CFOs on the hot seat: Students tell Expedia and Zillow execs how they could improve

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Expedia’s Mark Okerstrom and Zillow’s Chad Cohen are accustomed to fielding tough questions from Wall Street analysts. But the chief financial officers were on a hot seat of a different sort last Wednesday as a group of accounting and business students at Seattle University presented their findings about both companies, sharing insights on everything from… Read More…

Microsoft takes $6.2 billion write-down over aQuantive

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Conceding that its giant acquisition of aQuantive Inc. hasn’t worked out as planned, Microsoft says it will write down the value of goodwill in its Online Services Division by a whopping $6.2 billion — almost as much as it paid for the Seattle-based online advertising company back in 2007, then the largest deal in Microsoft’s… Read More…

Startup Spotlight: Kashoo’s iPad app looks to make accounting easy

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If you’ve ever gotten stuck, frustrated or bent out of shape using QuickBooks, the team at Kashoo wants to talk to you. The company is developing what they describe as super-simple cloud-based accounting software for small business owners. We chatted with Jim Secord, a Bellingham resident who commutes to B.C. three times per week, for the… Read More…