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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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Pressure Mounts On Big Four Auditors

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Former ASIC Chairman Greg Medcraft warned that declining audit quality runs the risk of high-profile corporate collapses, pointing to the Enron scandal that went undetected by auditors — described as the “gatekeepers” that “facilitate trust,” Medcraft said. Auditors are not skeptical enough. 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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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. The post Here Are Even More 2024 Accounting Salary Projections appeared first on Going Concern.

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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. We needed to take some action.”

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TIL Deloitte Almost Didn’t Do the Green Dot Because It Was ‘a Bit Silly’

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Here’s a blurb from a March 2003 New York Times article about that : Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu reversed course yesterday and said that it would keep its consulting business, becoming the only accounting firm in the Big Four to retain its consulting and auditing services. It was the last of the big firms to do so.

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How Finance Departments Can Mold Risk Mitigation Into Opportunity

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Now, analysts at the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) are urging ERM to move beyond the c-suite. Professional accountants are well-positioned to better serve the organizations they work for by enabling effective enterprise risk management that identifies both risks and opportunities for the business,” the CEO noted.

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