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In ongoing accounting crunch, where to go for sales tax help?

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More generally, accounting talent pool concerns are pressing even for accounting firms , as enrollment rates of accounting students continue to fall. The accounting education pipeline is drier than ever even as accounting degrees require many additional course hours. There were about 1.65

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Friday Footnotes: The PCAOB-to-Practice Pipeline and Audit Quality; Ball Extension; Tim Ryan’s Replacement | 1.12.24

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Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Long Reads How Auditor Deloitte Missed A Nigerian Company’s Massive Fraud [ Forbes ] Hindenburg Research, known for sniffing out corporate scams, took aim in June at an obscure Nigeria-based outfit named Tingo Group.

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EY Reports a Rise in Naughty Behavior Now That People Have Returned to the Office

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The death DM’s headline mentions is potentially relevant to bullying and harassment at the firm. 27-year-old senior auditor Aishwarya Venkatachalam told a friend before she died in August that things weren’t going so great at EY Sydney. We’ll take their word on that. ” Ms. . ” Ms.

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College Accounting Programs Are Taxpayer-Funded Training Programs for the Big 4 and Other Such Muckraking

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The AACSB only accredits those schools providing the Big 4 demanded curricula, eliminating from accreditation any school offering alternative small-business accounting education tracks to the exclusion of nearly ½ of American businesses. Before I address this problem, here are a few headlines about the people that make the rules.

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The Beef Between the AICPA and Minnesota Over the 150 Hour Rule Heats Up

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For public accounting firms in Minnesota: Minnesota public accounting firms, no longer being able to practice freely across state lines, would need to provide advance notice and gain a practice permit before signing any client engagement agreement or providing any public accounting service.

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Friday Footnotes: The Metaverse’s First CPA Firm Gets Sued; CPA Exam Blueprints; Mad Mergers | 1.6.23

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So customers have filed more than a half-dozen proposed class actions against the NFL’s Tom Brady, accounting firm Prager Metis and Bankman-Fried as an individual, among others. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, but employment in accounting and bookkeeping services fell by 1,100 jobs.

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Friday Footnotes: ‘KPMG Did Not Know What They Were Doing’; Are You Boring?; PCAOB Warns About Confirmations | 3.25.22

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Many firms turn to third-party service providers to send and receive electronic audit confirmations to and from “confirming parties,” including banks, financial institutions, investment and brokerage firms, and law firms. In some cases, auditing firms may be relying too heavily on such outside companies.