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Why Economic Volatility Opens Up Opportunity For The Modern Corporate Accountant

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With market volatility and economic pressure higher than it has been in more than a decade, the ways businesses manage and account for their money is inevitably included in that wave of operational change. That means significant implications for the ways accountants and auditors operate both within an enterprise and externally from it.

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Friday Footnotes: Remembering Legend Sid Kess; Andersen’s Doing Great; Poland Banned Deloitte From Auditing? | 9.22.23

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Audit PCAOB offers forum for auditors; SEC releases several updates [ Journal of Accountancy ] Days after issuing a proposal to strengthen individual accountability for firm violations in audits, the PCAOB has announced a livestreamed forum aimed at educating auditors on how to avoid deficiencies.

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Here Are Even More 2024 Accounting Salary Projections

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Now that you bravely skimmed four entire paragraphs of icky words, here are national average salaries for various accounting positions according to the report. To keep things simple, we’ll stick to the tax and audit roles. The most lucrative of these is being a CFO in Boston ($302,309 versus national average of $261,739).

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Pressure Mounts On Big Four Auditors

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The former chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has warned of Enron-style corporate collapses thanks to failings of the nation’s auditing industry, according to ABC.net news reports this week. Auditors are not skeptical enough. Global Pressure. Global Pressure.

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Aussie Auditors’ Role In Reverse Factoring Disclosure Questioned

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Several high-profile corporate collapses and initiatives from corporate accounting standard-setters have raised questions about businesses’ use of supply chain finance and whether the trade finance tool prevents investors and auditors from gaining a transparent view into company finances.

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UK Financial Watchdog Ramps Up Auditor Oversight

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financial watchdogs have stepped up their oversight of the accounting and auditing industry amid a string of corporate accounting scandals, collapses and questions over the dominance of the Big Four auditing firms. KPMG , PwC , Deloitte and EY head the U.K.

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150 Hour Rule: Let’s Keep Arguing About What Color the Drapes Should Be While the House is Burning Down

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To summarize most of the article: barrier to entry, US workforce hemorrhaged 334,000 accountants and auditors in two years, pipeline pipeline pipeline, blah blah. And Julie Blaha, Minnesota state auditor: “This is now a severe shortage, and it is causing a tsunami of problems.

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