Accounting TV Shows Wed Like to See
July 9, 2015 4:31 PM
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Add Men
Hotshot CPAs working at a Big Eight firm in 1960s Manhattan vie with each other to make partner, date the young secretaries and smoke unfiltered cigarettes (indoors!) while juggling three-martini lunches with clients and unhappy families back home.
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Game of Loans
Competing kingdoms of FASB and IASB wage war over standards for loan impairments as they struggle to reclaim the Iron Throne of Convergence before the gory, violence-filled Red Merger wipes out their stakeholders.
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Auditings Got Talent
Celebrity judges watch as audit firm personnel and internal auditors perform amazing feats of scoping, sampling, crossfooting, confirming and more, while also making sure that inventory and revenues arent overstated by the shows producers.
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Accounting Scandal
Olivia is the go-to person to contact whenever an SEC investigation threatens to reveal the improprieties in a clients books, but she has a secret of her own: a clandestine affair with the managing partner of a Big Four firm.
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Bookkeeping Bad
Accounting teacher Walter White turns to a life of crime to support his family. With former-student-turned-intern Jesse, he cooks the books at franchise clients all across the Southwest.
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Green ACRS
High-flying cost segregation consultant relocates from a Park Avenue office with his glamorous Hungarian wife to a ramshackle rural practice where they have to deal with zany characters and their depreciation issues, along with a pet pig named Arnold.
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Law and Order: IRS Criminal Investigation
Tax fraud investigators with the IRS visit fictitious addresses in New York City to quiz tax delinquents about missing return cases, while working with prosecutors to make sure the charges stick until the climactic courtroom battle where a key witness will invariably suffer an emotional breakdown during dramatic testimony.
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CSI: Forensic Accounting
Las Vegas is the setting where a quirky team of high-rolling Certified Fraud Examiners investigate some gory financial records, dissecting the transactions to detect where theyve been falsified by a colorful array of fraudsters, scammers and embezzlers.
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The Invoice
Celebrity judges compete for the best performers to join their accounts receivable teams where they will be coached on putting together a knockout solo plus an effective collection letter for overdue bills.
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I Love Losses
Lucy is desperate to get into Rickys nightclub act as a replacement for his ailing saxophonist, but he needs to hire an expensive musician so he can write off the extra wages and claim a loss on his taxes. With the help of special guest star Harpo Marx, Lucy succeeds in sneaking into the act, but Ricky is still able to claim a big enough tax refund so he can pay the back rent he owes to Fred and Ethel and avoid eviction.
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C*A*S*H
Hawkeye and Trapper John need to account for their poker winnings during an unexpected helicopter visit by an IRS agent to the 4077th Unit in South Korea. Luckily it turns out they can deduct their gambling losses to Hot Lips Houlihan, who had a winning streak the previous year after her breakup with Major Frank Burns. Radar kindly offers to sell his teddy bear to help them pay their back taxes.
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The Outer Brackets
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. An IRS agent discovers a time machine and takes it back to the 1950s, when tax rates were as high as 90 percent. He heads to Wall Street and begins demanding tax returns to audit, until he is captured by aliens and brought aboard their spaceship. He tries to discover if any of them have an ITIN to file their tax returns.
