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Understanding Employees’ Preferences: The Key to CPA Firms Attracting Top Talent in 2025

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The field of public accounting is undergoing significant change, from rapid advancements in technology to evolving client expectations, including increasing demand for strategic advisory services. Research for the 2025 Salary Guide From Robert Half found that 85% of finance and accounting managers in the U.S. By Steve Saah.

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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. million to federal political parties from July 2012 to June 2022, and when KPMG ($1.1

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Feds Raid PwC; Big 4 Wants to Be Like Grant Thornton!? | 11.4.24

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Given the demands CPAs face — often, they serve on understaffed teams due to a shortage of accounting talent, while also needing to obtain continuing professional education credits in order to maintain their certified public accounting licenses — some experts were not surprised to hear about the multi-tasking practice. “If

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The PCAOB Did Not Appreciate Being Left Out of a Foreign Audit Firm’s Use of Foreign Auditors

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Because Smythe is registered with the PCAOB, their rules require that a registered public accounting firm and its associated persons comply with the Board’s auditing and related professional practice standards. Expect more of these fines to come, the PCAOB made use of other auditors one of its many nitpicking pet issues last year.

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Friday Footnotes: Private Equity Explains Their Accounting Endgame; Overworked Auditors and Their Wandering Eyes; Gen AI Use Ramps Up | 12.13.24

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Accountants and regulators have questioned whether the independence of auditors can be preserved or not under new buyers. These deals must not result in a significant culture shift away from its focus on audit quality, SEC Chief Accountant Paul Munter said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal at a conference in Washington, D.C.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: ‘Auditors Are Not Lawyers’; Big 4 Break Up? | 7.31.23

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With days to go before the end of a consultation period on the proposal from the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, (PCAOB) they are trying to sign up their clients to oppose the plan, saying that audit fees will soar if the changes go through. and Congressman Jason Smith, R-Mo., That’s all I’ve got.

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Friday Footnotes: The PCAOB-to-Practice Pipeline and Audit Quality; Ball Extension; Tim Ryan’s Replacement | 1.12.24

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Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Long Reads How Auditor Deloitte Missed A Nigerian Company’s Massive Fraud [ Forbes ] Hindenburg Research, known for sniffing out corporate scams, took aim in June at an obscure Nigeria-based outfit named Tingo Group. Tingo paid $1.6

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