HeyJaredThe Dig
Francine McKenna digs into accounting, audit, and corporate governance issues at public and pre-IPO companies.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 13
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 4, 2026
Latest issues
PwC’s big settlement for the Valeant fraud (opens the original)
Read excerpt
On September 10, 2026, the day before the news barrage from the 25th anniversary of 9/11, plaintiffs City of Tucson together and on behalf of the Tucson Supplemental Retirement System filed a Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion for Preliminary Approval of Class Action Settlement with the last defendant standing in case going back to the 2014 audit by PricewaterhouseCoopers of Valeant, now known as Bausch Health.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/f
Not ready for prime time players: SB Energy and Nscale (opens the original)
Read excerpt
What do I look for in a prospectus?During my tenure at MarketWatch, I drafted or contributed to a lot of “5 Things to Watch For” in the various IPOs that occurred. I was charged with coming up with the accounting/audit angles no one else would talk about.I used this template for SpaceX and, in the past, for companies like Snowflake, which I will mention again later. There you can find some questions I apply when making a quick read of a long prospectus:There’s been a lot written about the SB Ene
The AI revenue beat: While I traveled to London and Cambridge the news kept coming (opens the original)
Read excerpt
“Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.”―Pindar, Odes for Victorious Athletes“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.̶
Reviewing SB Energy’s IPO dreams (opens the original)
Read excerpt
This is collaborative effort, co-authored with Deep Quarry, the newsletter from Olga Usvyatsky. If you value our work, please subscribe!The Dig is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<div class="
A Fabulous Debt: Video interview with author, FT Editor Robin Wigglesworth (opens the original)
Read excerpt
FT Alphaville Editor Robin Wigglesworth talks to me about his new book, “A Fabulous Debt”, available on September 29.You can pre-order Robin Wigglesworth’s book “ A Fabulous Debt” here.Check out all of my video “Interviews” on the new vertical on the menu bar. You’ll find all of the video author interviews I’ve done, including those at the Pen & Pencil Club during my time teaching at Wharton. I’ve pulle
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.