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Friday Footnotes: CPAs Need to Get Contemporary; Internal Audit Priorities for 2024; A PwC Comic Book? | 8.30.24

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26 in state Superior Court in Passaic County, Richard Hekemian alleges that Sills Cummis & Gross, based in Newark, “overcharged and overbilled” him, including through double and multiple billing “for the same legal services, or simply ‘padding’ the invoices.” In the four-count suit filed Aug.

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Friday Footnotes: Inside PwC Cheating; Audit Market Monopoly; AI Anxiety | 12.15.23

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Cheaters What went wrong at PwC Canada: Accounting firm agrees to pay $1.45-million million to settle exam cheating scandal [ Canadian Accountant ] The Canadian member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International has agreed to pay the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario $1.45

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TIGTA Does Some Digging on the Revolving Door Between the IRS and Large Accounting Firms

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The request, received by TIGTA on February 18, 2022 urged TIGTA to “open an inquiry into the revolving door between the country’s top accounting firms and the Federal Government and to inform Congress and the public about [TIGTA’s] findings.” employees moving] between their firms and Government service at the IRS.”

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BDO Says It Is No Longer Doing Business In Russia and Belarus

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The latest top accounting firm to turn its back on Russia and Belarus is No. BDO does not have a network firm in Russia. The former Russian member firm operates entirely independently under the name of Unicon. We will work to support our clients in fulfilling our legal obligations and commitments.

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Friday Footnotes: A Billion Dollar AI Audit Startup; Oops, All Independence Violations!; Bipartisan Tax Vote | 2.2.23

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PwC said on Monday that it had identified 129 breaches of independence rules affecting 74 clients and PCAOB inspectors had found a further one themselves while inspecting audit work in 2022. The figures were included in an update to PwC’s audit quality report, published on its website.

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