CPA Practice

AUGUST 9, 2023

billion between April 1 and June 30, according to a recent analysis from Audit Analytics. billion) 2019 : 79 ($32.7 billion, while six special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) IPOs raised total proceeds of $980 million, according to Audit Analytics. PwC is the company’s audit firm, according to Kenvue’s Form 8-K.

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ThomsonReuters

MAY 16, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of auditing and accounting, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has taken a significant step forward with the adoption of a new quality control standard, QC 1000. What are the core objectives of QC 1000?

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CPA Practice

APRIL 16, 2024

The Philadelphia Inquirer (via TNS) Molly Kowal decided to become an accountant in part because she knew it would be a stable career. My generation is more focused on maintaining that work-life balance,” said Kowal, who works at accounting firm EisnerAmper in Philadelphia. “A By Lizzy McLellan Ravitch.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has not been in a jovial mood lately. Shortly after criticizing audit firms for the number of errors they made on public company audits reviewed by PCAOB inspectors last year, the audit watchdog doled out sanctions to 12 accounting firms from July 28 to Aug.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

The company was involved in deliberate deceit and had given false statements on escrow while EY was carrying out the 2019 audit of the company, which EY took to the relevant authorities, Reuters reported. billion on its books that may not exist. He posted 5 million euros in bail and was released on Tuesday (June 23).

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Going Concern

JUNE 1, 2023

In the WaPo opinion pages yesterday one Duncan Mavin, who got his start in the 90s, says the best way to solve the audit industry’s many conflicts is to kill it altogether. He starts the piece summoning the ghost of Enron, as all writers do when discussing what happens when audit goes wrong. billion in global revenue.

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Going Concern

JUNE 9, 2022

Those employers with a history of mismanaging their human capital , like the largest audit firms, are being hit the hardest. The public accounting business model has relied excessively on its ability to counter the effects of massive turnover with its ability to hire and train massive numbers of new people every year directly out of college.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 17, 2023

LLP, its CEO Nigel Bostock, and senior auditor Matthew Stallabrass for the firm’s deficient audit of music streaming company Akazoo Limited. million back in 2021 “for allegedly defrauding investors out of tens of millions of dollars in connection with a 2019 special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) business combination.”

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Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2024

In response, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has drafted a rule that the accounting firms can have public trust or private financials—but they can’t have both. Public accounting firms operate in a unique space in our society. Regulations need to change to match. But what about the books of the auditor?

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A gent who spent nine months as an audit associate at Grant Thornton’s Manchester office got a letter from them a year after leaving that apologized for inadvertently paying him less than minimum wage. Yavinka Mendis, a University of Manchester economics graduate, joined KPMG’s Manchester office as an audit associate in 2019.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The Black and Yellow had been slowly but surely not screwing up as many audits in recent years. After having a not-great audit deficient rate of 31% in its 2017 inspection report , EY’s error rate had dropped to 26% in its 2018 report , 18% in 2019 , and 15.4% For each issuer audit selected, we reviewed a portion of the audit.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The PCAOB has scored its first-ever sanctions related to a firm’s membership in an accounting alliance and as one would expect, there is a press release. Given its alliance membership and association with the other accounting firm, Warren Averett had a disincentive to question the reasonableness of the other accounting firm’s valuation work.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 6, 2023

Fat Joe’s favorite audit firm once again had a spectacularly horrible PCAOB inspection report. In the 2021 inspection of BDO USA, LLP, the PCAOB assessed the firm’s compliance with laws, rules, and professional standards applicable to the audits of public companies. For each issuer audit selected, we reviewed a portion of the audit.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 7, 2023

Despite high demand for CPAs, accounting firms struggle to hire accountants. In 2021, there was a 17 percent drop in employed accountants and auditors from a 2019 peak, according to a Bloomberg Tax analysis. By Cameron White. Technology also gives staff real-time access to their data, from anywhere at any time.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

million earlier this week for breaking various Public Company Accounting Oversight Board auditing rules. Grant Thornton’s India arm and an Australian audit firm also received penalties from the PCAOB. The biggest fine was given to top 25 accounting firm Withum, which was docked $2 million on Feb. up from 59 in 2019.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The 2023 AICPA Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits report (short: Trends report) was released last week and spoiler alert, it’s dark. Says the AICPA, bachelor’s degree completions in accounting dropped 7.8% 65,035 total accounting degrees completed for 2021-22.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 21, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) doled out a total of $150,000 in fines to three partners at KPMG in China for turning a blind eye to U.S. auditing standards. audit regulator. Specifically, they didn’t appropriately evaluate the reasonableness of Tarena’s allowance for doubtful accounts.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 3, 2023

Despite high demand for CPAs, accounting firms struggle to hire accountants. In 2021, there was a 17 percent drop in employed accountants and auditors from a 2019 peak, according to a Bloomberg Tax analysis. By Cameron White. Technology also gives staff real-time access to their data, from anywhere at any time.

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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2022

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. Marcum and Withum combined audited 49.3%

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 18, 2023

arm of accounting firm Crowe LLP, its CEO, and a senior auditor settled charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 14 over various mistakes the firm made during its 2018 audit of music streaming company Akazoo. issued a clean audit report of Akazoo’s 2018 financial statements. The SEC said Crowe U.K. Crowe U.K.’s

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Going Concern

APRIL 30, 2024

It’s been almost six years since the Canadian government legalized recreational cannabis and ever since, a microcosm of financial reporting and auditing has been growing (no pun) beside it. The accounting firm confirmed the move in a statement to MJBizDaily , citing “elevated risk” in Canada’s adult-use cannabis industry.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

BDO USA was fined $2 million and two of the firm’s partners were fined a total of $60,000 by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) for failures in connection with the 2017 audit of AAC Holdings, which through its subsidiaries provides inpatient substance abuse treatment services, the audit regulator said on Tuesday.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 1, 2024

By Amrita Choudhary, Kiplinger Consumer News Service (TNS) In recent years, lease accounting standard ASC 842 has replaced the ASC 840 standard. Where artificial intelligence comes in Fortune Business Insights projects that by 2026, the global accounting software market will be worth $20.4 Neglecting training and updates.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 26, 2023

A new PCAOB staff report sheds light on an area where PCAOB inspectors have observed relatively high rates of audit deficiencies: special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). From 2021 to 2022, PCAOB inspectors reviewed more than 100 audits of companies that were either considered SPACs or that were formed through a de-SPAC transaction.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It’s been a while since we’ve done an Accountants Behaving Badly megapost ( 381 days ago , actually), here’s some bad behavior you may have missed. Twice-Convicted Accountant Is Charged With Embezzling More Than $1.1 Palos Hills Accountant Indicted In $7.8M This stock photo is incredible.

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Dent Moses

JUNE 29, 2023

IRS audit rates remain historically low. According to the 2022 General Accounting Office,25% of all individual returns were audited in 2019 versus.90% So how does the IRS check returns and decide who gets a letter or audit? Generally, the IRS has three (3) years from the filing date to audit. 90% in 2020.

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Dent Moses

JUNE 28, 2023

IRS audit rates remain historically low. According to the 2022 General Accounting Office,25% of all individual returns were audited in 2019 versus.90% So how does the IRS check returns and decide who gets a letter or audit? Generally, the IRS has three (3) years from the filing date to audit. 90% in 2020.

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Going Concern

JULY 11, 2022

That’s how much Tanvi Shah made in audit before she decided to quit Big 4 for good and make her social media side hustle a full-time gig. This post brought to you by RAID: Shadow Legends, one of the biggest mobile role-playing games of 2019 and it’s tota–oh wait, never mind, wrong post. £3,000 ($3,600) a month.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

By Mike Fouts The accounting profession is at a crucial moment in which there’s massive potential to enhance productivity, elevate client experiences, and prevent burnout. As financial first responders, accountants often find themselves under immense pressure that is only amplified by the busy tax season.

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Going Concern

JULY 31, 2023

Currently KPMG, Deloitte and EY provide both consulting and audit to both the public and private sector. Originally they were just audit firms,” he said. Then the audit firms decided to create this problem by going off and doing their own consulting and the whole thing’s got out of hand.”

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Accounting Insight

APRIL 30, 2024

Figures show an “enormous” rise in firms choosing to outsource their accounting services, with a near 40% increase in global spend and a 20% surge in interest over the last five years. Outsourcing ’s growth curve can be compared to that of AI, particularly when it comes to the accounting world.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 9, 2024

In September we were tipped to a developing situation at US mid-tier audit firms in which said firms started shuttering their public company audit practices. It means the watchdog will only conduct inspections of the firm’s “public interest entity” audits every three years, rather than every 12 months.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 23, 2023

Partnering with an outsourced accounting firm can not only help leadership recapture lost time, but also increase financial efficiency and improve data accuracy – providing real-time insights and expertise that will embolden organizations’ missions and allow them to maximize their impact with limited resources.

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Going Concern

APRIL 5, 2022

It only took five years, but Scott Marcello finally received some sort of punishment for what happened in KPMG’s audit practice several years ago as partners were working with PCAOB insiders to illegally receive advanced notice of the PCAOB’s inspection plans for KPMG audits.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 25, 2023

When Thomson Reuters reported late last year that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) had proposed an eighth round of changes to lease accounting rules 1 , accounting and finance execs around the country channeled their inner Charlie Browns with a collective, “Good grief!”

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2019

s so-called Big Four accountancy firms — KPMG, PwC, EY and Deloitte — have reportedly failed to reach audit quality standards set by the Financial Reporting Council , Reuters reported this week. Only 75 percent of the audits of the U.K.’s It will review a larger number of the firm’s audits in the coming year.

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Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2022

To counter this perception, the accounting profession could be rebranded as a foundational force of social stability and progress, and not just as “a job” with long hours and low return on investment (ROI) on education. There is another way of putting this: Accounting is a profession whose brand has not been diluted.

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