Going Concern

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Expect more of these fines to come, the PCAOB made use of other auditors one of its many nitpicking pet issues last year. See: Planning and Supervision of Audits Involving Other Auditors and Dividing Responsibility for the Audit with Another Accounting Firm , PCAOB Release No.

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ThomsonReuters

APRIL 30, 2024

Auditors rely on data review to ensure the reliability and integrity of financial statements. Auditors must ensure that financial statements are free from material misstatements and that all relevant information is included. It helps auditors identify errors, irregularities, and potential fraud.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The FERF 2022 Public Company Audit Fee Study Report examines audit fees companies paid to external auditors for auditing and related services for the period between June 2022 and May 2023. percent from 2021 to 2022 Of more than 6,200 clients, the average audit fee works out to $2.4 Here’s what you need to know.

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Going Concern

JULY 19, 2023

Hong Kong is suffering from “a serious talent shortage” according to an article today in South China Morning Post and The Hong Kong Association of Registered Public Interest Entity Auditors (PIEAA) says accounting firms should start looking overseas.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 8, 2024

The Institute of Internal Auditors is currently reviewing the U.S. Following publication of the SEC’s draft rule in March 2022, The IIA submitted a comment letter, in which it highlighted the need for effective governance over climate disclosures. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s newly-issued Climate Change Disclosure Rule.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 7, 2024

The Institute of Internal Auditors is currently reviewing the U.S. Following publication of the SEC’s draft rule in March 2022, The IIA submitted a comment letter, in which it highlighted the need for effective governance over climate disclosures. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s newly-issued Climate Change Disclosure Rule.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

billion—that was the total audit fees paid by the S&P 500 companies in fiscal year 2022, a record-high amount, according to a recent analysis from Ideagen Audit Analytics. However, the nearly 4% increase in audit fees over FY 2021 was less than the year-over-year inflation rate in 2022 of 6.5% in the U.S., PwC brought in $1.9

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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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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

percent from 2021 to 2022. 90 Percent of Public Companies Reported Their Auditors are Bringing Data Analytics to The Audit Consistent with the prior year, 89 percent of preparers surveyed indicated that their auditor used advanced data and information analysis as part of their audit processes.

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CPA Practice

MAY 15, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division cracked down on accounting and auditing rules violators in fiscal year 2022, as actions within that sector made up 15% of the 462 new or stand-alone cases initiated by the regulator last year, according to a new report from Cornerstone Research.

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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 19, 2023

While KPMG gained more clients than it lost, Ernst and Young LLP was the only member of the Big Four accounting firms to post positive net new audit fee gains for all of 2022, according to Audit Analytics. Around half of the businesses surveyed currently engage an independent auditor to assess their finances, the findings showed.

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Cherry Bekaert

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) recently released its Fiscal Year 2022 Report to Congress. Contact Us The post Insights Into DCAA’s Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2022 appeared first on Cherry Bekaert. By law, the DCAA is required to submit an annual report detailing the DCAA’s activities for the previous year.

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Going Concern

APRIL 7, 2023

Auditors who think robust regulation of their sector is disproportionate deserve “the world’s smallest violin”, the head of the UK accounting watchdog has said. Thompson said that if auditors did not want to face such pressure, they should do a better job, these people added. Yeah, that checks out. million (USD$58.7

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Going Concern

JANUARY 2, 2023

While the PCAOB has been on a mission to scare the pants off of auditors everywhere in the past year with record fines and scary speeches, the Financial Accounting Standards Board took a much more chill approach to 2022. 2022-01, Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Fair Value Hedging—Portfolio Layer Method [ PDF ]; ASU No.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

2022 PCAOB Inspection of Ernst & Young LLP (Headquartered in Toronto, Canada), Part I.C Independence [ PDF ] The section on auditor independence is new to PCAOB inspection reports as of last year and has a lot of potential for LOLs.

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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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Going Concern

JULY 26, 2022

After a slow first quarter of 2022 , initial public offerings didn ’t take off in the second quarter either. Marcum, the top IPO auditor in Q1 of 2022, had the most total IPO audit clients in Q2 with 10, six of which were SPACs. Q2 2022 Initial Public Offering Trends: 2022 Slowdown Continues [ Audit Analytics ].

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Going Concern

MARCH 31, 2023

auditors who believe their part of the firm could end up weakened by a deal. accountants and auditors last year climbed at their quickest pace in recent years, but industry observers say increasing pay alone may not be enough to remedy a national shortage of accountants. John King and Frank Mahoney, senior U.S.

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Going Concern

MAY 27, 2022

Splitting auditing and consulting: EY auditors fear a pay cut [ eFinancialCareers ] Many auditors also aspire to move out of audit and into jobs in the more lucrative consulting arms. Elizabeth Dugan, CPA, PSA (@LizDuganCPA) May 20, 2022. H&R Block? Who are these people they surveyed? TaxTwitter pic.twitter.com/R03dsOeR7D.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 27, 2023

Big 4 EY auditors escape potential Wirecard sanctions after leaving profession [ Financial Times ] Germany’s audit watchdog closed investigations against four current and former EY auditors involved in inspecting collapsed payments firm Wirecard after they handed back their professional licences and left the profession earlier this month.

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

million accountants and auditors in the U.S. in 2022, up 1.3% Are they experienced with auditors? The accounting education pipeline is drier than ever even as accounting degrees require many additional course hours. There were about 1.65 from the previous year but down 2.6% from 2020 and down 15.9% What’s their customer service?

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RogerRossmeisl

JULY 17, 2022

These tools have become more prevalent in recent years, according to “Occupational Fraud 2022: A Report to the Nations” published by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). Fraud risk assessments have been shown to prevent occupational fraud and limit losses for victimized organizations. When and why?

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Going Concern

APRIL 30, 2024

Here’s a snapshot from 2019 that shows how much cannabis companies were paying to which auditors: A look at 40 Canadian cannabis companies and what they paid to their auditors over their past fiscal year. Note that many companies switched auditors so not all fees listed went to the current auditor.)

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Going Concern

AUGUST 12, 2022

Hold Auditors Accountable for Complicity in Corporate Fraud [ Bloomberg Tax ] Unfortunately, since the fall of Arthur Anderson in the wake of the Enron scandal, the SEC and PCAOB have often failed to go after auditors playing fast and loose with the rules. Cordes, EA (@cordes_tax) August 11, 2022. Notice the fee levels.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The SEC Division of Enforcement cracked a lot of skulls in fiscal 2022, as it brought in a record $6.439 billion in penalties and disgorgement , up from $3.852 billion in fiscal year 2021. Related articles: EY Auditors Cheated on Ethics Exams and Tried to Cover It Up, Will Pay a Record Fine for Naughtiness. We expect compliance.”.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Clark Nuber PS, a Top 100 accounting and consulting firm, announced Tom Sulewski as its new chief executive officer, effective October 1, 2022. A longer, meatier report from auditors was introduced over the past decade in both the US and Europe. The Auditor’s Responsibility for Fraud Detection [ SEC ].

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Going Concern

JULY 6, 2022

In a spotlight released by the PCAOB just a few days ago [ PDF ] the auditors of auditors laid out inspection priorities for 2022, among them increased risk of missing material misstatements (say that 5x fast) due to staff turnover and remote audit work.

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TaxConnex

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Almost half (48.5%) of respondents expect sales tax audits to become more frequent in 2022-23, and nearly one in five (18.5%) cited an audit as one of their chief worries for this year. If you have exempt sales identified on your tax return, one of the first items an auditor will want to see are your exemption certificates.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 2, 2023

For example, according to data from the BLS, the unemployment rate for accountants and auditors is 0.9%, and for financial clerks, it’s just 0.3%. Prior to this, BLS projected 10 percent growth (faster than average) for accountants and auditors for the period from 2016-2026.

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CPA Practice

MAY 3, 2024

By Chris Morris, Fast Company (TNS) The auditor of Donald Trump’s Trump Media has been charged with “massive fraud” by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which says the company “undermined trust and confidence in our markets.” The company had also been approved as the auditor of the upcoming 2024 report.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 2, 2023

Audit Analytics has released “ A Twenty-Year Review of Audit Fees ,” an in-depth look at audit fee trends from 2002 to 2022 and there are some fun charts inside. billion in FY 2022, increasing 0.6% Increases in audit complexity resulted in additional effort from external auditors. Total audit fees reached nearly $16.8

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TaxConnex

APRIL 28, 2022

In years past, auditors could show up at your door asking to look at your records. Many audits are conducted remotely, and an auditor never visits your office. Auditors can tap different data sources to select audits more accurately based on the level of risk, and to use new tools to automate the repetitive tasks of an audit.

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Going Concern

APRIL 6, 2022

As of February 2022, inflation in the United States has hit a 40-year high at 7.9%; the last time inflation was this bad, many of you weren’t even alive so yay, think of this like Halley’s Comet, some day in the distant future you’ll get to say “I was there!” Senior auditor: 1.6%. Manager: 1.4%.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And this is after the PCAOB has warned auditors repeatedly that they are not playing around and are liberally handing out demerits for naughty behavior. Mom is getting ready to turn this car around if auditors don’t get it together. Fair enough. Except what exactly are firms supposed to do about the talent issue?

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 4, 2023

The home energy auditor must provide a written audit report to the taxpayer. Starting in 2024, taxpayers will need to substantiate that a qualified auditor conducted their home audit. of this notice. of this notice, at the time of the home energy audit. of this notice, at the time of the home energy audit.

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CPA Practice

MAY 2, 2023

There is a brand-new section that debuted today in PCAOB inspection reports of audit firms, and it is devoted to auditor independence. “We The auditor independence section will appear in reports for PCAOB inspections completed in 2022, beginning with eight reports that were released on Tuesday.

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