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JUNE 18, 2020

Wirecard has postponed publication of its 2019 annual report after disclosing that its auditor can’t confirm the existence $2.1 Wirecard said in its statement that it will announce another date for its 2019 report’s release in the future. billion in trust accounts — or about a quarter of the value on the company’s books.

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Going Concern

MAY 5, 2022

On top of the overall pipeline issue, we’ve heard grumblings of auditor shortages for years. Bloomberg Tax wrote about the issue earlier this year citing the Great Resignation and a turnover rate double what it usually is as risks to financial statements themselves. The post Are Auditors Becoming as Hard to Find as a PS5?

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Going Concern

AUGUST 17, 2023

LLP, its CEO Nigel Bostock, and senior auditor Matthew Stallabrass for the firm’s deficient audit of music streaming company Akazoo Limited. million back in 2021 “for allegedly defrauding investors out of tens of millions of dollars in connection with a 2019 special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) business combination.”

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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2023

Both KPMG and PwC have been fined by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) in relation to the statutory audits of the financial statements of Eddie Stobart Logistics plc, a shipping and logistics company based in Warrington, UK. The failings were serious but not pervasive, said the FRC.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 13, 2023

deficiencies”) in certain issuer audits that were of such significance that we believe the firm, at the time it issued its audit report(s), had not obtained sufficient appropriate audit evidence to support its opinion(s) on the issuer’s financial statements and/or internal control over financial reporting (ICFR); and.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

29 fined top 50 firm Warren Averett $200,000 for auditor independence violations during the 2019 and 2020 audits of an issuer. Warren Averett audited the BDO valuation work as part of its 2019 and 2020 audits of CytoDyn. Warren Averett audited the BDO valuation work as part of its 2019 and 2020 audits of CytoDyn.

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Going Concern

MARCH 8, 2023

The FRC says many of the matters to which the breaches relate were qualitatively material to users of the financial statements. In aggregate, the breaches ran the risk that a material misstatement in the FY2017 and/or FY2018 Babcock group Financial Statements may have gone undetected.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Add to that the issue of baby boomer retirements and an entire class of auditors who were trained by Zoom at the beginning of the pandemic now reaching the point where they are expected to train associates below them despite they themselves still struggling and…well. They do, however, fine the s**t out of firms. Or they are now, anyway.

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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.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 7, 2023

In 2021, there was a 17 percent drop in employed accountants and auditors from a 2019 peak, according to a Bloomberg Tax analysis. Auditors can do their work in as little as two or three hours, as opposed to the days or weeks they would typically spend auditing accounting by sifting through file cabinets and chasing paper.

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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. Marcum auditors didn’t do too badly on audits of ICFR. Moss Adams.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 3, 2023

In 2021, there was a 17 percent drop in employed accountants and auditors from a 2019 peak, according to a Bloomberg Tax analysis. Auditors can do their work in as little as two or three hours, as opposed to the days or weeks they would typically spend auditing accounting by sifting through file cabinets and chasing paper.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 15, 2023

Snodgrass —failed to obtain audit committee pre-approval in connection with providing audit and/or non-audit services to issuer audit clients, in violation of PCAOB Rule 3520, Auditor Independence , and for two of the three firms (BPM and Plante Moran) PCAOB Rule 3524, Audit Committee Pre-Approval of Certain Tax Services.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 30, 2022

After having a not-great audit deficient rate of 31% in its 2017 inspection report , EY’s error rate had dropped to 26% in its 2018 report , 18% in 2019 , and 15.4% Errors were found in one audit each for issuers in the energy, financials, materials, and real estate sectors. The most common Part I.A The most common Part I.A

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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2022

The hardworking human beings at Audit Analytics have released their analysis of initial public offering trends and IPO auditor market share for the first quarter of this year , a period in which the number of companies going public was minuscule compared to Q1 of 2021. This isn’t surprising, as Marcum is the largest auditor of SPACs.

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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. In early 2019, the firm violated the anti-fraud provisions of U.S. To protect investors on U.S.

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Going Concern

JULY 11, 2023

WSJ: The widening shortage of accountants has begun showing up in financial statements. ” “In the course of completing the preparation of the quarterly financial statements for the Form 10-Q, the Company determined that it had a deficiency in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of April 22, 2023.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

In the ongoing scandal of Wirecard , under fire for fraud, the focus is now turning to auditors Ernst & Young (EY), which reportedly failed to report Wirecard’s “unorthodox financial arrangements” as far back as 2016, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 4, 2023

The last of the 2021 Big 4 PCAOB inspection reports belongs to KPMG, which has had the highest audit deficiency rate of the four firms for six out of the previous seven years —the lone exception being 2019. The good news for KPMG is its deficient rate for 2021 was slightly better than the one in its 2020 auditing report card —26% vs. 26.4%.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 26, 2023

Based on these inspections, the report presents several key takeaways for auditors. The number of SPAC IPOs increased from 59 in 2019 to 248 in 2020, then spiked significantly to 613 in 2021. Of those audits, 37% had at least one deficiency.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 6, 2023

For 2021 inspections, six audits had problems in both internal control over financial reporting and in the financial statement, nine had deficiencies in the financial statement only, and one ICFR audit wasn ’t up to snuff. Of the seven audits of issuers in the financials sector, BDO botched five of them.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Navarro-Velez joined the department at UNLV in 2019. In new research, Matthias Breuer, Anthony Le, and Felix Vetter find that when companies are required by the government to seek a third-party financial audit, they turn to lower quality auditors.

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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

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. issued a clean audit report of Akazoo’s 2018 financial statements. 14 over various mistakes the firm made during its 2018 audit of music streaming company Akazoo. Greece-based Akazoo reached a $38.8

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

According to allegations in the indictment, from January 2019 to June 2022, Urban was employed as a senior staff accountant for a Charlotte-based company. The false signatures were applied to various documents, including audit opinions, auditor independence declarations and independent audit reports and review reports.

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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. PwC Fined $7.9

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Going Concern

JULY 17, 2023

KPMG Nederland director Marc Hogeboom is also stepping down as boss of the accounting arm, but remains an auditor and partner at KPMG. He said in a statement he “should have been more alert to signals” that pointed towards workers sharing their answers. Accountancy firms play an important role in society.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

During the third quarter of 2018, AAC found that it had collected far less on accounts receivable than expected and determined that it needed to restate its 2016 and 2017 financial statements. In June 2020, AAC filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, according to the PCAOB.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Audit Americanas’ $4 Billion Accounting Scandal Puts More Scrutiny on PwC’s Auditing Record [ Bloomberg ] A $4 billion accounting shortfall would typically raise alarm bells for an auditor. Somehow, a PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP affiliate didn’t catch it at Americanas SA.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

” You’re probably going to hear a lot about FTX in coming weeks, for now former and current auditors Armanino and Prager Metis face scrutiny over FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt crypto empire ( CoinDesk also joined us in ripping on the Prager Metis metaverse space ). .” listed casino businesses operate.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The electric payments company rocketed to fame in the 2010s, rising to become the country’s most valuable financial firm. But two years ago its auditor, EY, declared it could not find nearly 1.9 and Canadian regulators that accused them of filing inaccurate financial statements. Cronos Group Inc. 24 with U.S.

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Going Concern

JULY 28, 2023

Between 2002 and 2019, the number of large partnerships—with over $100 million in assets and 100 or more partners—increased almost 600%. The IRS has trained auditors examining the claims that pose the greatest risk of fraud, and the IRS Criminal Investigation division is identifying promoters of fraudulent claims, he said. since 2007.

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Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2024

In the public company audit arena, this transparency is maintained through PCAOB inspections of auditors. The PCAOB inspects the work of the inspectors (auditors) who are inspecting the books of listed companies. But what about the books of the auditor? Newton is now a qualified accountant, and working as an auditor.

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Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2022

The Financial Reporting Council said Thursday it’s seeking feedback on beefed-up powers to take over the registration of the auditors of so-called public interest entities. Lack of Access Could Hinder Audits of Companies With Ties to Russia [ Wall Street Journal ] Auditors that assess the financial statements of U.S.-listed

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Going Concern

MAY 13, 2022

Junior KPMG auditor ‘should not lose his home’ for misleading regulator, says tribunal [ Financial Times ] A former junior KPMG auditor should not receive a fine so large it could force him to sell his matrimonial home, a tribunal has said. ” COVID-19 has negatively impacted how auditors work [ Phys.org ] Duh?

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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. June 17, 2019. By the way, I read about this at www.goingconcern.com.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 2, 2024

The class action alleges that Deloitte, as auditors, certified a clean financial statement without auditors’ notes or remarks to caution that it may not be up to accounting standards, according to the complaint. In 2019, it was Tulsa, Okla.-based PwC chief’s $1.2m based HoganTaylor at 31.0%.

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