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Friday Footnotes: Tim Ryan Works Too Hard; Fake CPA Gets Violent Over QuickBooks Files; PwC PR | 10.20.23

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Local CPA weighs in on accountant shortage [ WMDT ] The Salisbury, MD news spoke to a UHY partner about the issue. CPA at UHY Group Mark Welsh tells 47ABC that recruiting slowing down has meant firms are turning to AI, Bots, and international workers to help fill demand, raising prices as much as ten percent for end-users. Welsh said.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Eff You, Pay Us; Let’s Complain About Auditing Again; RIP to a Real One | 8.14.23

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In this environment of increased scrutiny of auditors, audit firms must double down on a culture of integrity and ensure that they have quality control systems in place to enforce compliance. There’s not any sort of regulation around who can be an auditor ,” Rood said. “My We feel very strongly that those are complementary markets.”

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Friday Footnotes: Fired Accountant Spills the Dirty Laundry; Scandals of Yore; Gen AI For Good | 1.26.24

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How AI is transforming audit [ Thomson Reuters ] In the past, auditors have heavily relied on manual processes to uncover risks in financial statements and business operations. This allows auditors to shift attention to more complex and strategic work, like interpreting results and offering experience-based insights to clients.

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Friday Footnotes: EY Doesn’t Regret a Return to Office; Consulting Cut Backs; AI Will Not Replace Accountants | 8.11.23

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million) is merging in Hearthstone CPA Group of Bremerton, Wash. 10, 2023—the board has a lot of work to do before it can finalize a proposal aimed at strengthening its standard to require public company auditors to more proactively identify, evaluate and communicate instances of a company’s non-compliance with laws and regulations (NOCLAR).

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Accountants Behaving Badly: Kickback Schemes, Hiding Money From the IRS, Embezzlement Spree

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Plus, Pennsylvania accountant loves tax evasion, North Carolina CPA indicted on securities fraud charge, and Kentucky accountant gets jail time for sex trafficking. New Jersey CPA Admits to Concealing $147,000 From the IRS [ CPA Practice Advisor ]. Drobot, who owned Pacific Hospital in Long Beach.

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Friday Footnotes: AI More Trusted Than CPAs; We’re Interested in Carried Interest Again; Is Consulting So Back? | 2.7.25

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AI Americans trust AI more than a CPA to do their taxes, according to new research [ Fortune ] Only 2 in 5 Americans are confident about their tax filing game, according to a new survey from Invoice Home. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) has stepped up to the plate and reintroduced, for the umpteenth time, a measure to do just that.

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Friday Footnotes: The Future of the Profession Sounds Terrible; F Your Weak Salary Bump, EY; Intuit Axes 1,500 People | 7.12.24

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And it would include providing funding and/or bonuses for students who obtain the extra 30 hours of college credit required for CPA licensure. Big 4 University of Kentucky to pay Deloitte $1.3M Big 4 University of Kentucky to pay Deloitte $1.3M

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