Going Concern

JULY 31, 2023

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. Under the new External Audit Act and all amendments to it in 2019, the number of auditing days surged.

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Going Concern

MARCH 25, 2024

Do you guys remember the Deloitte auditors in Canada who were busted changing the clocks on their computers to backdate workpapers ? Prior to the Engagement Management System (EMS) update in November 2016, Deloitte auditors were permitted to manually enter sign-off dates for both audit work and reviews. million ($1.2 million USD) fine.

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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2022

With the EY cheating scandal making headlines even outside of our precious little accountosphere we decided to take a look at the full SEC order to answer the question — how and why were EY auditors cheating on CPE exams? The long and short of it is, EY auditors trying to shortcut CPE took advantage of a software exploit.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

According to auditor Ernst & Young (EY) , German payment processor Wirecard knowingly gave false statements and was in the midst of “elaborate and sophisticated fraud involving multiple parties around the world” in regards to $2.1 billion on its books that may not exist. The matter concerns the $2.1

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Going Concern

JANUARY 20, 2023

Under rules introduced in 2016, large UK-listed companies are required to change auditor at least every 20 years and to run a competitive tender once a decade. PwC took over from KPMG in 2015 and was eligible to serve until 2034 subject to a competitive tender at the 10-year mark. In 2001, the Pentagon said it would address the issue by 2005.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

As the fallout from Wirecard ‘s $2 billion accounting scandal continues, some attention has turned to the Germany-based payment company’s auditor, Ernst & Young (EY). In response to 2019 claims, Wirecard hired auditing giant KPMG to clear its name. Fraud Concerns Arise. ” Swift Blowback. . ” Swift Blowback.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 8, 2024

said in recent regulatory filings that it will keep BF Borgers, a Lakewood, Colorado-based accounting firm, as its auditor after starting to trade publicly late last month. A Canadian regulator said last year that BF Borgers violated its rules for auditors, while the U.S.’s Trump Media & Technology Group Corp.

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Going Concern

MAY 5, 2022

On top of the overall pipeline issue, we’ve heard grumblings of auditor shortages for years. The PCAOB is watching , too, concerned about the obvious audit quality problem that arises when your already overworked auditors are now doing the work of 10 people instead of a more modest three to four. Photo by Kate Trifo.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

EY fired auditor for not approving illegal transactions, says a new lawsuit [ Reuters ] Ernst & Young LLP has been sued by a former partner who says she was forced out of her job for refusing to sign off on client transactions that violated tax and securities laws. from 2019 onwards. appeared first on Going Concern.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

Wirecard has postponed publication of its 2019 annual report after disclosing that its auditor can’t confirm the existence $2.1 Wirecard said in its statement that it will announce another date for its 2019 report’s release in the future. billion in trust accounts — or about a quarter of the value on the company’s books.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Add to that the issue of baby boomer retirements and an entire class of auditors who were trained by Zoom at the beginning of the pandemic now reaching the point where they are expected to train associates below them despite they themselves still struggling and…well. They do, however, fine the s**t out of firms. Or they are now, anyway.

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Going Concern

APRIL 16, 2024

Over the past week or so, various media outlets have been picking on Trump Media auditor BF Borgers and their 100% PCAOB deficiency rate. BF Borgers has become one of the most prolific auditors of US public companies just 15 years after its foundation, and regulators have warned that it has taken on new clients faster than it can manage.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

29 fined top 50 firm Warren Averett $200,000 for auditor independence violations during the 2019 and 2020 audits of an issuer. Warren Averett audited the BDO valuation work as part of its 2019 and 2020 audits of CytoDyn. During the 2020 fiscal year, BDO performed certain derivative valuation services for CytoDyn.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 15, 2023

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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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

First things first: The PCAOB found that Warren Averett violated independence requirements during its 2019 and 2020 audits of an issuer, because the firm audited valuations performed for the issuer by another accounting firm that sponsored an alliance of which Warren Averett was a member.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 19, 2023

445 professional staff — 93 percent auditors and seven percent tax and advisory — participated in answer sharing during mandatory, open-book internal training assessments between 2016 and 2020. That changed on November 21, 2019 when assurance staff were told via webinar to “complete assessments independently.”

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has doled out a record $20 million in total fines to audit firms and individual auditors so far in 2023, almost doubling the previous high mark of $11 million set last year. In early 2019, the firm violated the anti-fraud provisions of U.S. To protect investors on U.S.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

.” That’s what George Botic said to attendees of the AICPA & CIMA Conference on Current SEC and PCAOB Developments in January , a get together sort of like Burning Man for auditors except without the psychedelics and skimpy costumes. Auditors are wild, you never know. as well as all broker-dealer audits.

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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

JUNE 29, 2023

Reports Financial Times : The firm’s junior auditors were told on a webcast last week that the pay band for one cohort would be frozen while others would increase by 3 or 6 per cent, resulting in real-terms pay cuts, firm insiders told the Financial Times. billion ($2.2 billion ($2.2

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Going Concern

APRIL 12, 2024

As described in the PCAOB’s orders, from 2017 to 2019, Deloitte Philippines’s audit partners and other personnel engaged in widespread answer sharing – either by providing answers or using answers – or received answers without reporting such sharing in connection with tests for mandatory firm training courses. Er, cheating.

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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. This isn’t surprising, as Marcum is the largest auditor of SPACs.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 13, 2023

Seven botched audits out of 31 inspected comes out to a failure rate of 22.6%, the same rate as its 2019 inspection report but not as good as its 17.2% The identified deficiencies primarily related to the firm’s testing of controls over and/or substantive testing of revenue and related accounts and inventory. The most common Part I.A

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Navarro-Velez joined the department at UNLV in 2019. In new research, Matthias Breuer, Anthony Le, and Felix Vetter find that when companies are required by the government to seek a third-party financial audit, they turn to lower quality auditors.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

From the SEC : The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against accounting firm Prager Metis CPAs, LLC and its California professional services firm, Prager Metis CPAs LLP, (together, Prager) for violating auditor independence rules and for aiding and abetting their clients’ violations of federal securities laws.

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TaxConnex

MARCH 21, 2024

Auditors slapped Amazon with some $12.5 In September 2019, the South Carolina ALC found in favor of the state, though during those deliberations South Carolina did clarify sales tax obligations for marketplace facilitators. “We million in taxes, penalties and interest for the first three months of 2016.

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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2023

In July 2019, ESL announced that a review had been conducted into its prior year financial statements. ESL almost imploded in December 2019 until saved by an investment of £55 million from shareholder and financier DBay Advisers. ” PwC’s reprimand for their 2018 audit of ESL was a bit less harsh.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 7, 2023

In 2021, there was a 17 percent drop in employed accountants and auditors from a 2019 peak, according to a Bloomberg Tax analysis. Auditors can do their work in as little as two or three hours, as opposed to the days or weeks they would typically spend auditing accounting by sifting through file cabinets and chasing paper.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

In the ongoing scandal of Wirecard , under fire for fraud, the focus is now turning to auditors Ernst & Young (EY), which reportedly failed to report Wirecard’s “unorthodox financial arrangements” as far back as 2016, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 30, 2022

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% EY auditors did get a 100% on their four audits of issuers in communication services, so they got that going for them. The most common Part I.A

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CPA Practice

APRIL 3, 2023

In 2021, there was a 17 percent drop in employed accountants and auditors from a 2019 peak, according to a Bloomberg Tax analysis. Auditors can do their work in as little as two or three hours, as opposed to the days or weeks they would typically spend auditing accounting by sifting through file cabinets and chasing paper.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

That’s up from 91% in 2019. Sixty-four percent of companies obtained assurance over at least some ESG information in 2021, up from 51% in 2019. While accounting firms conduct more engagements, their market share—57% of sustainability/ESG assurance engagements—has declined from 63% in 2019.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 8, 2023

E&Y, in the end, agreed to pay a fine of $100 million to settle the matter, which follows similar incidents by PwC Canada earlier this year and by KPMG in 2019. Instead of our collective chest thumping about how independent auditors are paragons of integrity, we should examine humbly the human situation.

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Going Concern

MARCH 16, 2022

The big news in the accounting profession yesterday afternoon from Dave Michaels of the Wall Street Journal was that the SEC is investigating the Big 4 and other public accounting firms on whether the consulting and non-audit services they sell to clients is conflicting with their independence as the auditors of said clients. PwC Fined $7.9

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Going Concern

JUNE 9, 2022

Th is means that to field a sufficient number of professionals to serve ESG attestation clients, the audit firms are planning to borrow from a population of surplus auditors that doesn’t exist. Yes, a udit committees are tasked with making the auditor retention decision. The opportunity in front of the PCAOB.

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Going Concern

MARCH 8, 2023

In particular, had the auditor appropriately applied the audit standards in FY2018, they should have required clear disclosures in Babcock’s FY2018 Financial Statements explaining the positive impact on operating profit of significant one-off items. in circumstances where PwC has now been sanctioned four times since 2019.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In early October, local KCCI in Des Moines ran a story about a shortage at the Iowa State Auditor’s Office. From the first KCCI story : The Iowa State Auditor’s Office is looking at college graduates with 2-year degrees to help fill open accounting positions. And it’s only just begun. Yes, we know.

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