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Friday Footnotes: The ERC Problem; EY Double Dips; Stress Less in Public Accounting | 5.26.23

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Long Read How a Pandemic-Era Program Became a Magnet for Fraud [ New York Times ] Amid the onset of the pandemic in 2020, as large swaths of the economy went into lockdown, Washington set up various programs to help keep businesses and their workers afloat. Have a safe Memorial Day. million over a decade.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Partner Banned; Salary Predictions; Public Accountants Have Had It | 1.23.23

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Brazilian retailer and PwC client Americanas filed for bankruptcy, its three largest shareholders said over the weekend they had not known of $4 billion in accounting inconsistencies. “We didn’t know of and would never allow any accounting manipulation in the company”, they said in a statement.

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Friday Footnotes: Disengaged Team? Do This; Deloitte’s Huge India Expansion; Auditors Yelled At…Again | 3.24.23

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[ Journal of Accountancy ] Pandemic pressures have worn the workforce thin, and the economy is in the thick of rapid, radical change. Many practitioners in public accounting are feeling burned out. Stanton was licensed as a certified public accountant in New York in 1988 and had previously run his own firm.

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Friday Footnotes: The Profession’s Ethics Dilemma; Co-Pilot Called Out in Court For Calculations; Audit Uncovers File Called ‘Twilight Zone’ | 10.18.24

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Private equity-backed Citrin Cooperman to acquire CT accounting firm [ Hartford Business Journal ] Woodbridge-based accounting and consulting firm Teplitzky & Co. has entered into an agreement to be acquired by New York-based professional services firm Citrin Cooperman.

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Friday Footnotes: The Biggest PE Deal to Date; AI Is Moving Fast, Says Deloitte; EY’s Secret (and Nasty) Drinking Club | 5.31.24

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Municipal Dumpster Fires Woonsocket city council respond to auditors abruptly quitting [ WLNE Providence ] Shout-out Mary Sahady who finally had enough of this b t and told this messy client to get bent. Woonsocket officials are hoping city auditors will change their mind, after they abruptly quit this past week.

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This One Chart Shows Just How Boned the Accounting Profession Is

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The authors compared accounting degrees to computer science degrees completed in the state of New York between 2010 and 2020 which is how we ended up with this chode. As of January 1, 2022, 65,164 are licensed CPAs in New York State (see the New York State Education Department, Office of the Professions, [link] ).

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Which Firm Had the Most IPO Audit Clients In Q1 2022?

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The hardworking human beings at Audit Analytics have released their analysis of initial public offering trends and IPO auditor market share for the first quarter of this year , a period in which the number of companies going public was minuscule compared to Q1 of 2021. 1 and March 31, raising a total of $11.3

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