TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For respondents, the staffing struggle also meant curtailing business growth (19.23%), more errors in sales tax calculation (17.58%), more frustration from existing staff (21.43%) and, perhaps scariest, a growing lack of confidence in being prepared for an audit (22.53%). million accountants and auditors in the U.S. There were about 1.65

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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

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

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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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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Going Concern

AUGUST 2, 2024

While we have you, if you’re in the market for accounting talent you should sign up for Always-On Recruiting from Accountingfly. Get great candidates in tax, audit, and accounting in your inbox every week with no obligation to hire. It’s free!

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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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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

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

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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CPA Practice

JANUARY 29, 2024

Top 100 accounting firm Haynie & Co. was fined $400,000 and two current and two former partners were fined a total of $190,000 by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on Jan. 23 for subpar auditing and quality control failures. or Haynie’s 2019 audit of Investview Inc.

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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

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 14, 2023

When you woke up this morning did you let out a big yawn and then ask yourself “how can audit firms respond to ongoing regulatory scrutiny?” PCAOB staff expects approximately 40% of the audits reviewed in 2022 will have one or more deficiencies, up from 34% in 2021 and 29% in 2020. The firm, BST & Co.,

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In an article for CoinDesk , Francine McKenna took a crack at why the FTX debacle happened, and like she always does when there ’s really bad accounting at a company going through a financial crisis, who are/were the auditors: It’s not clear why FTX commissioned two different audit firms to audit its 2020 and 2021 financial statements.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Caseware International , a global leader in cloud-enabled audit, financial reporting and data analytics solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Danielle Supkis Cheek as Vice President, Head of Analytics and AI. Supkis Cheek joins Caseware from MindBridge where she was Vice President of Strategy and Industry Relations.

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Anders CPA

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

About David Between his time in public accounting and corporate accounting, David has almost 20 years of experience across a variety of specialties and industries, including manufacturing, construction, real estate and not-for-profit. A Certified Public Accountant in the state of Missouri, David holds a B.S.

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Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2022

CNN found that he received this money for businesses he classified as tax firms and related entities even though he wasn’t a certified public accountant and a court injunction had barred him from masquerading as one. Top Audit Firms in Crosshairs as U.K. Watchdog Beefs Up Powers [ Bloomberg Tax ] The U.K.’s

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Going Concern

MARCH 30, 2022

The latest audit inspection results for Crowe show the 11th-ranked public accounting firm by revenue bombed 27% of the audits reviewed in the most recent PCAOB inspection cycle, but the firm was less bad in its 2020 report card than it was in 2019’s. Let’s take a look: Crowe. Moss Adams.

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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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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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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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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As a result, Marcum recently had to pay financial penalties to the SEC and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) because of quality control failures and violations of auditing standards during its audits of special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).

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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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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

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

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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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

a Top 60 independent Certified Public Accounting (CPA) firm has expanded the leadership team in its Tax Advisory practice through the addition of several new hires. Janelle Merlo , Tax Director, has 20 years of public accounting experience, providing a wide variety of tax and consulting services to a broad range of clients.

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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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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 14, 2023

CLA’s federal government practice, based in the nation’s capital, provides audit, accounting, and assurance services to help clients establish reliable financial data to make key business decisions. market in 2019 with the acquisition of public accounting firm Halt, Buzas & Powell.

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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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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

While progress is being made, the report, The State of Play: Sustainability Disclosure and Assurance 2019-2022, Trends and Analysis , highlights the need for companies worldwide to move toward a global system of sustainability disclosure requirements. The scope of assurance areas also expanded, yet still remains limited in general.

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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

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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