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All I Want for the Holidays Is…. A Tax Provision Specialist

Withum

Finance teams planning for their year-end financial statement audit have an even longer list of things to think about at the end of the year, including income statements, balance sheets, and, finally, the income tax provisions and disclosures that must be presented in the financial statements.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Completes Its Punishment; Hybrid Work Should Stay in 2025; Deloitte Clutters Up the Dark Web | 1.3.25

Going Concern

The new platform of roughly 12,000 professionals will include a united Trans-Atlantic advisory and tax practice, as well as independent audit practices. Actually if you’re in tax you should have been thinking about this in October but that’s OK. We dont know, Matthew Dunlap, Maines state auditor, said.

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What's the Difference Between Business Fraud and Negligence?

Summit CPA

Padding business deductions with non-deductible personal expenses may be considered tax fraud. It’s stressful enough just going through a tax audit. Do not withhold information from an auditor intentionally. Hiding information from an auditor may create a fraudulent situation. Information concealed during an audit.

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

Going Concern

The PCAOB’s new rules would widen auditors’ responsibility to scrutinise whether a company is complying with laws and regulations, and to communicate more of their concerns to a company’s board of directors. The post Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: ‘Auditors Are Not Lawyers’; Big 4 Break Up?

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5 Good Practices For Auditor Independence, According to the PCAOB

CPA Practice

During its inspections of public accounting firms’ audits of issuers from 2021 to 2023, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) saw a year-over-year increase in the number of comment forms related to auditor independence problems, the audit regulator said in a staff report released on Sept.

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Who Wants to See How Much Big 4 Revenue by Service Line Has Changed Since SOX?

Going Concern

Contributions to revenue from advisory services were the lowest (14%) in 2005, while assurance and tax services were 62% and 24%, respectively. This sharply contrasts with 2022, when advisory service revenues were 51%, and assurance and tax service revenues were 27% and 22%, respectively.

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PCAOB Has Handed Out a Slew of Punishments to Audit Firms Recently

CPA Practice

Snodgrass —failed to obtain audit committee pre-approval in connection with providing audit and/or non-audit services to issuer audit clients, in violation of PCAOB Rule 3520, Auditor Independence , and for two of the three firms (BPM and Plante Moran) PCAOB Rule 3524, Audit Committee Pre-Approval of Certain Tax Services.

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