Going Concern

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A gent who spent nine months as an audit associate at Grant Thornton’s Manchester office got a letter from them a year after leaving that apologized for inadvertently paying him less than minimum wage. Yavinka Mendis, a University of Manchester economics graduate, joined KPMG’s Manchester office as an audit associate in 2019.

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CPA Practice

JULY 16, 2024

Technology Will Support, Not Replace, Accountants As far back as 2015, industry leaders were sounding the death knell for accountants, convinced emerging technologies — particularly automation — would end in death by digital for accountancy as we know it.

Technology 124

Technology accounting firms Account accountant 124

Going Concern

JULY 11, 2022

That’s how much Tanvi Shah made in audit before she decided to quit Big 4 for good and make her social media side hustle a full-time gig. This post brought to you by RAID: Shadow Legends, one of the biggest mobile role-playing games of 2019 and it’s tota–oh wait, never mind, wrong post. £3,000 ($3,600) a month.

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audit Montana Management Consulting Start-ups 105

CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

These needs may differ from firm to firm because the accounting function can span multiple departments, including tax, audit, advisory services, and more. That said, business leaders need to ensure they choose technologies that will successfully address their workforce’s specific needs.

Technology 111

Technology accounting firms Account accountant 111

Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

First things first: The PCAOB found that Warren Averett violated independence requirements during its 2019 and 2020 audits of an issuer, because the firm audited valuations performed for the issuer by another accounting firm that sponsored an alliance of which Warren Averett was a member. Nice to see.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 9, 2025

While the AICPA and large accounting firms have begged urged the SEC not to approve the PCAOB Firm and Engagement Metrics rule (PCAOB-2024-06) approved by the PCAOB on November 21, 2024, at least one person would like to see the added transparency this rule could provide and he’ll explain why in a comment letter we’ll discuss below.

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audit auditor Education accounting firms 124

Going Concern

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Firm Watch Accountancy firm BDO fined €1.3 million for work with Russian-held football club Vitesse [ NL Times ] The fine is regarding the work that BDO did as an accountant for football club Vitesse, and a holding company of the former owner of the club, Russian businessman Valeri Oyf, sources told FD.

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audit auditor New York accounting firms 104

CPA Practice

MAY 21, 2024

Top 200 accounting firm MaloneBailey was fined $400,000 by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on May 21 for what the audit regulator calls “pervasive quality control violations.”

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audit accounting firms accountant Account 64

Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

.” From today’s news release : The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Alfonse Gregory Giugliano, CPA, the former National Assurance Services Leader at Marcum LLP, a public accounting firm, with failing to sufficiently address and remediate numerous deficiencies in Marcum’s quality control system.

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audit public accounting auditor Management Consulting 116

Going Concern

JANUARY 9, 2024

In September we were tipped to a developing situation at US mid-tier audit firms in which said firms started shuttering their public company audit practices. It means the watchdog will only conduct inspections of the firm’s “public interest entity” audits every three years, rather than every 12 months.

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audit accounting firms accountant accounted 115

KROST

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Today, most restaurants operate in a completely different fashion than they did in 2019, for better or worse. The post Restaurant Site Audit – Post-COVID Operations appeared first on KROST. As the guidelines have changed, so have business models, the way guests are served, and even the way orders are placed and received.

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audit Education Sales Technology 91

Accounting Insight

MAY 10, 2024

IRIS Software Group , a leading global software provider of accounting, edtech, payroll and HR solutions, today unveiled IRIS Outsourcing Audit Services, further assisting accountancy firms in unlocking capacity issues that inhibit growth. You can register for a free ticket here.

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audit bookkeeping Non-Profits payroll 64

Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2022

Accounting watchdog investigates Deloitte over Go-Ahead audits [ The Guardian ] One of the UK’s biggest accounting firms, Deloitte, is under investigation by regulators for its audits of Go-Ahead, after the bus and rail operator was embroiled in a scandal for wrongly withholding £50m of taxpayers’ money.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

million earlier this week for breaking various Public Company Accounting Oversight Board auditing rules. Grant Thornton’s India arm and an Australian audit firm also received penalties from the PCAOB. The biggest fine was given to top 25 accounting firm Withum, which was docked $2 million on Feb.

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audit auditor Tax accounting firms 69

Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The PCAOB is busy sniffing out poor audit behavior to remind everyone to be on their game and don’t get caught doing boneheaded things like faking your audit homework because the PCAOB test is tomorrow. Look, the audits don’t have to be perfect. They just have to be performed correctly. Or just send them this.

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audit Gaming accounting firms Account 19

Going Concern

MAY 20, 2024

PwC is facing legal action claiming the accountancy firm is liable for the alleged rape of a graduate employee following after-work drinks. Earlier: The CPA Credential and the Profession Are in a Race For Relevance, Says ICPAS CEO Todd Shapiro (October 2021) UK audit firms are asleep at the wheel according to a new report.

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audit auditor Account accountant 105

Going Concern

JULY 20, 2023

billion in revenue breaks down to: Tax and Legal 21% Audit and Assurance 29% Consulting 50% Off the top of my head I can think of several pundits who will have something to say about that consulting number and it will not be complimentary. The table below shows a case breakdown by type and number across the four firms.

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audit accounting firms Start-ups Legal 98

Going Concern

JANUARY 3, 2025

PR Newswire ] Aprio, the 25th largest business advisory and accounting firm in the U.S., announces the strategic acquisitions of two leading accounting firms, KRD, Ltd. The new platform of roughly 12,000 professionals will include a united Trans-Atlantic advisory and tax practice, as well as independent audit practices.

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auditor audit Rhode Island cpa firm 98

Going Concern

AUGUST 22, 2022

A woman who was arrested earlier today after allegedly shooting three people, killing two of them, in Midtown Atlanta is reportedly a former audit manager at BDO USA. and she previously worked for BDO in Atlanta from August 2019 until November 2021 as an IT audit manager. As of 11:40 p.m.

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audit Hospitality accounting firms Account 105

Going Concern

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Compare these numbers to the 2021 AICPA Trends report : total accounting degree completions from 1994-2020 peaked in 2015-16 (79,854) and for 2019-20 which are the years covered in the 2021 Trends report, we had a combined 72,923 bachelor’s and master’s graduates. Demand is especially strong for audit and tax professionals.

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Account accountant accounted accounting degree 126

CPA Practice

JUNE 25, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) fined Vancouver-based accounting firm De Visser Gray $60,000 on June 18 for failing to comply with U.S. auditing rules and quality control standards from April 2019 through January 2024.

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audit tax services accounting firms accounted 52

PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2020

s audit regulator, announced plans this week to break up the dominance of the largest four accounting firms, Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC , according to the Financial Times. The regulator issued letters to those firms, known as the Big Four, Thursday. She said the goal was for audits to be “clear and transparent.”.

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Going Concern

JULY 31, 2023

Currently KPMG, Deloitte and EY provide both consulting and audit to both the public and private sector. Mr Fels, who has provided evidence to the committee looking into the ethical behaviour the major consultancy firms, said conflict-of-interest concerns about the big four were “a problem of their own making”.

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auditor Account accountant accounted 98

Going Concern

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Barring any huge incident like an accounting firm getting raided by the FBI on Christmas Day, there will not be any breaking news. Outsourcing would also reduce pressure on Evelyn Partners’ head office in London, with the firm understood to be struggling to find space for workers amid expansion efforts.

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auditor audit accounting firms accounting and finance 111

CPA Practice

AUGUST 18, 2023

arm of accounting firm Crowe LLP, its CEO, and a senior auditor settled charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 14 over various mistakes the firm made during its 2018 audit of music streaming company Akazoo. issued a clean audit report of Akazoo’s 2018 financial statements. Crowe U.K.’s

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audit financial statements auditor accounting firms 52

CPA Practice

MARCH 21, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) doled out a total of $150,000 in fines to three partners at KPMG in China for turning a blind eye to U.S. auditing standards. audit regulator. Specifically, they didn’t appropriately evaluate the reasonableness of Tarena’s allowance for doubtful accounts.

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audit public accounting financial statements Education 52

Going Concern

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The 2021/22 payments include $14 million from an Industry department contract the Audit Office has found to have been “tailored” to company, and massive deals with the country’s cyber spy agency and Defence. Quiz: Test your remote audit knowledge [ Journal of Accountancy ]. Reports: BDO USA, LLP (6/20/2019 Report).

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Audit Comments Raise Concerns About PCAOB’s Proposal To Expand the Scope of Audits and the Role of Auditors [ JD Supra ] In June 2023, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) proposed sweeping amendments to its auditing standards. Following is a summary of the key areas of comment.

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Colorado audit CPA Texas 111

PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2019

s so-called Big Four accountancy firms — KPMG, PwC, EY and Deloitte — have reportedly failed to reach audit quality standards set by the Financial Reporting Council , Reuters reported this week. Only 75 percent of the audits of the U.K.’s s largest 350 public firms met that 90 percent performance threshold.

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has doled out a record $20 million in total fines to audit firms and individual auditors so far in 2023, almost doubling the previous high mark of $11 million set last year. Since that meeting, the PCAOB fined three firms a total of $145,000 on Nov.

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auditor audit financial statements accounted 105

Going Concern

MARCH 16, 2022

The big news in the accounting profession yesterday afternoon from Dave Michaels of the Wall Street Journal was that the SEC is investigating the Big 4 and other public accounting firms on whether the consulting and non-audit services they sell to clients is conflicting with their independence as the auditors of said clients.

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audit auditor bookkeeping accounting and finance 52

Going Concern

OCTOBER 12, 2022

billion the firm brought in last year. 2022 was clearly one of the best years GT has had revenue-wise in quite a while, if not ever, as 2021 revenue grew just 2.6%, 2020 grew only 1% , 2019 grew 5.4% , and 2018 grew 3.4%. Grant Thornton remains the sixth largest accounting firm by revenue in the U.S.,

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audit accounting firms Tax Account 98

Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Ernst & Young’s leaders are expected this week to give the green light to splitting its auditing and consulting businesses, paving the way for the biggest shake-up in the accounting profession in more than 20 years, according to people familiar with the matter. So says the firm anyway. No wonder he’s so pro-split.

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audit accounting and finance Start-ups accounting firms 59

CPA Practice

APRIL 26, 2023

A new PCAOB staff report sheds light on an area where PCAOB inspectors have observed relatively high rates of audit deficiencies: special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). From 2021 to 2022, PCAOB inspectors reviewed more than 100 audits of companies that were either considered SPACs or that were formed through a de-SPAC transaction.

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audit auditor financial statements Account 52

Going Concern

AUGUST 5, 2022

So we went on r/accounting and looked at the 2022 , 2021 (and this thread on Fishbowl) 2019 , and 2018 comp threads, as well as the 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , and 2013 comp threads on Going Concern. Like many public accounting firms, Grant Thornton has a history of over-promising and under-delivering come comp time.

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public accounting audit Start-ups accounting firms 98

Going Concern

APRIL 21, 2022

Time to whip out an ancient Game of Thrones meme here: The 2021 AICPA Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits report released a couple weeks ago tells us that the number of accounting graduates trended downward in the 2019–2020 academic year (most recent data available), with decreases of 2.8%

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cpas CPA Virginia Education 98

Going Concern

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The need for formal financial statements is rare because lenders realize the high cost of audited financials is not beneficial to either party, so usually a tax return or basic prepared or compiled financial statement is provided. auditing requirements in its component audits of U.S. June 17, 2019. June 28, 2022.

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