CPA Practice

APRIL 12, 2023

A talent shortage is affecting accounting firms across the demographic spectrum. Each year fewer accountants enter the profession while more CPAs near retirement. According to the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, the number of U.S.

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Going Concern

JULY 2, 2024

For the second straight inspection cycle, the PCAOB found significant mistakes in more BDO audits than ones without (16 out of 30 in 2021 and 13 out of 24 in 2020 ). failure rate in its 2020 inspection report with a failure rate of 53.3% As a result, BDO followed its 54.2% There’s more!

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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. Nice to see.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Big deal, you ’re probably thinking, audit firms screw up all the time—some more than others. But Cohen & Company had perfect auditing report cards from the PCAOB for 2018, 2019 , and 2020. The firm messed up on one of its nine audits inspected, and it pertained to the financial statement audit only. and in the world.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 12, 2024

Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Long Reads How Auditor Deloitte Missed A Nigerian Company’s Massive Fraud [ Forbes ] Hindenburg Research, known for sniffing out corporate scams, took aim in June at an obscure Nigeria-based outfit named Tingo Group.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

‘There’s definitely an accountant shortage out there’: MBAs have become the go-to degree and companies are struggling to hire enough CPAs [ Fortune ]. The Big Four accounting firms are even reaching out to high school students to share that message and creating more flexible work environments, Lansford says. billion euros ($1.9

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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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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

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. million) in damages from accounting firm EY for its role in auditing the books of Wirecard before its collapse in 2020, a shareholder group said. Don’t hesitate to reach out.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 20, 2023

TowerBrook and Eisner plan to continue acquiring regional accounting firms or partnerships. Brentwood-based LBMC, a business consulting and financial services firm, will welcome Louisville-based accounting firm Strothman & Co under its family of companies. This move, effective Nov.

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Going Concern

MAY 26, 2023

Long Read How a Pandemic-Era Program Became a Magnet for Fraud [ New York Times ] Amid the onset of the pandemic in 2020, as large swaths of the economy went into lockdown, Washington set up various programs to help keep businesses and their workers afloat. Have a safe Memorial Day. million over a decade.

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JULY 26, 2022

In fact, the 46 IPOs in Q2 was the fewest since the first quarter of 2020 (38), and the $5.3 Even though SPACs are going through a rough patch, public accounting firms that are SPAC auditing machines were kept the busiest in Q2. billion), according to a new analysis from Audit Analytics.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This event did not come about because China suddenly warmed to the PCAOB, rather Congress urged their cooperation along with the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act of 2020, threatening delisting from American exchanges if they did not comply.

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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.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The talent shortage has long been wreaking havoc on the profession and with the accounting pipeline drying up faster than Lake Mead, there doesn’t seem to be much relief on the horizon (if anything, things are getting worse ). This isn’t solely a matter of firms struggling to find talent, there is no talent to find.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The numbers don’t lie: of 658,267 actively licensed CPAs in 53 of the 55 licensing jurisdictions, less than 1% are Black (2020 data), a number that has remained largely unchanged in 40 years. It wasn’t until 2015 that a woman became CEO of a Big 4 accounting firm for the first time. CPA firms are white.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Publications around the world continue to discuss the tragic sudden death of a young auditor at EY India and dirt keeps making its way to the surface. They opened up testing centers all around India in 2020 and Philippines in 2024 and allowing people there without any US college credits to sit for exams. Hello and happy Monday!

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Going Concern

MAY 5, 2022

Alternate title: If You Are an Accounting Student, Expect to End Up In Audit When You Graduate. Ever since early 2020 we have been forced to learn how to go without, not always an easy task in our always-connected, on-demand, two-day-delivery world. New accounting graduate hires are increasingly being assigned to audit — a shift of 11.5

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Going Concern

MARCH 1, 2023

Members of the accounting firm Armanino’s digital-asset practice have departed and formed a new startup – The Network Firm – to carry on the business of providing audits, attestations and related work for crypto clients. Armanino has said it stands by its 2020 and 2021 audits of FTX US.

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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

JUNE 9, 2023

PwC’s tax scandal victims pile up [ Australian Financial Review ] It was Wednesday evening when the full cost of PwC Australia’s position began to dawn on the firm’s senior employees – the kernel of true believers on the brink of realising their life ambition to become partners at Australia’s biggest accounting firm.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 15, 2023

One of the Big Four accounting giants in the U.S., Following a split, EY would have been able to advise companies for which it also acted as auditor. It drew ire from US executives—including senior executives like John King and Frank Mahoney—as they wanted auditors to get a bigger bite of the lucrative tax practice pie.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Miller was appointed vice president for finance in April 2020 and also serves as the university treasurer. Former employee of Chattanooga accounting firm speaks out [ Local 3 ] A former employee of Croft and Frost is speaking out following the accounting firm’s shutdown that cost him and his coworkers their jobs.

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CPA Practice

MAY 14, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has overhauled its decades-old quality control requirements for audit firms by adopting a new standard on May 13 designed to put the onus squarely on auditors and executives. Firms themselves have also changed significantly, as has the role of firm networks.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

He also failed to pay over $1 million in outstanding tax debts he and his accounting firm, Carter’s Tax Advisory, owed. Specifically, Fulton continued to transfer money between accounts, issue checks and wires to Nix’s gambling clients who won large bets, and helped Nix obtain bank loans to facilitate the gambling business.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In first-ever sanctions levied against an audit firm related to its membership in an accounting alliance, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on Aug. 29 fined top 50 firm Warren Averett $200,000 for auditor independence violations during the 2019 and 2020 audits of an issuer.

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CPA Practice

MAY 10, 2023

These were the PCAOB’s very first inspections of Chinese-based audit firms— the audit regulator secured complete access to inspect and investigate registered public accounting firms headquartered in mainland China and Hong Kong last year, ending a decades-long stalemate. auditors to inspect the records of U.S.-listed

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

From the SEC : The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against accounting firm Prager Metis CPAs, LLC and its California professional services firm, Prager Metis CPAs LLP, (together, Prager) for violating auditor independence rules and for aiding and abetting their clients’ violations of federal securities laws.

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CPA Practice

MAY 2, 2023

By Paula Laurenti, Key Accounts Manager at SAPRO. accounting profession is facing a severe shortage of certified accountants. Projections indicate that demand for accountants and auditors will increase by 13% between 2021 and 2031, with an estimated 136,400 job openings between 2021 and 2023.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The PCAOB added six audit firms —three international, including a KPMG affiliate, and three in the U.S., These six firms must have forgotten to do that or something and, as a result, were fined and censured by the PCAOB: KPMG Samjong Accounting Corp. – $30,000 civil money penalty and censure.

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Going Concern

JULY 26, 2024

In the Workplace Meet your Gen Z mentor: Why EY is tapping younger workers to bridge the generational skills divide [ Fortune ] Professional services firm EY has an informal program called “reverse mentoring,” when two employees of different generations are paired together to share wisdom—with millennials and Gen Z at the helm.

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AUGUST 23, 2023

million) payouts, effortlessly beating the 2020 high of £868,000 and quite a leap from £765,000 in 2019. Reports The Guardian : More than 1,000 partners at the UK division of the “big four” accounting firm PwC will be paid £906,000 this year, a slight fall on last year’s record payout as profits fell despite rising revenues.

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Going Concern

JUNE 30, 2022

Late August/early September 2020 was a dark period in EY ’s history , as many EYers lost their jobs during that first summer of the pandemic. During an all-hands webcast on April 21, 2020 , Grier said there would be no layoffs through the end of EY’s 2020 fiscal year, the last day of which was June 30.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Inc UHY LLP Warren Averett, LLC Zwick CPA, PLLC Expanded reports Baker Tilly US, LLP (12/21/2020 Report) Ernst & Young, S.L. Spain) (9/9/2021 Report) MaloneBailey, LLP (12/17/2020 Report) Today we’re going to talk about PwC Canada, if you want to check out the others head over to the PCAOB’s inspection report lookup.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Commerzbank warned German financial watchdog BaFin about Wirecard 's illicit activity early in 2020, before the payment giant's scandal of missing money came to light later in the year, the Financial Times (FT) reported. Other firms also warned the regulator about Wirecard's possible money laundering and fraud activity.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Three of the firms also joined industry efforts to designate accounting as a science, technology, engineering, and math—or STEM—field, according to federal lobbying disclosures. My buddy from undergrad works office security at one of the Big 4 accounting firms in Midtown.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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. 21 for “pervasive” quality control violations found in its audits of special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in 2020 and 2021.

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