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AICPA Recognizes Top 2022 CPA Exam Performers with Elijah Watt Sells Award

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Victoria Saravia Bazoberry (New York), a graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Business Administration in accountancy, is employed with KPMG LLP in New York, NY. Sells, one of the first CPAs in the U.S., was active in the establishment of the AICPA and played a key role in advancing education within the profession.

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Friday Footnotes: CPA Exam Scares Accounting Majors Away; EY Loses Fees in China | 5.12.23

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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. Working in the Big Four seems to be more limited to just like, CFO or chief finance type roles.” The accountancy sector is no exception. Investment banking was more versatile, he said.

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AICPA News – June 2023

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AICPA & CIMA Now Offers New Learning Tools for Accounting Professionals The AICPA & CIMA recently announced the offering of anew online learning platform to help accounting and finance professionals improve and update their skills to take advantage of a digital accelerating business environment.

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SEC Reignites Supply Chain Finance Debate

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Securities and Exchange Commission is turning its attention to a lack of transparency within corporates’ investor disclosures as more businesses use supply chain financing. Reports in Bloomberg Tax this week said SEC Corporation Finance Deputy Chief Accountant Lindsay McCord spoke Tuesday (Dec. Rising Criticism.

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AICPA News – July 2024

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AICPA News is a collection of recent announcements from the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. The survey polls chief executive officers, chief financial officers, controllers and other certified public accountants in U.S. A complete copy of the report can be found on aicpa.org.

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Friday Footnotes: Accounting’s Big Lie; BDO Poaching; EY Partners Get Whipped | 10.07.22

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Big 4 accounting firms reap record-high revenues [ The Korea Times ]. The big four accounting firms in Korea posted all-time-high annual revenues last year, due mainly to double-digit year-on-year growth rates recorded in M&As and consulting services. Accounting Firm’s Counterfeit Claim Fails in Similar Name Suit [ Bloomberg Law ].

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Researchers Shockingly Discover That If You Pay Low Level Grunts More, They Do Better Financial Reporting

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’23, of the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business has found a connection between how well low-ranking accountants are paid and the quality of their work. However, accounting employees who become aware of attempts to misreport might have incentives to take remedial actions rather than participate.

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