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HORNE bankers forum set for September

MBJ Staff — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:00:44 +0000

The historic changes under way in the U.S. banking sector will be among the topics covered at this year’s HORNE Bankers Forum in Memphis and Biloxi in September. The Biloxi session is Sept. 21 at the Beau Rivage, 875 Beach Blvd.; the Memphis session is Sept. 28 at the Memphis Hilton, 939 Ridge Lake Blvd. [...]

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PSC selects companies to perform electric utility audits

Amy McCullough — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:00:59 +0000

If the selected companies stick to their bids, Mississippi ratepayers should save money on audits of their public electric utilities this year. The Mississippi Public Service Commission has approved bids for the fiscal year 2010 audits of Mississippi Power Company and Entergy Mississippi that cumulatively total less than $1 million. Contracts have not been finalized. [...]

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Utilities’ fuel purchase practices will be scrutinized

Amy McCullough — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 06:00:30 +0000

Audits of Mississippi’s electric utilities that were performed by HORNE LLP and Nicholson last year for approximately $1 million and $600,000, respectively, will be bid out this year, per a vote last week by the state Public Service Commission. Commissioner Leonard Bentz did not want to advertise for bids. The Commission, like other state agencies, [...]

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Butcher may be weary-eyed, but prepared for HORNE’s SERIES

Ted Carter — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:00:45 +0000

CPA Rusty Butcher is doing something perhaps no one else in Mississippi is doing: reading the entire 2,200-page Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. It’s not drudgery, but nor is it close to recreational reading, said Butcher, a partner in the Ridgeland-based HORNE CPA and Business Advisors firm. The summer reading is part [...]

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Customers likely to pay $1M Entergy audit charge

Amy McCullough — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:01:39 +0000

Consultant: Entergy’s fuel purchasing above-board The final bill for a state audit of Entergy Mississippi’s fuel adjustment charges, conducted by outside party HORNE LLP, is $1.019 million. The project bill was quoted to be $780,000, but according to HORNE, the price was driven up because the accounting firm had trouble obtaining needed documents from the [...]

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