Going Concern

JANUARY 12, 2024

Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Long Reads How Auditor Deloitte Missed A Nigerian Company’s Massive Fraud [ Forbes ] Hindenburg Research, known for sniffing out corporate scams, took aim in June at an obscure Nigeria-based outfit named Tingo Group. Tingo paid $1.6

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Last month we took a look at the 2024 Robert Half Salary Guide to get an idea what public accounting salaries should be in the range of next year, today it’s a similar report from Addison Group and their 2024 Workforce Planning Guide. The guide covers several industries, we are of course only here for accounting.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

TPB slaps 5-year ban on accountant involved in $26m fraud [ Accountants Daily ] The Tax Practitioners Board has slapped a five-year ban on a Sydney accountant charged with stealing $26 million through his firm to fund a lavish lifestyle and gambling addiction. We were not willing to let Mr Carter continue practising.”

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Conflict Surrounding Work-Life Balance in Public Accounting Firms [ CPA Journal ] For years, the public accounting sector has been characterized by high employee turnover. In the past few decades, public accounting firms have implemented work-life balance practices as part of their attempts to curb excessive turnover.

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Going Concern

MAY 5, 2022

Alternate title: If You Are an Accounting Student, Expect to End Up In Audit When You Graduate. Ever since early 2020 we have been forced to learn how to go without, not always an easy task in our always-connected, on-demand, two-day-delivery world. New accounting graduate hires are increasingly being assigned to audit — a shift of 11.5

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Going Concern

MARCH 15, 2024

In 2020, he left the high-flying world of finance behind to become a high school math teacher, taking a considerable pay cut in the process. Audit The auditor’s role in supply chain due diligence [ Compliance Week ] A recent New York Times report detailed alleged examples of migrant children working for U.S.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 20, 2023

PKF Mueller Joins Cherry Bekaert to Expand Chicago Market Reach [ PR Newswire ] Cherry Bekaert is pleased to announce the completion of an acquisition transaction with PKF Mueller, a full-service certified public accounting and business advisory firm located in the metropolitan Chicago area. This move, effective Nov.

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AdviceForTaxpreparers

JULY 29, 2019

Advice for Tax Preparers Making tax preparers lives easier one blog at a time HOME. Accounting Jokes, Videos, Puns and Humor. If you are going to be an accountant then you have to be able to laugh at yourself. AT THE IRS “Why are we paying so much tax?” Short Accounting and CPA Jokes.

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CPA Practice

MAY 23, 2024

She also cites a need to drive the focus and identity of the profession to the work accounting and finance professionals do as trusted advisors. “We We should not describe ourselves by the products we deliver – auditor, tax preparer, etc…but by the value we add,” McCall says. “It

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Going Concern

JUNE 23, 2023

Office Hours: CPA Firms Shift Toward More In-Person Collaboration and More Square Footage [ INSIDE Public Accounting ] Three years after accounting professionals were forced home by COVID and then back to the office, at least part of the time, firms are beginning to settle into a new normal.

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Going Concern

MAY 28, 2024

The local news in Cincinnati covered this strategic move : One of Greater Cincinnati’s largest accounting firms is being acquired by an Indianapolis company. Blue Ash-based tax, advisory and audit firm Cassady Schiller CPAs & Advisors will become part of Katz, Sapper & Miller in a transaction that will be completed May 31.

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Going Concern

APRIL 5, 2024

“No single initiative will solve the profession’s talent shortage,” Sue Coffey, CPA, CGMA, AICPA & CIMA’s CEO–Public Accounting, said in a news release. Finance ] Aitzarelys Negrón, certified public accountant (CPA) and founder of Strategies and T.E.A.,

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Going Concern

MARCH 1, 2024

Chartered Accountants ANZ accidently allowed Peter Collins to avoid investigation by its disciplinary committee by letting him cancel his membership. This was even though the former PwC partner told the professional body he was “subject to an investigation” by the tax agents’ regulator.

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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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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Mandarin has a PwC tax scandal update , apparently they filed their required compliance report early so staff could be off for the holidays. Westberg Eischens has promoted Jordan Smith to partner, according to a news release from the public accounting and advisory firm. Apparently the client has a new auditor.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

‘There’s definitely an accountant shortage out there’: MBAs have become the go-to degree and companies are struggling to hire enough CPAs [ Fortune ]. About half of the financial executives surveyed said 2021 audits required greater effort to support than those in 2020. billion euros ($1.9

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The numbers don’t lie: of 658,267 actively licensed CPAs in 53 of the 55 licensing jurisdictions, less than 1% are Black (2020 data), a number that has remained largely unchanged in 40 years. It wasn’t until 2015 that a woman became CEO of a Big 4 accounting firm for the first time. Accounting is miserable.

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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. Michael Harlow to Lead Cannabis Practice at CohnReznick [ INSIDE Public Accounting ] New York-based IPA 100 firm CohnReznick LLP (FY23 net revenue of $920 million) has named Michael Harlow as leader of its cannabis industry practice.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Big 4 Big Four Lobby Congress on Accounting Pipeline, AI, Crypto [ Bloomberg Tax ] PwC spent the most at $3.27 The Big Four firms targeted a portion of their millions in Capitol Hill spending last year on a pivotal problem facing the industry: shoring up a dwindling supply of qualified accountants. Tax Betting on the Super Bowl?

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ThomsonReuters

MAY 5, 2022

The HFCAA was enacted as a way to work through concerns around the inability of the PCAOB to conduct inspections of People’s Republic of China-based auditors of companies listed on US stock exchanges—especially given US investors’ increased exposure to China-based issuers over the past decade. Overview of the HFCAA.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 14, 2023

” Thomson Reuters has your back : The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) released an analysis showing a concerning trend of increased audit deficiencies and noncompliance with PCAOB standards and rules. employs nine female and 14 male accounting partners. The firm, BST & Co.,

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Going Concern

MARCH 25, 2022

Don’t feel bad, MY job ranked #3 most exciting and I assure you it absolutely is not, I write about accounting after all. “I ” Climate Plan Puts SEC in Rare Role as Accounting Rule-Writer [ Bloomberg Tax ] The U.S. In some cases, auditing firms may be relying too heavily on such outside companies.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 11, 2023

Accounting and advisory firm Grant Thornton trimmed about 3% of its ranks in June. Firm Watch SingerLewak Grows in Pacific Northwest With Acquisition [ INSIDE Public Accounting ] Los Angeles-based IPA 100 firm SingerLewak (FY22 net revenue of $89.6 million) is merging in Hearthstone CPA Group of Bremerton, Wash.

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ThomsonReuters

JULY 11, 2023

Accounting firms turn to a three-tiered approach to uncover opportunities Accounting firms are severely impacted by the dynamic post-pandemic economy. Firms are faced with the external challenges of meeting new client demands, increasing compliance pressures, and tax law changes. According to Revelio Labs Inc.,

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Going Concern

APRIL 8, 2022

in 2020) in the portion of new accounting graduate hires at CPA firms who are ethnically diverse. The precious-metals miner said the board has begun the search for a replacement auditor and will update shareholders in due course. in 2018 to 34.7% In 2002, Engelmann was appointed to the board by Gov. Tom Vilsack.

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inDinero Accounting

MAY 5, 2021

inDinero clients have a team of accounting and tax expertise to ensure accurate financials are fit for business management, investors, and taxes. When the need arises, inDinero’s clients have access to a fractional CFO with industry experience, accounting expertise, and audit acumen. Unsure of your PPP compliance?

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Who says accounting doesn’t pay?? million Bellevue, WA home, full listing at Kritsonis Lindor The PwC tax scandal has eroded the public trust and is leaking over into the already quite untrusty audit sector. The 2017 tax law assessed a mandatory one-time tax of up to 15.5% The tax was due from U.S.

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ThomsonReuters

JANUARY 28, 2021

In 2020, we saw a flurry of COVID-19-related activity at the SEC designed to help companies navigate the business impact of the pandemic. SEC reporting and disclosure impacted by some key 2020 focus areas. In November 2020, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance released CF Disclosure Guidance: Topic No.

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Going Concern

MARCH 17, 2023

Restoring Exam credits expired during COVID would help address CPA shortage [ AICPA ] The accounting profession is confronted with a talent shortage, and reinstating CPA exam credits that have expired since January 1, 2020, could have an immediate impact on our CPA pipeline.

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Anders CPA

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Terrell (00:01:51) – Yeah, so I started off probably like most people studied accounting, went into public accounting, figured out that wasn’t the route I wanted to go. Terrell (00:01:59) – I didn’t want to be an auditor. Terrell (00:16:54) – Like we don’t do tax work.

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