CPA Practice

MAY 10, 2023

The head of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) said today that its inspectors found significant deficiencies in the audits of U.S.-listed deficiencies in 100% (four of four) of the audit engagements reviewed at KPMG Huazhen and 75% (three of four) of the audit engagements reviewed for PwC Hong Kong.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 8, 2023

Champions of audit quality will not be happy with this news from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). A staff report released by the audit regulator late last month shows a year-over-year increase in the number of audits with deficiencies at audit firms that the PCAOB inspected in 2022. In Part I.B

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MyIRSRelief

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In particular, the expansion of the IRS and it tax enforcement arm will result in more taxpayers seeking IRS audit & appeals help as it comes into effect starting next year. Understanding the expansion of the IRS and how it affects you will assist in reducing the chances that you will be audited. Services to Taxpayers: +$3.2

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Going Concern

APRIL 3, 2023

Up north, the Canadian equivalent of the PCAOB has said that audit quality in America’s hat is on the decline and that the level of significant findings at non-annually inspected firms is “concerning.” In 2022, 13 audit firms were operating under CPAB enforcement actions for most of the year, up from nine in 2021.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 9, 2023

billion between April 1 and June 30, according to a recent analysis from Audit Analytics. billion) 2020 : 62 ($18.5 billion, while six special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) IPOs raised total proceeds of $980 million, according to Audit Analytics. PwC is the company’s audit firm, according to Kenvue’s Form 8-K.

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TaxConnex

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Someday people will probably use a lot of words to describe 2020. “Un-eventful” Some for the better as many online businesses have seen positive growth in 2020. Predictions for sales tax revenue in states remained rosy into the rest of the year, as e-commerce was expected to represent 12% of total retail sales nationwide in 2020.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. 11 for breaking various auditing rules. Snodgrass, Mancera S.C.,

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The Black and Yellow had been slowly but surely not screwing up as many audits in recent years. 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% For each issuer audit selected, we reviewed a portion of the audit.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 6, 2023

Fat Joe’s favorite audit firm once again had a spectacularly horrible PCAOB inspection report. In the 2021 inspection of BDO USA, LLP, the PCAOB assessed the firm’s compliance with laws, rules, and professional standards applicable to the audits of public companies. For each issuer audit selected, we reviewed a portion of the audit.

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Going Concern

JULY 7, 2022

EY has had a few firsts in recent years: first Big 4 firm with unlimited PTO , first audit firm to get a $100 million fine from the SEC , first Big 4 firm to compare men and women with waffles and pancakes , and first place among the Big 4 in public company audit clients for the past seven years. Together, these 10 firms audit 68.8%

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Some time last year PCAOB inspectors visited China and while details of their visit were kept somewhat quiet from both sides, we were told that the inspectors gained unprecedented access to Chinese audit work.

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Accounting Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When Caroline Ellison asked the former CEO in 2020 whether the line of credit would show up in FTX's audit, he said, "don't worry, the auditors aren't going to look at that," she testified.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Last week the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (think Aussie PCAOB) informed us that Deloitte and KPMG need to take “continued deliberate and concerted action” to improve the quality of their audit work because apparently it is just that bad. Audit staff were also undertaking more training to raise quality.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A gent who spent nine months as an audit associate at Grant Thornton’s Manchester office got a letter from them a year after leaving that apologized for inadvertently paying him less than minimum wage. Yavinka Mendis, a University of Manchester economics graduate, joined KPMG’s Manchester office as an audit associate in 2019.

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MyIRSRelief

MAY 19, 2023

Whether you are a small business owner, self-employed, or an individual taxpayer, you may face tax issues such as tax audits, back taxes, and 941 payroll tax problems. Regardless of the reason, a tax audit can be a stressful and time-consuming process, requiring you to gather and provide extensive documentation to support your tax returns.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

million earlier this week for breaking various Public Company Accounting Oversight Board auditing rules. Grant Thornton’s India arm and an Australian audit firm also received penalties from the PCAOB. 21 for “pervasive” quality control violations found in its audits of special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in 2020 and 2021.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Across the pond, EY is earning headlines for its abandoning the Wokingham Borough Council, a government locale in the southeast of England with a population of 177,500, after barely completing an audit for 2020/21. But after long delays, EY announced in February that it will leave two years’ audit reports incomplete.

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CPA Practice

MAY 15, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division cracked down on accounting and auditing rules violators in fiscal year 2022, as actions within that sector made up 15% of the 462 new or stand-alone cases initiated by the regulator last year, according to a new report from Cornerstone Research.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 28, 2022

It would be tough for PwC to top its 2020 inspection report as it was nearly blemish-free. Of the 52 audits reviewed by inspectors during that inspection cycle, only one mistake was found —related to the firm’s testing of controls over and substantive testing of revenue and related accounts and inventory—for a deficiency rate of 1.9%.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

million to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday to settle charges that it bungled audits of failed crypto asset trading platform FTX. From February 2021 to April 2022, Prager Metis issued two audit reports for FTX that falsely misrepresented that the audits complied with Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS).

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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. Here’s what happened.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 17, 2023

More than half of the audits of brokers and dealers inspected by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) last year had mistakes, as audit firms took a big step backwards from improvements they made in 2021. The PCAOB has released annual progress reports on the audits of broker-dealers since 2012. The results?

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Going Concern

AUGUST 4, 2022

FT reports that Financial Reporting Council CEO Sir Jon Thompson has a strong message to firms upset about getting hit with fines for bad auditing: git gud. The solution is entirely in [the audit firms’] hands. Do a good audit and you don’t get in trouble with us.”. Here, you dropped this. million (US$56.6

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CPA Practice

APRIL 2, 2024

The next chair of the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) Governing Board is Paul Knopp, U.S. I look forward to supporting the CAQ in executing their strategic agenda and supporting the profession as it embraces the future of financial reporting while maintaining a laser focus on investor protection through high-quality audits.”

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CPA Practice

APRIL 15, 2023

EY was considering splitting up its audit and consulting units to avoid suggestions of a conflict of interest between the two practices. leader Julie Boland would have overseen the audit business. Several countries won’t let firms do consulting work for companies they audit. One of the Big Four accounting giants in the U.S.,

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Going Concern

JULY 26, 2022

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

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 30, 2024

auditing standards over a 10-year period. According to the SEC, Hackert served as the engagement partner for at least 240 audits of public companies, including both operating companies and special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). These failures violated PCAOB auditing standards, the SEC said.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As reported by Canadian Accountant, PwC Canada has already paid Canadian and US audit regulators more than one million dollars in fines, after disclosing widespread sharing of answers by its accountants on internal training tests. Market studies would help drive improvements in the audit market, the FRC said.

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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. issued a clean audit report of Akazoo’s 2018 financial statements. The order finds that, by violating PCAOB standards in connection with the 2018 Akazoo audit, Crowe U.K., Crowe U.K.’s

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Going Concern

JULY 22, 2022

The firm has continued to show improvement, with an increase in the number of audits we assessed as requiring no more than limited improvements to 82% compared with 79% in the previous year and 80% on average over the past five years. It is also encouraging that none of the audits we inspected were found to require significant improvements.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 12, 2024

million in audit fees in 2022.) How did Deloitte, the auditing heavyweight watching over Tingo’s books, miss a scam that Hindenburg, an outsider, called out as painfully obvious? Audit Do former regulators improve the quality of audits? Audit Do former regulators improve the quality of audits? Tingo paid $1.6

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CPA Practice

APRIL 26, 2023

A new PCAOB staff report sheds light on an area where PCAOB inspectors have observed relatively high rates of audit deficiencies: special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). From 2020 to 2021, U.S. The staff report noted: The PCAOB reviewed 44 SPAC-related audits performed in 2021.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Overall, average audit fees increased by 4.6 Forty-seven percent of member company respondents also indicated an increase in effort to support the external audit while 51 percent reported no change year over year. percent from 2021 to 2022. Additional reasons cited were changes to ICFR followed by divestitures.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

We are here to talk about how Hindenburg sniffed out Adani’s audit firm and what it found. The only other listed entity we found that it audits has a market capitalization of about INR 640 million (U.S. Shah Dhandharia hardly seems capable of complex audit work. Shah Dhandharia seems to have no current website.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A new report released on Wednesday reveals that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) increased accounting and auditing enforcement actions by 22% last year, but monetary settlements dropped for a second straight year. Despite the SEC reporting $4.9 Table courtesy of Cornerstone Research.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Audit Private Equity’s Ties to Companies’ Auditors Have Never Been Closer. accounting firms will have either sold an ownership stake or part of their business to private-equity investors, up from zero in 2020, said Allan Koltin, chief executive at advisory firm Koltin Consulting Group. That Worries Some Regulators.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 21, 2023

The PCAOB said on Wednesday that the $3 million penalty it gave Marcum is the largest doled out to a “non-affiliate firm,” meaning an audit firm that isn’t a member of a global network. The SEC’s order said Marcum’s quality control failures were not limited to SPAC clients. “[T]he

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