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1. The Audit

   Business Mag Crunches Numbers, Figures It All Out

   September 27, 2006 05:42 PM

   The World Economic Forum, best known as the catering outfit that handles the annual meeting for rich people in Davos, has announced its new "global competitiveness ranking." There remains some confusion as to what a "global competitiveness ranking" is, but... Continue reading

2. The Audit

   Tom Easton on Being the First to Smell a Rat at AIG

   February 27, 2006 04:53 PM

   American International Group, Inc. recently reached a $1.6 billion settlement with the SEC and New York state authorities after a year-long investigation into accounting improprieties at the company. But while government officials take bows for their apparent success, it is... Continue reading

3. The Audit

   Why Are Journalists So Rich?

   December 30, 2005 03:21 PM

   Some people say that journalists don't know how to handle money, but this simply isn't true. I, for one, save a lot of money by asking my mother to buy my clothes. I also sleep on a floor in the... Continue reading

4. The Audit

   Forbes Elbows Weekly Reader Aside

   December 13, 2005 11:47 AM

   For that perfect combination of intellectual gravitas and good old-fashioned fun, we usually turn to the decades-old and always reliable Weekly Reader magazine. The most recent issue was especially well-rounded, containing not only a very interesting spread on the... Continue reading

5. The Audit

   The Sunday Times Rocks!!!

   December 5, 2005 08:16 PM

   Hey everybody!! You'll never guess what we've been doing on Sundays. We've been reading the New York Times business pages!!!!!!! ... ha-ha-ha! ... don't ask us why ... maybe it's because it's been, like, TOTALLY freezin' outside and Sunday is... Continue reading

6. The Audit

   The Latest Numbers Are Out - and Our Eyes Glaze Over

   December 1, 2005 08:45 PM

   Every executive on the planet -- except those on Wall Street -- already knew it. But now it's official: quarterly earnings reports are completely "meaningless." They are nothing more than a "fool's game" played by corporate managers to "please Wall... Continue reading

7. The Audit

   A Lot of Hot Air

   November 17, 2005 01:37 PM

   The business press has uncovered yet another potentially catastrophic economic trend. This time it's private equity firms, which are flush with money and making a lot of big investments - -an apparent sign of trouble. Emily Thornton of BusinessWeek sounded... Continue reading

8. The Audit

   The Biz Pages: Bedtime Reading

   November 17, 2005 08:00 AM

   The staff at CJR Daily really isn't a bunch of misanthropic curmudgeons bent on making journalists feel bad. Indeed, we fully intended to kick off the Audit's newly expanded coverage of the business press on a positive note, and spent... Continue reading

9. Bio

   Mark R. Mitchell

   Mark R. Mitchell wrote the The Audit column in 2006.