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Accountants Behaving Badly: Police Department Accountant Couldn’t Be Bothered, PPP Loan Fraud, and a Creepy Tax Preparer

Going Concern

It’s been a while since we’ve done an Accountants Behaving Badly megapost ( 381 days ago , actually), here’s some bad behavior you may have missed. Twice-Convicted Accountant Is Charged With Embezzling More Than $1.1 Palos Hills Accountant Indicted In $7.8M This stock photo is incredible.

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How Shohei Ohtanis’ Interpreter’s Theft of $16.5 Million Occurred and Went Undetected for Years

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According to a federal indictment and a guilty plea, Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter, unlawfully transferred more than $16 million from Ohtani’s bank account at a bank in Arizona to pay his gambling debts to an illegal bookmaking operation. During the account setup, Mizuhara translated for Ohtani.

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Review of Liscio – The Accounting Technology Lab Podcast – Oct. 2024

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Hosts Brian Tankersley, CPA, and Randy Johnston review Liscio , a client experience platform that centralizes communication, document collection, and task management for accounting firms. Randy Johnston 00:10 Welcome to today’s Accounting Technology Lab. So went into the accounting software world. Very appreciative of it.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: A Billionaire KPMG Alum; EY Split Stalled (Again); NSA Accountants | 11.14.22

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.” You’re probably going to hear a lot about FTX in coming weeks, for now former and current auditors Armanino and Prager Metis face scrutiny over FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt crypto empire ( CoinDesk also joined us in ripping on the Prager Metis metaverse space ). listed casino businesses operate.

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Friday Footnotes: Anyone Wanna Work in Hollywood?; Profit-Hungry CEOs Love Gen AI; KPMG’s SF Future | 1.19.24

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Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. And take our 2024 Predictions for the Accounting Profession survey ! Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default.

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Friday Footnotes: An Outsourcing Shortage Now Too?; Finally, Some Disruption; PwC Haters Celebrate Government Inquiry | 3.17.23

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Restoring Exam credits expired during COVID would help address CPA shortage [ AICPA ] The accounting profession is confronted with a talent shortage, and reinstating CPA exam credits that have expired since January 1, 2020, could have an immediate impact on our CPA pipeline. Certainly, credit goes to all who are attempting to do something.

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BaFin Downplayed Wirecard Complaints, Report Says

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The regulator handed the ball to other authorities, and in some cases, put off investigating the company’s accounts, according to new documents seen by WSJ. But BaFin didn’t take any action on those warnings, instead playing them down for years.