Going Concern

MAY 26, 2023

Long Read How a Pandemic-Era Program Became a Magnet for Fraud [ New York Times ] Amid the onset of the pandemic in 2020, as large swaths of the economy went into lockdown, Washington set up various programs to help keep businesses and their workers afloat. million to federal political parties from July 2012 to June 2022, and when KPMG ($1.1

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The London-based global accounting firm officially known as PricewaterhouseCoopers International is in talks to lease three floors at a new office building at 3155 Olsen Drive, across from Santana Row in West San Jose, the San Jose Mercury News reported, citing unidentified sources.

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Going Concern

MAY 20, 2024

PwC is facing legal action claiming the accountancy firm is liable for the alleged rape of a graduate employee following after-work drinks. Auditors are required to include a going-concern warning if they believe there is a risk that the company may go bankrupt, rather than making a prediction that it will. There were 8.5

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CPA Practice

APRIL 11, 2023

Brian Yujuico has been named vice president and senior chief auditor at AuditClub, the Audit Service Center and creator of the innovative auditors-as-a-service model. In this newly created role, Yujuico, a Certified Public Accountant, will oversee day-to-day activities of the growing team of chief auditors, crew and cadets.

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Going Concern

MAY 31, 2024

Municipal Dumpster Fires Woonsocket city council respond to auditors abruptly quitting [ WLNE Providence ] Shout-out Mary Sahady who finally had enough of this b t and told this messy client to get bent. Woonsocket officials are hoping city auditors will change their mind, after they abruptly quit this past week.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

While most people were too cautious to say that the successful inspection of Chinese firms could mean a new era of cooperation between China and the PCAOB, this week we have learned that any of those people who thought that would happen are probably going to be disappointed. It seems China did not take too kindly to that.

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Going Concern

MAY 12, 2023

Talent Why Graduates Aren’t Hot on Accounting Careers: Low Starting Pay, Onerous Testing [ Wall Street Journal ] For Connor Verrett, an economics major and entrepreneurship minor at Washington & Lee University who expects to graduate this month, that roadblock was among the factors he considered in eschewing an accounting career. “It

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Going Concern

MARCH 16, 2022

The big news in the accounting profession yesterday afternoon from Dave Michaels of the Wall Street Journal was that the SEC is investigating the Big 4 and other public accounting firms on whether the consulting and non-audit services they sell to clients is conflicting with their independence as the auditors of said clients.

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Going Concern

MAY 28, 2024

The local news in Cincinnati covered this strategic move : One of Greater Cincinnati’s largest accounting firms is being acquired by an Indianapolis company. Blue Ash-based tax, advisory and audit firm Cassady Schiller CPAs & Advisors will become part of Katz, Sapper & Miller in a transaction that will be completed May 31.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In Australia, EY is still bungling this one up : EY accidentally leaked the personal details of current and former employees while trying to launch a massive review into the firm’s workplace culture. Yet that is what the IRS deals with every day.” From FloQast : Six in ten (63%) U.K.

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CPA Practice

JULY 30, 2024

But a recent industry survey found that 42% of accounting firms are doing exactly that. Separate research from Robert Half for the 2024 Demand for Skilled Talent report confirms that most hiring managers for accounting and finance organizations (87%) are facing challenges recruiting talent right now. By Steve Saah. The reason?

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Fun President’s Day fact: although the third Monday in February is meant to recognize the birthdays of both first president George Washington and original hipster Abraham Lincoln, only Washington’s birthday — February 22 — is officially recognized in federal law ( 5 U.S. Everyone’s out buying mattresses.

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Going Concern

MAY 5, 2023

The models can read documents and pull-out information that auditors are looking for. “It It makes doing audits much faster, eliminating some of the human error, providing move value to some of the accounting audit work that we do for our clients,” he said. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)

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CPA Practice

JUNE 24, 2024

But a recent industry survey found that 42% of accounting firms are doing exactly that. Separate research from Robert Half for the 2024 Demand for Skilled Talent report confirms that most hiring managers for accounting and finance organizations (87%) are facing challenges recruiting talent right now. The reason?

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Going Concern

JUNE 17, 2024

ProPublica did a story on “how remote work and artificial intelligence are ushering in new kinds of fraud in state and local governments” and interviewed Washington state auditor Brandi Pritchard. As far as we can tell, it’s the largest government misappropriation [by an employee] in Washington state’s history.

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Going Concern

APRIL 6, 2022

Tax accountant, 1-3 years’ experience: 1.6%. Entry-level tax accountant: 2.6%. Senior auditor: 1.6%. Auditor, 1-3 years’ experience: 2.2%. Entry-level auditor: 1.6%. The AP guide was released in November 2021 and estimates that accounting salaries are expected to rise 6.4% Audit and assurance services.

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Going Concern

JULY 29, 2024

Oh and reminder: the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is working on a plan to consolidate India’s 96,000 little accountancy firms into mega-firms that they think could compete with Big 4 on the global stage. INSIDE Public Accounting continues to tease the upcoming release of the IPA 500.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Tax and accountancy firm Grant Thornton Malaysia PLT has come out to defend its managing director Datuk Narendrakumar Chunilai (NK Jasani), who was slapped with money laundering charges involving RM115 million belonging to Sabah Forest Industries Sdn Bhd (SFI). Firm M&A. to Yum China Holdings Inc.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Several of America’s largest accounting firms have explored the possibility of taking private equity cash in recent months , as money from buyout funds adds fuel to a mergers and acquisitions boom across the industry, reports FT. An article about ESG as the next big accounting trend. Average audit fees rose a slight 2.5%

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Going Concern

JUNE 13, 2022

accounting students continue to shun the CPA exam. speaking of the CPA exam, KPMG has a new program to help its auditors take it. a quickie on most in-demand credentials for accounting professionals (beyond a pulse, that is). updating a 12-year-old Going Concern post: “Do Accounting Firms Care if You’re On Drugs?”

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 19, 2023

No matter how you might feel about generative AI’s recent and rapid rise in the workplace, it is a wave of change that all accountants must embrace at some level. And 51% reported that they expect their firms to start using the technology within the next six to 12 months. operations, based in the Washington, D.C.,

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Going Concern

JULY 1, 2022

Historic EY fine latest by-product of KPMG cheating scandal [ Compliance Week ] It is impossible to ignore the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) record $100 million fine against EY for employee exam cheating is exactly double the amount the regulator penalized fellow Big Four firm KPMG in 2019 for its infamous cheating scandal.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 11, 2023

MCM is the Southeast region’s eighth-largest accounting service provider based on Accounting Today’s Top 100 Firms ranking with ~370 employees and approximately $72 million in annual revenue. Koltin, CEO of Koltin Consulting Group and an advisor on the acquisition. PwC was unable to provide a figure.

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Going Concern

APRIL 19, 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. Ardoino stated, “None of the Big Four firms are willing to audit us.”

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Going Concern

MAY 13, 2022

Junior KPMG auditor ‘should not lose his home’ for misleading regulator, says tribunal [ Financial Times ] A former junior KPMG auditor should not receive a fine so large it could force him to sell his matrimonial home, a tribunal has said. ” COVID-19 has negatively impacted how auditors work [ Phys.org ] Duh?

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Going Concern

JANUARY 12, 2024

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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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

EY fired auditor for not approving illegal transactions, says a new lawsuit [ Reuters ] Ernst & Young LLP has been sued by a former partner who says she was forced out of her job for refusing to sign off on client transactions that violated tax and securities laws. Accounting Firm M&A. PwC HK, KPMG to host U.S.

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Going Concern

JULY 15, 2022

SEC’s Gensler Casts Doubt on Prospects for China Audit Deal [ Wall Street Journal ] Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler expressed doubt Wednesday that negotiators in Washington and Beijing will reach an agreement over audits that is necessary to prevent Chinese companies from being delisted by U.S. stock exchanges.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 8, 2024

White, and Amanda Iacone, Bloomberg News (TNS) Donald Trump’s social-media company just became the most valuable publicly traded client of an accounting firm that has more experience auditing companies traded over-the-counter and has had a string of regulatory issues, including a 100% deficiency rate on audits reviewed by a U.S.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 19, 2022

We’re adding accounting firm mergers & acquisitions to the weekly news as they’re happening with such frequency and regular Footnotes readers will notice the news is now sorted by topic. Firm M&A: Eisner adds Minn.-based accounting firms, has merged with Healdsburg’s Mengali Accountancy Inc.,

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Talent The new math in recruiting at accounting firms [ Puget Sound Business Journal ] You have to scroll way too far down in this article to see a mention of salary. It’s part of a larger trend of accounting firms trying to find young talent as the industry wrestles with staffing shortages.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 4, 2023

Technology With generative AI, start with the basics, EY tells CFOs [ CFO Dive ] The best thing for CFOs today is just “take a look at their operations,” Michael Kelly, partner and management consulting consultant at Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young said.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Donald Bender, a partner at accounting firm Mazars USA, had been under tense cross-examination by Trump’s attorneys since Tuesday afternoon when they called him out over his apparent memory loss during the final hours on the witness stand. Technology How do different accounting firms use AI? 1, KPMG said.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

KPMG UK promotes 56 new partners – but none of them join equity ranks [ Financial News ] The Big Four accountancy firm introduced a salaried, non-equity partner rung in 2021. The rank means that staff get the coveted partner title, but only a small proportion of their pay is based on the firm’s profits. “You Choreo acquires $8.1B

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

SEC as EQCF: Statement on Public Company Accounting Oversight Board; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rules on a Firm’s System of Quality Control and Related Amendments to PCAOB Standards [ Statement by SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce ] Auditors play a critical role in maintaining healthy capital markets.

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Going Concern

APRIL 17, 2023

The PCAOB wants to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an anonymous auditor who challenged the board‘s “secret” disciplinary proceedings: Among other reasons, the board noted that John Doe‘s Jan. But the board is located in Washington, D.C., or Texas while he was employed at the firm. 19, 2023, suit was filed in the U.S.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Big Four accounting firm told employees last week that it would embark on a reorganisation of areas of the business affecting about 2,700 staff and partners, adding that it was part of its “new vision to become the pre-eminent firm”, according to a document seen by the Financial Times. Yeah, that doesn’t sound good.

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