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Friday Footnotes: PwC Completes Its Punishment; Hybrid Work Should Stay in 2025; Deloitte Clutters Up the Dark Web | 1.3.25

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PR Newswire ] Aprio, the 25th largest business advisory and accounting firm in the U.S., announces the strategic acquisitions of two leading accounting firms, KRD, Ltd. Two anonymous accountants and an unnamed accounting firm have challenged the Public Company Accounting Oversight Boards enforcement authority.

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My Teaching Method

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Introductory Course in Financial Accounting at Baruch College This Friday, I will start a new semester teaching the introductory course in financial accounting at Baruch College, my alma mater. About 60% of the students are split between accounting and finance majors. They are important.

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FASB Aims to Improve Derivative Accounting

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Investors, accounting firms, and other stakeholders have until Oct. 21 to provide comments on a new proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU) issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) on Tuesday that aims to clarify rules on derivative accounting.

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FASB OKs New Crypto Assets Standard

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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) unanimously approved new rules on Sept. I think we heard overwhelmingly from investors that allocate capital based on the use of financial statements that this will provide them better information to make their decisions.” I think this [standard] moves the needle there.

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New GASB Members Named

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The Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) has announced the appointment of Robert W. Scott to a five-year term on the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Before entering the public sector, he was employed as an audit manager with the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche.

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Friday Footnotes: Client Hid ‘Damning’ Audit; Predictions for the Profession; Accounting Firm Gets Compromised | 4.15.22

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Accounting watchdog investigates Deloitte over Go-Ahead audits [ The Guardian ] One of the UK’s biggest accounting firms, Deloitte, is under investigation by regulators for its audits of Go-Ahead, after the bus and rail operator was embroiled in a scandal for wrongly withholding £50m of taxpayers’ money.

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Changes in 2024 CPA Exam Put Technology Front and Center

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Today’s CPAs need deeper skill sets, more competencies and greater knowledge of emerging technologies and their impact on tax, accounting and audit,” explains the AICPA in unveiling blueprints for the 2024 CPA Exam.