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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CPA Practice

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has not been in a jovial mood lately. Shortly after criticizing audit firms for the number of errors they made on public company audits reviewed by PCAOB inspectors last year, the audit watchdog doled out sanctions to 12 accounting firms from July 28 to Aug.

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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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Going Concern

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The 2023 AICPA Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits report (short: Trends report) was released last week and spoiler alert, it’s dark. Says the AICPA, bachelor’s degree completions in accounting dropped 7.8% 65,035 total accounting degrees completed for 2021-22.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 16, 2024

“My generation is more focused on maintaining that work-life balance,” said Kowal, who works at accounting firm EisnerAmper in Philadelphia. “A Ha Pham, who graduated from college in 2019, knows what those hours can be like. Last summer she became a tax accountant at wealth management firm Stonehage Fleming.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Accountants can choose from a wide array of career paths, ranging from public accounting firms to corporate finance departments, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and beyond. Get through the public accounting gauntlet for two years and you can go do something better.

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MyIRSRelief

OCTOBER 3, 2022

According to the IRS, in 2019, Los Angeles county residents had 4,806,030 total 1040 tax returns. Some taxpayers may experience trouble with the IRS if they have unpaid back taxes, unfiled tax returns, tax debt, or IRS/state tax audits. Los Angeles IRS & State Tax Audit Representation Service. They can represent clients.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 17, 2023

Rather than being constrained towards a single country, accounting credentials such as Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Enrolled Agent (EA) and Certified Management Accounting (CMA) are quickly turning into global designations. . accounting and tax credentials: Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

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CPA Practice

APRIL 18, 2024

Ndeye Amy Thioub, 67, of Swampscott, MA, has served as a Boston-based IRS agent out of the IRS’s Large Business and International Division since 2006 and has been a licensed certified public accountant in Massachusetts since 2010, according to an affidavit filed in support of her criminal charges by a fellow IRS agent.

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Going Concern

JULY 29, 2024

Oh and reminder: the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is working on a plan to consolidate India’s 96,000 little accountancy firms into mega-firms that they think could compete with Big 4 on the global stage. INSIDE Public Accounting continues to tease the upcoming release of the IPA 500.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 5, 2022

The most DYNAMIC firm in all of public accounting recently had comp discussions, according to r/accounting. 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.

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Withum

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In a tradition stretching back more than three decades, the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA) held its annual liaison meeting with the states Department of Revenue (DOR). The DOR says it would rather a taxpayer challenge a statute than wait to be audited.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The fact is that so much has changed since 2019 – CEOs might want to turn back time, “but the reality is, once certain things change in society, it is very difficult to put the genie back in the bottle”. It will not meet CPAB’s target for an audit firm to have significant findings in less than 10 per cent of its 2023 examined audits.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

There should be tons of accounting grads drooling for jobs right now and plenty of jobs to go around, no? Demand is especially strong for audit and tax professionals. Specialty areas seeing more hiring activity include IT audit, business valuation, and forensic accounting. In 2019 the BEC pass rate hit 60.

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Going Concern

MARCH 22, 2024

Day will join the FASB from Ernst & Young LLP (EY), the global accounting and professional services firm, where he is a partner working in Professional Practice. Mr. Day has spent most of his 38-year accounting career at EY, which he initially joined in 1986 on the audit staff in St. Louis, Missouri.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 6, 2024

Brown Plus Welcomes Four New Team Members Leading accounting and advisory firm,Brown Plus, recently announced the hiring of four new team members: Michael Corona started with Brown Plus as an intern and is now an Audit Associate. He graduated from York College with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.

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Going Concern

MAY 18, 2022

While PCAOB inspection reports are only one indicator of how good or bad a public accounting firm’s audit quality is, it’s still pretty embarrassing when a firm gets a bad report card. From 2012’s inspection report to 2016’s report, BDO had an awful average audit failure rate of nearly 63%.

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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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ThomsonReuters

MAY 16, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of auditing and accounting, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has taken a significant step forward with the adoption of a new quality control standard, QC 1000. What are the core objectives of QC 1000?

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Going Concern

MARCH 3, 2022

These KPMGers took part in an answer-sharing scheme—either by providing or receiving answers—on mandatory training courses covering topics that included independence, auditing, and accounting. This is widespread, with the greatest impact on the audit practice. 24 and $200,000 by the Canadian Public Accountability Board on Feb.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

At the meeting, the Board will consider issuing for public comment a proposal to amend PCAOB Rule 3502, Responsibility Not to Knowingly or Recklessly Contribute to Violations. The administration did not present a budget for Internal Audit during the hearings. Following is a summary of the key areas of comment.

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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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Going Concern

MAY 28, 2024

The local news in Cincinnati covered this strategic move : One of Greater Cincinnati’s largest accounting firms is being acquired by an Indianapolis company. Blue Ash-based tax, advisory and audit firm Cassady Schiller CPAs & Advisors will become part of Katz, Sapper & Miller in a transaction that will be completed May 31.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 3, 2024

He previously served as a partner and TAS practice leader at SAX LLP, a top 100 public accounting firm. Dean joins ZEDRA from JTC, where he began in 2019 as Group Director to the CEO’s Office. Moyer has a unique background in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) sector.

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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. Originally they were just audit firms,” he said. Then the audit firms decided to create this problem by going off and doing their own consulting and the whole thing’s got out of hand.”

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Going Concern

JULY 18, 2022

We received a tip about a situation over at Grant Thornton that may or may not have any basis in reality but since the only time Grant Thornton ever gets mentioned here is to get made fun of over being so bad at auditing (it’s getting better OK!) Maybe some partners are still butthurt about getting their draws cut by 25% in 2020.

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Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2024

In response, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has drafted a rule that the accounting firms can have public trust or private financials—but they can’t have both. Public accounting firms operate in a unique space in our society. Regulations need to change to match. Right now, they don’t.

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Going Concern

JULY 17, 2023

I want to call special attention to this reaction from Mike Shaub, Auditing and Accounting Ethics clinical professor at Texas A&M and the guy we follow on Twitter for the hottest in ethics hot takes. The moral cowardice in public accounting worldwide just stuns me sometimes. SEC order on that here.

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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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CPA Practice

JUNE 5, 2023

She brings deep experience in leading finance organizations at high-growth SaaS companies through IPO and beyond and serves on both the board of directors and audit committees for public and private companies. Oulman currently serves as a member of the board and the audit committee chair for both CalAmp and Plume Design, Inc.,

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Going Concern

JULY 28, 2023

INSIDE Public Accounting Releases Its Annual Rankings and Analysis of the Nation’s Largest, Fast-Growing Public Accounting Firms [ INSIDE Public Accounting ] “The labor shortage is a major driver behind the behavior of the IPA 100 firms,” says Charles Hylan, managing director at The Growth Partnership, IPA’s parent company.

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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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CPA Practice

JUNE 12, 2023

The Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS)—one of the largest state associations in the nation serving the certified public accountant (CPA) community—has presented Daniel F. Prior to joining Wintrust in 2019, Rahill held various leadership positions with BDO USA LLP, Alvarez & Marsal, and FGMK LLC following more than 27 years with KPMG LLP.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

That’s up from 91% in 2019. Sixty-four percent of companies obtained assurance over at least some ESG information in 2021, up from 51% in 2019. CPAs have unquestioned competence, professional judgment and operate within a robust system built with public protection in mind. The current report includes data from 2019-2021.Full

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Going Concern

MAY 9, 2023

This is from CNN Philippines in March : The country is facing a shortage of accountants as college enrollment for this field of study dropped while those licensed chose to work abroad, a group of certified public accountants said on Friday. There are about 200,000 certified public accountants (CPAs) as of 2023.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Navarro-Velez joined the department at UNLV in 2019. Mandatory audits don’t provide protection the entities mandated them think they do according to new research. Second, we find that audit mandates benefit the auditors by creating new demand, particularly from smaller companies just above the exemption threshold.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Increased levels of job-related stress have been observed through a multitude of factors, including a market shortage of entry level and experienced staff, increased compliance and reporting requirements resulting from the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and lingering public concern over financial scandals (Kenneth J. Smith, David J. Everly, Jr.,

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