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Tuesday Morning Accounting News Brief: CPA Numbers Are Abysmal; PwC Blocked Government Inquiry | 5.30.23

Going Concern

Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) is hoarding the funds paid to it as a result of fines , writes Richard Murphy on his blog Funding the Future. It is time for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales to put the fines paid by to [sic?]

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Friday Footnotes: Look What You Did, PwC; No Lakehouse This Year; India Wants Its Own Big 4 | 5.3.24

Going Concern

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has passed an order against three affiliates of auditing major EY and a retired partner for “professional misconduct”. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs are laying down the ground work for this. “We

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The Age of the Non-CPA; PwC Explains the Chevron Thing | 7.29.24

Going Concern

All this time we thought it was going to be robots that take accounting jobs, it was Indians all along. Oh and reminder: the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is working on a plan to consolidate India’s 96,000 little accountancy firms into mega-firms that they think could compete with Big 4 on the global stage.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big 4 Firms Hate Going Concern (Warnings, That Is); Being a Whistleblower Blows | 5.20.24

Going Concern

PwC is facing legal action claiming the accountancy firm is liable for the alleged rape of a graduate employee following after-work drinks. The situation Watson finds himself in makes a mockery of the corporate whistleblower protections that were introduced in July 2019 and inspired him to take legal action three years later.

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Tuesday Morning Accounting News Brief: A New Kind of Audit Quality Report; Merger Mania; Skilled Talent, Not Newbies | 5.28.24

Going Concern

Nearby, a Canadian firm is elbowing its way into the United States : Melo, a Leamington, Ontario, Canada-based accounting, tax, legal, and financial advisory firm, has acquired Edwards, Ellis & Associates, which has offices in Troy and Ann Arbor (Michigan). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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