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ATA CPAs + Advisors Merges in Memphis Firm Whitehorn Tankersley & Davis

CPA Practice

Top 200 accounting firm ATA CPAs + Advisors has expanded its presence in western Tennessee after combining with Memphis-based Whitehorn Tankersley & Davis PLLC on Jan. With this merger, ATA now has 240 employees and 16 locations across four states—Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Mississippi.

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Friday Footnotes: How Much Big 4 Spent on Lobbying Last Year; Super Bowl Bets; CFOs Feeling Good | 2.9.24

Going Concern

Three of the firms also joined industry efforts to designate accounting as a science, technology, engineering, and math—or STEM—field, according to federal lobbying disclosures. My buddy from undergrad works office security at one of the Big 4 accounting firms in Midtown.

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Friday Footnotes: EY on the Private Equity Offer; KPMG Tries to Stop Partner Poaching; Taxing the Metaverse | 9.8.23

Going Concern

News KPMG halves pay for US partners on gardening leave amid poaching war [ Financial Times ] KPMG’s US partners have been told that they will be put on 50 per cent pay during six months of gardening leave if they quit to join a rival, marking an escalation in efforts by the Big Four accounting firms to stop staff poaching.

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Friday Footnotes: ‘KPMG Did Not Know What They Were Doing’; Are You Boring?; PCAOB Warns About Confirmations | 3.25.22

Going Concern

PCAOB cautions firms on use of outside service providers for audit confirmations [ Accounting Today ] The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board issued a Spotlight publication Monday containing some observations and reminders for auditing firms about relying on outside service providers for electronic audit confirmations.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Eff You, Pay Us; Let’s Complain About Auditing Again; RIP to a Real One | 8.14.23

Going Concern

When you woke up this morning did you let out a big yawn and then ask yourself “how can audit firms respond to ongoing regulatory scrutiny?” PCAOB staff expects approximately 40% of the audits reviewed in 2022 will have one or more deficiencies, up from 34% in 2021 and 29% in 2020. The rest of it.

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Friday Footnotes: EY Partners’ Snazzy Secret Meeting; PwC Talks Layoffs; Merger Mania! | 8.19.22

Going Concern

We’re adding accounting firm mergers & acquisitions to the weekly news as they’re happening with such frequency and regular Footnotes readers will notice the news is now sorted by topic. audit watchdog’s latest enforcement action against a non-U.S. member of a Big Four firm. Firm M&A: Eisner adds Minn.-based

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