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Listen Up, Young Accountants: Career Advice For Sticking Out Those Early Years

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Maginnis recalls early in his career when Newt Becker, founder of the Becker CPA exam prep courses, told him that every year spent in public accounting is the equivalent of two years in private industry. In other words, they weren’t satisfied with understanding debits, credits, and audits.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC CEO Resigns Over Tax Scandal; RTO Propaganda; Unproductive Productivity | 5.8.23

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Partners had complained that Mr Seymour’s ongoing preference to treat the matter as a legal argument instead of dealing head-on with the issues had become a threat to the firm’s reputation in the wider consulting and auditing market. times more likely to audit Black taxpayers than non-Black ones. said in an interview with the JofA.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Gen Z Ruins Accounting; EY Hammers Out Some Deets; Internal Control Controversy | 12.05.22

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Cohen and Company, CPAs of Rockville, Maryland, merged into Marcum effective December 1, adding to Marcum’s presence in the Mid-Atlantic. They assume since management is doing the internal control evaluation themselves, the auditor opinion does not matter. It is unclear if this process will constitute a full third-party audit.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Deloitte Goes Big in Boston; Advisory Readies For Pain | 7.10.23

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New to Crain’s top 25 is New York-based KPMG. The audit, tax and advisory services firm reported a 6.4% Other leading accounting firms such as New York-based Deloitte and Ernst & Young also reported upticks in their Chicago headcounts. increase in its Chicago workforce, with 2,863 local employees.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Is Tops in M&A Advisory; What You Can Do With a MAcc; EY Consolidates in LatAm | 4.28.23

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New Jersey Society of CPAs Awards $221,500 in Accounting Scholarships [ NJCPA ] The New Jersey Society of CPAs (NJCPA) awarded $221,500 in scholarships to 53 New Jersey-based high school and college students on April 27 at the Pines Manor in Edison. Forget an MBA.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The EY Executive Who Never Was; Deloitte Doesn’t Get in Trouble | 10.9.23

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Both CPAs, Mike Gibson is a retired audit partner and his wife Kristy worked at EY too, now she runs a recruiting firm. 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.

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

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Audit Watchdog Fines KPMG Korea for Quality Control Failures [ Wall Street Journal ] The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board on Tuesday fined KPMG LLP’s Korea unit $350,000 for failing to set up adequate quality controls to prevent improper changes to work papers. audit watchdog’s latest enforcement action against a non-U.S.

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