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

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. 11 for breaking various auditing rules. Snodgrass, Mancera S.C.,

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A new report released on Wednesday reveals that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) increased accounting and auditing enforcement actions by 22% last year, but monetary settlements dropped for a second straight year. Despite the SEC reporting $4.9 Table courtesy of Cornerstone Research. Chart courtesy of Cornerstone Research.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Overall, average audit fees increased by 4.6 Forty-seven percent of member company respondents also indicated an increase in effort to support the external audit while 51 percent reported no change year over year. percent from 2021 to 2022. Additional reasons cited were changes to ICFR followed by divestitures.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 28, 2022

It would be tough for PwC to top its 2020 inspection report as it was nearly blemish-free. Of the 52 audits reviewed by inspectors during that inspection cycle, only one mistake was found —related to the firm’s testing of controls over and substantive testing of revenue and related accounts and inventory—for a deficiency rate of 1.9%.

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Withum

MAY 15, 2024

In 2020, Chris spearheaded the initiative to centralize the Firm’s innovation strategy by bringing on Withum’s first Chief Innovation Officer, Molly Goins-Cox. Jim and Chris are essential to Withum’s exceptional innovation, which propels the Firm and the profession forward.

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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 2020 to 2021, U.S. The staff report noted: The PCAOB reviewed 44 SPAC-related audits performed in 2021.

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Going Concern

MARCH 30, 2022

The latest audit inspection results for Crowe show the 11th-ranked public accounting firm by revenue bombed 27% of the audits reviewed in the most recent PCAOB inspection cycle, but the firm was less bad in its 2020 report card than it was in 2019’s. PCAOB inspectors selected 15 audits to dissect and found problems in just four.

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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. Here’s what happened.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Lara Abrash, and other Deloitte audit folks happy (bold part added by us for emphasis): In the 2021 inspection of Deloitte & Touche LLP, the PCAOB assessed the firm’s compliance with laws, rules, and professional standards applicable to the audits of public companies. error rate in its 2020 inspection report and its 3.6%

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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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Withum

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The AICPA Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. The Standard was originally effective for audits of employee benefit plan (EBP) financial statements subject to the ERISA for periods ending on or after December 15, 2020, but was delayed one year to December 15, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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Going Concern

JANUARY 31, 2024

In an audit quality report released last week [ PDF ], the once flawless PwC admits its next PCAOB inspection report will be twice as bad as the last one. deficiency rate with just one mistake found in 52 audits inspected. deficiency rate with just one mistake found in 52 audits inspected.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 25, 2023

Based on the 2021 PCAOB inspection reports we ’ve reviewed so far, the audit firm that would win the “most improved” award is RSM US. From 2017 to 2020, RSM had an average yearly audit failure rate of 42%, including failing 46% of its audits reviewed by PCAOB inspectors in 2020.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 13, 2023

From 2016 until its 2020 inspection report, Grant Thornton had an average audit failure rate of about 21%. Not bad for a firm that had an average audit failure rate of 44% from 2010 to 2015. Seven of the 31 audits we reviewed in 2021 are included in Part I.A rate in 2020 , which was an all-time best for Grant Thornton.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The NMC Health collapse of 2020 is still haunting EY UK, this time in London High Court as NMC administrators accuse the firm of failing in their duties and not noticing “one of the biggest frauds ever alleged at a FTSE 100 company.” EY charged NMC $14 million for audit work performed over a period of about seven years.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The tax and audit practice, through affiliate BSR & Co, will be excluded from the merged entity and could be made into a separate entity, though that is still under discussion, the people said requesting anonymity. Governance Overhauls After Failed Split Ernst & Young is stepping up its U.S.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Miller was appointed vice president for finance in April 2020 and also serves as the university treasurer. In these roles, he provides financial leadership in support of Virginia Tech’s mission and serves as a trusted, collaborative resource for university leadership. It’s free and provides CPE; advance registration is required.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 4, 2023

The last of the 2021 Big 4 PCAOB inspection reports belongs to KPMG, which has had the highest audit deficiency rate of the four firms for six out of the previous seven years —the lone exception being 2019. We selected for review 54 audits of issuers with fiscal years generally ending in 2020. The most common Part I.A

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Audit Fees Rise Only 2.5%, But Audits Require Greater Effort [ CFO ]. and 2.3%, respectively, in 2021, according to the Financial Education & Research Foundation’s Public Company Audit Fee Study. About half of the financial executives surveyed said 2021 audits required greater effort to support than those in 2020.

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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2023

Both KPMG and PwC have been fined by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) in relation to the statutory audits of the financial statements of Eddie Stobart Logistics plc, a shipping and logistics company based in Warrington, UK. And here’s the pound of flesh: Against KPMG: A financial sanction of £1.35

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Anders CPA

JANUARY 8, 2024

Jeanne Dee, CPA/CGMA, audit and assurance partner at Anders CPAs + Advisors (Anders), has been appointed to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Not-for-Profit Advisory Committee (NAC) effective January 1, 2024. She previously served as an Auditing Standards Board Member and a Member of the Board of Examiners for the AICPA.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In an article for CoinDesk , Francine McKenna took a crack at why the FTX debacle happened, and like she always does when there ’s really bad accounting at a company going through a financial crisis, who are/were the auditors: It’s not clear why FTX commissioned two different audit firms to audit its 2020 and 2021 financial statements.

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CPA Practice

MAY 14, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has overhauled its decades-old quality control requirements for audit firms by adopting a new standard on May 13 designed to put the onus squarely on auditors and executives. The PCAOB noted that firm quality control systems often fall short during its inspections of public company audits.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Breaking news: Cohen & Company made a mistake on one of its audits inspected by the PCAOB. Big deal, you ’re probably thinking, audit firms screw up all the time—some more than others. But Cohen & Company had perfect auditing report cards from the PCAOB for 2018, 2019 , and 2020. We’re looking at you, BDO USA.)

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Going Concern

MAY 31, 2023

Along with KPMG CEO Paul Knopp and KPMG Global Chairman and CEO Bill Thomas, the suit names Global Head of Audit Larry Bradley, Deputy Chair and Chief Operating Officer Laura Newinski, Global Head of Clients and Markets Regina Mayor, and the long-exited former Global Chairman John B. The docket number is No. Thornburgh et al ).

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Inc UHY LLP Warren Averett, LLC Zwick CPA, PLLC Expanded reports Baker Tilly US, LLP (12/21/2020 Report) Ernst & Young, S.L. Spain) (9/9/2021 Report) MaloneBailey, LLP (12/17/2020 Report) Today we’re going to talk about PwC Canada, if you want to check out the others head over to the PCAOB’s inspection report lookup.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Haoxin”), a mainland China-based registered public accounting firm, and four of its associated persons for violations that include issuing a false audit report, failing to maintain independence from their issuer client, and improperly adopting the work of another accounting firm as their own. auditing curriculum.

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Going Concern

JUNE 21, 2022

The big hurdle in EY’s plan to split audit and consulting lies in whether or not its partners want to take the risk per earlier Wall Street Journal coverage in which people familiar with the matter told WSJ its roughly 12,000 partners will need to vote to approve the spinoff. increase over 2020’s $37.2 billion (up 5.8%).

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Going Concern

JULY 26, 2023

Williams does not have severe audit firm-induced trichotillomania (to our knowledge) because here she is again warning auditors that the PCAOB is tired of them being so terrible at auditing. To get her point across she had to write a whole-ass op-ed in the Wall Street Journal : High-quality audits are essential to the integrity of U.S.

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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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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. This egregious audit failure is unacceptable. 28 for violating PCAOB reporting requirements.

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Going Concern

MARCH 20, 2023

The Ghost of Audits Past is haunting the EY split : EY’s plans to split its auditing and consulting arms have been dragged into a $2.7 The post Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Bad Audit Haunts EY; Big 4 RTO in India; Why Can’t PwC Hire?? Accenture received the most 5-star ratings, with 25. What’s up with that?

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In first-ever sanctions levied against an audit firm related to its membership in an accounting alliance, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on Aug. 29 fined top 50 firm Warren Averett $200,000 for auditor independence violations during the 2019 and 2020 audits of an issuer.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In that capacity, Urban was responsible for maintaining the company’s general ledger, preparing financial statements, and reconciling the company’s accounts payable and receivable and bank statements. Between 2010 and 2020, Fulton charged Nix approximately $336,645 in professional fees for his financial services.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 19, 2023

When FTX learned in 2020 that in order to be listed on NASDAQ, the company would need to have its policies and procedures audited, senior management allegedly scrambled to fraudulently make up policies that could be shown to auditors within just 24 hours. Don’t use just any accounting system. To be clear, such is NOT life.

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