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Here’s How Mid-Tier Accounting Firms Are Feeling About Private Equity and M&A

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As mentioned in this week’s news brief, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) put together a snazzy little report on the state of mid-tier firms based on a survey of managing partners. This article is already long enough so we’ll stop here and hit part two on talent and technology tomorrow.

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Friday Footnotes: How Much Big 4 Spent on Lobbying Last Year; Super Bowl Bets; CFOs Feeling Good | 2.9.24

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Three of the firms also joined industry efforts to designate accounting as a science, technology, engineering, and math—or STEM—field, according to federal lobbying disclosures. My buddy from undergrad works office security at one of the Big 4 accounting firms in Midtown.

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How to enhance the audit experience

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Menzies LLP - A leading chartered accountancy firm. Even so care is needed in the implementation of any changes to ensure SMEs are not the victims of unintended consequences, this has been given a cautious welcome by some auditors. The key to driving value from the audit process is enhancing the overall experience.

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Pays High Schoolers 20 Bucks an Hour; Deloitte Cyberattacked Too; IRS on ERC | 7.28.23

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“We got this outcome because: we identified US tech two years ago as representing a significant (at least for controversy!) The IRS has trained auditors examining the claims that pose the greatest risk of fraud, and the IRS Criminal Investigation division is identifying promoters of fraudulent claims, he said.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Leader Called Out for Twitter Tantrums; Why Quiet Layoffs Are a Bad Idea; Remote Work Advice for Firms | 6.14.24

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KPMG launches radical overhaul, cuts 200 senior jobs [ Financial Review ] KPMG Australia will overhaul its consulting business to focus on tech-related advisory and software installation as part of an $80 million cost-cutting exercise that will include shedding about 200 jobs.

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Friday Footnotes: EY Can’t Hire Tech; John Doe Sues the PCAOB; Auditors Can’t Find Torpedoes and Missiles | 1.20.03

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“If you just read the headlines around what’s going on, you might think, there’s all kinds of people who know technology out there,” Carmine Di Sibio told Bloomberg in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos. But that doesn’t appear to be the case.

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Friday Footnotes: Intuit Pisses Off Tax Practitioners; Deloitte Won’t Talk About Tax Dodging; Whatcha Up To, KPMG? | 10.4.24

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SEC Charges Olayinka Oyebola and His Accounting Firm With Aiding and Abetting Massive Fraud [ SEC ] The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Olayinka Oyebola and his Public Company Accounting Oversight Board-registered accounting firm, Olayinka Oyebola & Co. companies that Mmobuosi controlled (the Tingo entities).

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