CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The question in the title of this article is one the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) recently tried to answer for some members of Congress who asked the IRS watchdog to evaluate employees moving between large accounting firms and the IRS, often referred to as the “revolving door.”

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Going Concern

AUGUST 11, 2022

If there’s anything we love here at Going Concern it is an accounting firm dick-measuring contest. Whatever you call it, we love when firms are pitted against one another based on impartial metrics like revenue. INSIDE Public Accounting has blessed us with a fresh Top 500 Firms list which means lots and lots of measuring.

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Going Concern

MAY 26, 2023

The accounting firm is embroiled in a national scandal over its use of confidential information about proposed tax laws to drum up business. million to federal political parties from July 2012 to June 2022, and when KPMG ($1.1 Marcum had audited Riot’s consolidated financial statements for the fiscal years between 2018 and 2022.

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Going Concern

APRIL 19, 2022

Another year, another first-place finish for PwC in Vault’s ranking of the most prestigious public accounting firms. At this point, you can just pencil in PwC as being the most prestigious firm now until the end of time. Vault then averaged the prestige scores for each firm and ranked them in order.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 2, 2023

Abdo is ranked as a Top 25 Accounting Firm by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, was named as a 2022 Regional Leader in the accounting industry by Accounting Today, and has been recognized by Inside Public Accounting as one of the top 200 largest accounting firms in the nation.

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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2022

Two public accounting firms that have benefited from the crazy wave of SPACs over the past two to three years are Marcum and Withum. For example, 1,046 companies went public last year —612 via SPAC, 427 via traditional IPO, and seven via direct listing. IPOs Cool Off: Q1 2022 IPO Trends [ Audit Analytics ].

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Going Concern

JULY 26, 2022

After a slow first quarter of 2022 , initial public offerings didn ’t take off in the second quarter either. billion raised by those 46 companies that went public was the smallest amount since the first quarter of 2016 ($2.9 Q2 2022 Initial Public Offering Trends: 2022 Slowdown Continues [ Audit Analytics ].

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Going Concern

AUGUST 18, 2022

That level being $3 billion —a first in the firm ’s 96-year, multinamed history. In its 2022 annual report , which was released earlier this week, RSM US noted that its revenue for the year ending April 30 was $3.3 billion ($3,310,265,000 according to INSIDE Public Accounting ), a 15% increase over its 2021 revenue of nearly $2.9

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Going Concern

APRIL 23, 2022

The last of the Big 4 to be ranked in the 2022 Fortune BCTWF and the one that took the biggest drop over the last year is the proudest and trustiest firm of them all, PwC. Number of job openings: 6,764 (as of March 2022). We’ll finish up our coverage of the 2022 Fortune BCTWF next week. Percentage of women: N/A.

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Cherry Bekaert

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) recently released its Fiscal Year 2022 Report to Congress. Contact Us The post Insights Into DCAA’s Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2022 appeared first on Cherry Bekaert. By law, the DCAA is required to submit an annual report detailing the DCAA’s activities for the previous year.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 16, 2022

CFOs Convey Cautious Outlook for 2023, as Pessimism Over Economic Conditions Prevails: Deloitte CFO Signals Survey 4Q 2022 [ PR Newswire ]. Writes Jeff John Roberts: All this raises the question of why, if they are looking to build trust, Binance and the others didn’t hire one of the Big Four accounting firms to conduct their audits.

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Going Concern

APRIL 14, 2022

When it comes to the Fortune BCTWF, gone are the days of the Big 4 firms being ranked among, say, the top 50 companies and then you have a midtier public accounting firm or two ranked somewhere between Nos. Case in point, the 2022 BCTWF ranking. Number of job openings: 5,760 (as of March 2022). 51 and 100.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 21, 2024

By Jozsef Papp The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS) A woman charged in an August 2022 Midtown shooting spree that resulted in the death of two men and the injuring of another is not competent to stand trial at this time, a judge has ruled. Freeman was Kengne’s direct supervisor at BDO USA, a public accounting firm, between 2018 and 2021.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) revoked the registration of a Chinese audit firm on Nov. First, on multiple occasions, the accounting firm failed to timely report the participants in its issuer audits on PCAOB Form AP, in violation of PCAOB Rule 3211, Auditor Reporting of Certain Audit Participants.

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Ryan Lazanis

APRIL 4, 2022

Do you want to know how to start a bookkeeping business or accounting firm in 2022? In fact, these are the very steps that I followed to help take my heavily bookkeeping-focused accounting business from scratch to sale in only 5 years. You pick the date that makes the most sense for you and your accounting firm.

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Going Concern

MARCH 21, 2022

Last month we dove into the 2022 Vault rankings of the best consulting firms to work for and the consulting firms with the most prestige , with an eye on how the Big 4 firms fared in each. Related articles: Vault 50: Only One Big 4 Firm’s Consulting Arm Made the Top 10 (2022).

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Going Concern

APRIL 6, 2022

As of February 2022, inflation in the United States has hit a 40-year high at 7.9%; the last time inflation was this bad, many of you weren’t even alive so yay, think of this like Halley’s Comet, some day in the distant future you’ll get to say “I was there!”

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KROST

APRIL 7, 2022

Pasadena, CA – KROST was recognized as one of Los Angeles Business Journals’ Top 100 Accounting Firms in Los Angeles County, with 78% growth in revenue between 2020 and 2019, the firm is ranked 22 nd on the list. Our firm is honored to be recognized by the Los Angeles Business Journal yet again.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 18, 2022

CohnReznick announced a merger with Dallas firm BKM Sowan Horan and the Dallas Morning News took the opportunity to trumpet the happy nuptials of the official accounting firm of the Dallas Cowboys. Dallas Morning News : CohnReznick, the 15th largest accounting firm in the U.S. because it offers something different.

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Going Concern

JULY 25, 2024

Overall, the revenues of the Big Four have increased from $28 billion (2000) to $79 billion (2022); this represents a 183% increase over 23 years. The increase in overall revenue was interrupted by a decrease in total revenues from 2004 to 2006, during which time the firms (except for Deloitte) sold off their advisory service practices.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 12, 2023

post-secondary accounting degrees fell sharply in the 2021-22 academic year, according to a biennial American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) report on trends related to accounting graduation rates, the CPA Exam and hiring demand by accounting firms. The number of students earning U.S.

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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. Has the CPA license entered a death spiral?

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Going Concern

JUNE 23, 2023

The Orange County Business Journal has published “ Accounting Firms on Hiring Binge for 2nd Straight Year ” and in it we find out that the 48 largest firms on their annual list of accounting firms reported an 11% increase in local hires to 6,676 employees for 2022, up from 9.6% the year prior.

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Going Concern

APRIL 23, 2024

consulting partners by more than 50% compared with last year as demand for advisory services continues to slow and the firm reorganizes its business lines. The Big Four accounting firm is considering adding about 85 U.S. The figures include both partners and principals, which are partners who aren’t certified public accountants.

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Going Concern

APRIL 11, 2022

1 bestest company for 2022, according to Fortune , is Cysco Systems. That category also includes seven public accounting firms that are among the 15 largest in the US by revenue. So we’ll start our coverage of the 2022 BCTWF with the highest-ranked among them: Deloitte at No. And the No. Congrats to them.

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Going Concern

APRIL 18, 2022

Vault today released its newest ranking of the best public accounting firms to work for , and it’s a slimmed-down version for 2023: the number of firms ranked went from 50 (as has been the case for many years) to 25. The top five firms in the 2023 Vault Accounting 25 are the same as in 2022 and 2021.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 31, 2023

Suttle & Stalnaker, PLLC, a full-service certified public accounting and consulting firm with offices in West Virginia, will celebrate 50 years of serving clients in and around the Mountain State in 2023. Jack” Suttle and David H.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 5, 2022

The most DYNAMIC firm in all of public accounting recently had comp discussions, according to r/accounting. So we went on r/accounting and looked at the 2022 , 2021 (and this thread on Fishbowl) 2019 , and 2018 comp threads, as well as the 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , and 2013 comp threads on Going Concern.

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Going Concern

MAY 9, 2023

This is from CNN Philippines in March : The country is facing a shortage of accountants as college enrollment for this field of study dropped while those licensed chose to work abroad, a group of certified public accountants said on Friday. There are about 200,000 certified public accountants (CPAs) as of 2023.

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Going Concern

JULY 27, 2022

One year after cracking $2 billion in revenue for the first time, BDO USA added another 25% to that total during its fiscal year 2022 which ended on April 30. BDO reported revenue of $2,490,400,000 in 2022, up from $2,000,300,000 in 2021. According to Accounting Today ’s 2022 Top 100 Firms ranking, RSM US reported revenue of $3.13

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Withum

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

All publicly owned companies must have audited financial statements that contain a report of the registered independent accounting firm performing the audit. The Report of the independent registered public accounting firm provides their opinion that the financial statements were in conformity with U.S.

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Withum

DECEMBER 16, 2022

On December 12, 2022, Martinez & Associates, a public accounting firm headquartered in Winter Springs, FL, announced it will join its practice with WithumSmith+Brown, PC (Withum), a nationally recognized CPA and advisory firm with 20 offices and annual revenue of $450M, ranking in the top 25 firms in the country.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 29, 2023

Accounting is a field with high demand, and successful accounting students are virtually guaranteed employment upon (or even prior to) graduation. I’m involved in recruiting for one of the largest accounting firms in Connecticut. Yes, accountants have incredible lifetime earning potential. . The CPA exam is hard.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The initial public offering slump of 2022 continued in the third quarter, as the 39 IPOs that raised a combined $3.1 The amount raised in Q3 2022 is the smallest since the first quarter of 2016 when a combined $2.9 were the only other firms with multiple IPO clients, according to Audit Analytics. billion was raised.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The report also recommends that these private firms be limited to 400 partners, and that they be prevented from offering both audit and non-audit work – like consulting services – to the same client. This would be a big blow for firms such as PwC which, in 2022, received more than $79 million in fees from Macquarie Group alone.

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KROST

MAY 10, 2022

“PrimeGlobal is delighted that 13 North American member firms are included in Accounting Today’s Top 100 Firm List 2022. Accounting Today’s Top 100 Firms and Regional Leaders is an annual ranking that recognizes the largest tax and accounting firms by revenue, both nationwide and in specific regions.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

One idea that has been batted around and deployed on a limited basis is integrating work experience in public accounting and college credit to grant units toward the additional 30 required. ” Mehta made mention of an AICPA program in development to help firms and students alike.

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