CPA Practice

AUGUST 28, 2024

Origins of the Award In the latter 1990s, the connectivity of the newly adopted internet quickly started to transform how the accounting profession operated within firms and served clients. as they promise to dramatically improve client services, firm management, small business accounting and many other areas of operations.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Sangeeta Chhabra Efficiency and speed matter more than ever in today’s business environment—and for the majority of accounting firms. These services scale IT infrastructure to help accountants speed up accounting services, manage the workforce, adhere to global compliances, and lower operational costs.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Public accounting firms in the United States reported strong top-line and bottom-line growth in their latest fiscal year results, driven by high demand for their services, according to a survey by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. That rate eclipses the 4.2%

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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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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 listed Chinese companies conducted by KPMG’s affiliate in mainland China and PwC’s member firm in Hong Kong. Today’s reports are a powerful first step toward accountability.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The sessions and CPE fields of study for Ensuring Success 2023 have been announced. Ensuring Success will be held December 6-7, 2023. This is the original, completely virtual online CPE conference for accounting and tax pros, so you can attend and earn free CPE credits from the comfort of your office. DAY ONE (Dec.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The sessions and CPE fields of study for Ensuring Success 2023 have been announced. Ensuring Success will be held December 6-7, 2023. This is the original, completely virtual online CPE conference for accounting and tax pros, so you can attend and earn free CPE credits from the comfort of your office. DAY ONE (Dec.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 17, 2023

2%) ————– – Sales & Use Tax Exemption Certificate Management Insight : One of the highest sales tax audit risks (after non-compliance) involves management of exemption certificates. WINNER: TheTaxBook – Tax Materials Inc. Voters were allowed to select more than one, so totals exceed 100%.

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CPA Practice

JULY 9, 2023

the developer of the award-winning cloud-based audit automation platform, has announced aquired Advantage Audit from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Advantage Audit is an audit planning aid and audit program series designed to help auditors comply with risk-based professional standards in a straightforward and efficient manner.

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CPA Practice

MAY 15, 2024

The technologies used in professional accounting firms continue to evolve and shape how practices function, from client service, to staffing issues, and overall management and growth. And following dire budget conditions during and following the pandemic, states have greatly increased their sales tax audit activity.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Before I look back on what I think were the best posts (ranked arbitrarily by me), allow me to resurrect this post from January 7: Let’s Start the Year Off With Some Doomsaying Predictions For the Profession in 2023. Yes, let’s. Surprise, the tech people didn’t want to work for EY.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 11, 2023

Technologists Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley, CPA, discuss the 2023 Accounting Firm Operations and Technology Survey (AFOT). Today we’d like to talk to you about the accounting firm Operations and Technology Survey. Use the podcast player below to listen. SPEAKERS Randy Johnston, Brian F.

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CPA Practice

MAY 5, 2023

Fortune recently released its 26th annual ranking of the 100 best companies to work for , and the business magazine’s list for 2023 includes seven of the top 15 biggest accounting firms in the U.S. The following seven accounting firms made Fortune’s top 100 this year. million workers across the country.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 22, 2024

A top midtier accounting firm ended 2023 by having the most new initial public offering (IPO) audit clients in the fourth quarter, as the number of companies going public dropped compared to the previous quarter, according to an analysis by Ideagen Audit Analytics. million per company.

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Going Concern

JULY 19, 2023

See: The 259th Largest Accounting Firm Is Paying For Unlicensed Staff to Pursue a Master’s at the 87th Best Online Business School More than 90 Clayton & McKervey shareholders and associates will join Wipfli (revenue of $506.7 million), bringing the headcount to about 3,300. Moving up in the world!

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

At Mazars, she specializes in accounting and auditing for transportation and logistics. It features career-development workshops and sessions with some of the accounting profession’s most prominent influencers. For more information about Accounting Opportunities Month, please visit bit.ly/TXAOM23.

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ThomsonReuters

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In an era of staffing shortages and scarcity of technical tax professionals , accounting firms must increasingly look outside the box to fill gaps in talent. Many firms are shifting their hunt for talent beyond the traditional accounting background.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

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. The 2023 Forum on Auditing in the Small Business Environment and on Auditing Broker-Dealers is set for Oct.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 12, 2024

The auditor in question was Deloitte, the behemoth Big Four accounting firm with annual revenue of $65 billion through a global network that stretches from Amsterdam to Zhengzhou. million in audit fees in 2022.) Audit Do former regulators improve the quality of audits? Tingo paid $1.6

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Given the significant changes in the auditing environment since that time, the PCAOB made it a priority to modernize and update those rules. 1, A Firm’s System of Quality Management , adopted by the AICPA. In 2023, only 14 audit firms out of a total of more than 1,600 registered with the PCAOB met the 100-issuer-or-more threshold.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 19, 2023

As a leader in your firm, you likely have ambitious goals to impact your clients’ bottom lines and grow your firm. But to reach those objectives, you need a team, and that’s becoming increasingly difficult to find if you’re hiring accountants. Fortunately, it is possible to grow your team and meet your goals.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Over the last week we ’ve taken a look at projected public accounting starting salaries in 2023 for eight cities with a high cost of living and 12 cities with a medium cost of living , and how those salaries compare to the national averages contained in the 2023 Robert Half Accounting & Finance Salary Guide.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 5, 2023

Pitter Presidential Scholarship will to honor the legacy of Pitter, who is set to retire on December 31, 2023. On May 1, 2023, the Society announced that Pitter was retiring and Deputy CEO Zach Donah, CAE, would succeed her as President and CEO effective January 1, 2024.

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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. Since that meeting, the PCAOB fined three firms a total of $145,000 on Nov.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

A new survey from lease optimization software provider Visual Lease has found that, while 70% of senior real estate executives reported that their businesses are looking to add space as a part of their 2023 real estate strategy, 88% are planning for physical space needs just one year or less in advance.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

audit workforce—that they would be losing their jobs in the coming weeks, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The job cuts will impact employees such as audit associates and managers but not partners, according to the WSJ. The reason for the layoffs: low levels of voluntary turnover at the Big Four accounting firm.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 5, 2023

Shekel joins the firm with more than 20 years of experience, focused primarily on valuation services. Prior to joining FORVIS, Shekel led the valuation advisory services for professional M&A and accounting firms with a focus on middle-market business development companies, private-equity funds, and real estate entities.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 15, 2023

EY client Bank of America sent a similar notice to its customers last week , that notice did not go into detail as to the why an accounting firm would have had access to this customer information like Popular’s does. Upon learning of the incident, PwC immediately launched an investigation and ceased using the impacted software.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A Big Four accounting firm audited the most companies going public in the third quarter of this year, as total initial public offerings increased 32% over the second quarter, according to a new analysis by Ideagen Audit Analytics. So far there have been 125 IPOs in 2023 that have raised roughly $19.7

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Investing in technology is a key priority for accounting firms as they move into 2024, while m itigating the ongoing talent shortage and keeping pace with new laws continue to cause challenges for many within the profession. Caseware explores worldwide perspectives within the accounting and audit professions annually.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 9, 2024

In September we were tipped to a developing situation at US mid-tier audit firms in which said firms started shuttering their public company audit practices. It means the watchdog will only conduct inspections of the firm’s “public interest entity” audits every three years, rather than every 12 months.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The tax and audit practice, through affiliate BSR & Co, will be excluded from the merged entity and could be made into a separate entity, though that is still under discussion, the people said requesting anonymity. In 2018, Veritas Capital, which invests in businesses at the intersection of government and technology, acquired the U.S.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 15, 2023

One of the Big Four accounting giants in the U.S., 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. Today’s Big Four accounting firms, ranked by 2022 revenue Deloitte: $59.3

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CPA Practice

APRIL 22, 2024

The 10 accounting firms that had the most public company audit clients in 2023 are the same 10 firms atop the table in auditor market share so far in 2024, with EY leading the way as of Jan. But the Big Four firm’s roster of public company audit clients has shrunk from 1,004 last year.

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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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Ryan Lazanis

MAY 24, 2023

Here is my complete guide to emerging accounting technologies for 2023. In this guide, you’ll learn about the top accounting technology in the profession along with some tips and tricks on how to leverage them. So if you’re looking to leverage software to automate your accounting work, you’ll love this guide.

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CPA Practice

MAY 15, 2023

The Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS), in partnership with the ICPAS Women’s Committee, presented the recipients of the prestigious 2023 Women to Watch Awards at the ICPAS Women’s Leadership Forum last Friday, May 12, 2023, in Chicago, where they received their awards and participated in a panel discussion on advancing women in the accounting profession.

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