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Friday Footnotes: Burner Phones For Big 4 Firms; Mandatory Unpaid Leave Rumors; CISOs Hate on CPAs | 12.1.23

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The measure targets the non-audit departments of each city branch in China, including consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory and assurance. How Deloitte gave AR postcards the personal touch [ The Drum ] Deloitte has won the Print category at The Drum Awards for B2B. Employees who do not follow will be counseled out.

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UK Tightens Accounting Standards As Corporate Collapses Continue

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In a statement, the FRC’s Chief Executive Stephen Haddrill said, “High-quality audit protects the public interest, meets the needs of users of financial statements and underpins investor confidence. Recent corporate failures have, for good reason, adversely affected that confidence.”

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Trintech Eyes Transparency With Accounting Tech Update

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will help to make more reliable financial statements, the company says. Trintech is also helping increase companies’ speed at resolving audits and going through manual period end-close activities through the addition of two new APIs: Cadency GL Reconciliations API and Cadency Close Task Field API.

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KPMG Fined Again As Financial Watchdog’s Future Remains Unclear

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auditing giant KPMG was hit with yet another fine from the nation’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC). million in fines for its audits of Ted Baker in 2013 and 2014 after the company admitted misconduct to the FRC. Reports in Bloomberg said KPMG was hit with $2.7 government.

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EY Exec Calls For Retooling Old QC Rules

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John King, Ernst & Young Americas ’ vice chair for assurance, wants to see more consistency from the country’s audit regulator, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), and has called for a retooling of out-of-date quality control rules that are more in line with international standards.

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Why Economic Volatility Opens Up Opportunity For The Modern Corporate Accountant

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“[Corporates] are not only looking at compliance, but how to forecast the cost of [the] coronavirus, how to deal with the different impacts on audits, what needs to be audited, and what will be the impact of financial reporting that a corporation needs to put out,” noted Hampton.

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Aussie Auditors’ Role In Reverse Factoring Disclosure Questioned

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Australia’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services is currently probing the corporate auditing industry amid recent criticism and allegations of conflicts of interest. Reverse Factoring, Auditing Scrutinized. High-profile corporate collapses, including that of U.K.

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