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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big 4 Firms Hate Going Concern (Warnings, That Is); Being a Whistleblower Blows | 5.20.24

Going Concern

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. The quality control standard represents the give and take of a decade’s worth of consideration on how to improve audit quality among auditors of public companies.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The Age of the Non-CPA; PwC Explains the Chevron Thing | 7.29.24

Going Concern

All this time we thought it was going to be robots that take accounting jobs, it was Indians all along. 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.

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Tuesday Morning Accounting News Brief: A New Kind of Audit Quality Report; Merger Mania; Skilled Talent, Not Newbies | 5.28.24

Going Concern

A Forvis deal we didn’t feel warranted its own article when it was announced last week (and still doesn’t): Accounting firm Forvis has struck a deal to acquire Charlotte-based ConTech 360 in a move targeted at bolstering its focus in the construction technology sector. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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