Going Concern

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The PCAOB today announced settled disciplinary orders sanctioning Greece-based PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditing Company SA (PwC Greece) and its partner Nicos George Komodromos for violations of PCAOB rules and standards in connection with the audit of the 2016 financial statements of Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc.

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audit financial statements auditor accounting and finance 118

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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audit accounting firms Account accountant 98

Going Concern

JANUARY 8, 2024

Hey remember the Bloomberg story last March about how staff shortages at audit firms were causing municipal credit ratings to tank ? Refresher: Municipalities across the US are at risk of having their credit ratings downgraded or withdrawn by S&P Global Ratings because staffing shortages have delayed financial disclosure documents.

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Wyoming audit Government Montana 126

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

JULY 2, 2024

The other day, BDO USA released a press release entitled “BDO Strengthens Audit Quality Commitment with Addition of Second Independent Member on Audit Quality Advisory Council ,”the content of which strongly suggests that their next Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspection is going to be hot garbage.

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audit auditor financial statements Construction 116

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. We selected for review 54 audits of issuers with fiscal years generally ending in 2020. The most common Part I.A

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audit Real Estate financial statements auditor 110

Withum

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The AICPA Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. The Standard was originally effective for audits of employee benefit plan (EBP) financial statements subject to the ERISA for periods ending on or after December 15, 2020, but was delayed one year to December 15, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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audit auditor financial statements public accounting 84

Going Concern

MARCH 8, 2024

Audit SEC Settlement Against Auditing Firm Serves as Reminder of Important Independence Rules [ JD Supra ] On February 29, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) announced that it settled an administrative proceeding against Lordstown Motors Corps’ former auditor, Clark Schaefer Hackett and Co.

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audit auditor New York Legal 100

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

JANUARY 31, 2024

In an audit quality report released last week [ PDF ], the once flawless PwC admits its next PCAOB inspection report will be twice as bad as the last one. deficiency rate with just one mistake found in 52 audits inspected. deficiency rate with just one mistake found in 52 audits inspected.

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audit auditor financial statements 119

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. Nearly every financial decision is tied to a financial report, and with many deadlines approaching for annual and quarterly financial statement filings, there’s a pressing need for audited financial statements.

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accounting firms CPA Technology Account 139

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. Nearly every financial decision is tied to a financial report, and with many deadlines approaching for annual and quarterly financial statement filings, there’s a pressing need for audited financial statements.

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accounting firms CPA Technology Account 135

Going Concern

JUNE 21, 2022

The big hurdle in EY’s plan to split audit and consulting lies in whether or not its partners want to take the risk per earlier Wall Street Journal coverage in which people familiar with the matter told WSJ its roughly 12,000 partners will need to vote to approve the spinoff. increase over 2020’s $37.2 billion (up 5.8%).

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audit Healthcare Transportation financial statements 122

Withum

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Audited financial statements are a cornerstone of the financial markets. Tonight I will conduct my second Auditing class session of this semester at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and I will be teaching what the auditor’s opinion means and what auditors do to arrive at their opinion.

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accounting principles auditor financial statements audit 119

Going Concern

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Audit Fees Rise Only 2.5%, But Audits Require Greater Effort [ CFO ]. and 2.3%, respectively, in 2021, according to the Financial Education & Research Foundation’s Public Company Audit Fee Study. India Launches Audit Inspections After Spate Of Scandals [ Bloomberg Tax ].

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audit auditor Louisiana cpas 98

Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

data center industry on the national economy between 2017-2021, adding $2.1 The 2023 Forum on Auditing in the Small Business Environment and on Auditing Broker-Dealers is set for Oct. The 2023 Forum on Auditing in the Small Business Environment and on Auditing Broker-Dealers is set for Oct. trillion to the U.S.

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audit accounting and finance Virginia auditor 109

Going Concern

JANUARY 25, 2023

Based on the 2021 PCAOB inspection reports we ’ve reviewed so far, the audit firm that would win the “most improved” award is RSM US. From 2017 to 2020, RSM had an average yearly audit failure rate of 42%, including failing 46% of its audits reviewed by PCAOB inspectors in 2020.

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audit auditor financial statements Account 52

Going Concern

AUGUST 22, 2024

Perhaps our own regulators could learn a thing or two from China about handing down punishments to audit firms. ” “The inaccurate statements and false allegations could tarnish PwC’s reputation and infringe our legal rights,” added that statement. Yeah, it’s a little worse than a hit to reputation.

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audit auditor financial statements Legal 105

Going Concern

MAY 31, 2023

Along with KPMG CEO Paul Knopp and KPMG Global Chairman and CEO Bill Thomas, the suit names Global Head of Audit Larry Bradley, Deputy Chair and Chief Operating Officer Laura Newinski, Global Head of Clients and Markets Regina Mayor, and the long-exited former Global Chairman John B. The docket number is No. Thornburgh et al ).

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audit New York Non-Profits auditor 111

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.

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audit auditor financial statements Account 52

Going Concern

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Assuming no one but select audit partners actually read this crap, let’s take a look at how auditors should expect increased vigilance in 2024 so everyone can be better informed and stock up on KY. These include prior inspection results and the emerging risks pertaining to a particular audit firm or industry.

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auditor audit financial statements 119

Going Concern

JULY 26, 2023

Williams does not have severe audit firm-induced trichotillomania (to our knowledge) because here she is again warning auditors that the PCAOB is tired of them being so terrible at auditing. To get her point across she had to write a whole-ass op-ed in the Wall Street Journal : High-quality audits are essential to the integrity of U.S.

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audit auditor financial statements Start-ups 98

Withum

JUNE 27, 2022

Now that we are halfway through the new year, most companies have wrapped up their books and records for 2021 and sent them to their accounting professionals for tax and audit preparation. Even though internal records are not the same as an audited financial statement, they are still useful resources to third parties.

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bookkeeping financial statements accounting and finance audit 123

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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audit auditor financial statements Account 52

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. As we allege in these enforcement actions, Prager Metis fell short in all of these areas,” Gurbir Grewal, director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, said in a statement.

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audit auditor cpas financial statements 59

Going Concern

MAY 11, 2022

While there were plenty of accountants who behaved badly in 2021 , the accounting profession as a whole was fairly well-behaved and competent last year, according to a new report from Cornerstone Research. Consistent with that overall trend, SPAC filings that include accounting allegations tripled in 2021 as compared to the prior year.

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Account accountant accounted accounting principles 59

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 In FY 2023, the SEC initiated 11 actions against non-U.S.

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audit Account accountant accounted 64

CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Overall, average audit fees increased by 4.6 percent from 2021 to 2022. 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. Additional reasons cited were changes to ICFR followed by divestitures.

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audit auditor financial statements Education 52

Going Concern

JANUARY 9, 2023

A PCAOB inspections leader offers his insight to auditors at a conference: “The role of the financial statement auditor and the auditing profession continues to be a noble endeavor that has never been more needed and vital to our economic stability and the well-being of our capital markets,” said George Botic, CPA.

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CPA auditor Tax Account 105

Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Deloitte UK said revenue grew 14% to £5.6bn in the year to May, as buoyant markets in the first six months of its financial year bolstered demand for audit and advisory work. It helped offset the “increased caution” among more cash-strapped clients and a slowdown in merger and acquisition activity in the months that followed.

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auditor audit New York CPA 111

Going Concern

JULY 26, 2024

He remains active in business as a member of the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee Chair for The Reserve Petroleum Company. Ditzler is also a member of the audit committee of the Oklahoma City Community Foundation. Eddy Ditzler is retired from public accounting and lives in Edmond, Oklahoma, with his wife of 39 years, Deniece.

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Oklahoma audit South Dakota accounting firms 105

Going Concern

APRIL 12, 2024

Williams made the following statement today at a virtual press conference: Since 2021, the PCAOB has sanctioned nine registered firms for exam cheating. Audit firms currently must publicly identify the lead partner on the audits they perform and the other firms that helped with that work. Tesla Korea was subjected to 25.1

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CPA auditor Tax audit 105

CPA Practice

JUNE 10, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) doled out $150,000 worth of total fines to a Plantation, FL-based CPA firm on June 10 for violations related to quality control, auditing failures, and missing Form AP deadlines. for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021. for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021.

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audit cpas Florida auditor 52

CPA Practice

AUGUST 18, 2023

14 over various mistakes the firm made during its 2018 audit of music streaming company Akazoo. issued a clean audit report of Akazoo’s 2018 financial statements. made false statements in its audit report when it claimed that Akazoo fairly presented its financial statements in all material respects for 2018.

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audit financial statements auditor accounting firms 52

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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Withum

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Accounting Standards Update 2021-07 Determining the Current Price of an Underlying Share for Equity-Classified Share-Based Awards was issued to address concerns raised by stakeholders about the cost and complexity of determining the fair value of equity classified share awards for private companies.

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audit financial statements auditor accounting standards 52

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. auditing requirements in its component audits of U.S.

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