929 NR Greenville, SC
32 Mahoney Cohen & Co. 3.875 NR New York, NY
33 Berdon 3.857 NR New York, NY
34 Friedman, Alpren & Green 3.783 NR New York, NY
35 Dixon Hughes 3.750 NR High Point, NC
36 Citrin Cooperman & Co. 3.741 NR New York, NY
37 Rachlin Cohen & Holtz 3.684 NR Miami, FL
38 Marcum & Kleigman 3.522 NR Melville, NY
39 Goodman & Co. 3.500 NR Norfolk, VA
40 Frank, Rimerman & Co. 3.474 NR San Jose, CA

*Previous rankings refer to the rankings published in the 2006 Edition of the Vault Guide to the Top Accounting Firms, published in June 2005.