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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big 4 Firms Hate Going Concern (Warnings, That Is); Being a Whistleblower Blows | 5.20.24

Going Concern

Auditors are required to include a going-concern warning if they believe there is a risk that the company may go bankrupt, rather than making a prediction that it will. The quality control standard represents the give and take of a decade’s worth of consideration on how to improve audit quality among auditors of public companies.

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Professor Accuses Professional Accountant Body of Hoarding Fines Like Smaug Hoards Gold

Going Concern

It appears the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has finally pushed Sheffield University’s Richard Murphy over the edge. The Professor of Accounting Practice at Sheffield’s Management School issued a new report chastising the group for hoarding funds.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The Age of the Non-CPA; PwC Explains the Chevron Thing | 7.29.24

Going Concern

All this time we thought it was going to be robots that take accounting jobs, it was Indians all along. 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.

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Tuesday Morning Accounting News Brief: A New Kind of Audit Quality Report; Merger Mania; Skilled Talent, Not Newbies | 5.28.24

Going Concern

ConTech360, founded in 2019, provides construction technology services. The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has published a report called Evolution of Mid-Tier Accountancy Firms. The transaction, announced May 20, is expected to close this fall. – More than 1.2

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Friday Footnotes: Working Late; The Year of the ESOP?; It’s Not Layoffs, It’s “Repositioning” | 1.5.24

Going Concern

Racial diversity in accounting has been treated as a “box-ticking exercise”, Atul said to The Mail on Sunday in December, even when professions are a magnet for minorities. The Town Board of Trustees originally requested that the State Auditor and Inspector’s Office perform an investigative audit of municipal court transactions.