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In ongoing accounting crunch, where to go for sales tax help?

TaxConnex

The accounting education pipeline is drier than ever even as accounting degrees require many additional course hours. million accountants and auditors in the U.S. from 2019,” reads a recent Wall Street Journal article on accounting’s latest great resignation. Are they experienced with auditors?

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

Going Concern

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.,

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Are Auditors Becoming as Hard to Find as a PS5?

Going Concern

Mind you this was following a record 40,350 accounting graduates hired by public accounting firms in 2012 , and by 2014, the profession logged six consecutive years of record numbers of people majoring in accounting. On top of the overall pipeline issue, we’ve heard grumblings of auditor shortages for years.

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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. 9: Blue & Co.

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The Audit Profession’s Inability to Retain Talent Poses a Serious Threat to Audit Quality

Going Concern

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. Yes, a udit committees are tasked with making the auditor retention decision.

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Which Firm Had the Most IPO Audit Clients In Q1 2022?

Going Concern

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. 1 and March 31, raising a total of $11.3

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ESG Reporting Now Common at Large Companies, But Report Quality Varies

CPA Practice

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. CPAs have unquestioned competence, professional judgment and operate within a robust system built with public protection in mind. The current report includes data from 2019-2021.Full

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