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Accountants Behaving Badly: Police Department Accountant Couldn’t Be Bothered, PPP Loan Fraud, and a Creepy Tax Preparer

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TPB slaps 5-year ban on accountant involved in $26m fraud [ Accountants Daily ] The Tax Practitioners Board has slapped a five-year ban on a Sydney accountant charged with stealing $26 million through his firm to fund a lavish lifestyle and gambling addiction.

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How Shohei Ohtanis’ Interpreter’s Theft of $16.5 Million Occurred and Went Undetected for Years

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According to a federal indictment and a guilty plea, Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter, unlawfully transferred more than $16 million from Ohtani’s bank account at a bank in Arizona to pay his gambling debts to an illegal bookmaking operation. During the account setup, Mizuhara translated for Ohtani.

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BaFin Downplayed Wirecard Complaints, Report Says

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A lawsuit in 2008 by a small shareholders’ association alleged that Wirecard was using customer deposits as its own cash, resulting in “suspiciously high” margins and suggested the company was involved in things like online pornography and gambling.

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Review of Liscio – The Accounting Technology Lab Podcast – Oct. 2024

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Chris Farrell 00:51 Little bit about Liscio is, we are a very focused provider of client experience, and I got my start really at Arthur Andersen, where I was an auditor, and our client experience at the time was 100% in person, so it was a great place to start my career. You know, Brian frequently refers to himself as a recovering auditor.

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Friday Footnotes: Anyone Wanna Work in Hollywood?; Profit-Hungry CEOs Love Gen AI; KPMG’s SF Future | 1.19.24

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ICYMI | Get Ready for the Future of Auditing [ CPA Journal ] The increasing use of technology is changing how businesses operate, which methodology and technology auditors use, and what career paths they follow. Arizona Auditors Found $1.8 Million in Fraud and Theft in 2023 [ Arizona Mirror ] State audits uncovered more than $1.8

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Friday Footnotes: An Outsourcing Shortage Now Too?; Finally, Some Disruption; PwC Haters Celebrate Government Inquiry | 3.17.23

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So that’s not a scripted set of results, yet it is known prior to the event, and gambling is legal on the Oscars. We’ll allow gambling on it for a certain amount of time, then we’ll turn the gambling off. We’ll allow gambling on it for a certain amount of time, then we’ll turn the gambling off.

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Defending IRS Cash-Based Audits – Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Computing Income

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Some means include virtual currencies, collectibles, gift cards, register zappers, gambling, and barter. The reasons go from troubled financial situations, gambling or other addictions, avoidance of sales or income taxes, evading of the pesky payroll and minimum wage rules, and attempts to obtain other government benefits.

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