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Friday Footnotes: Why People Leave Public Accounting; Audit Workloads Up; Terrorist Clients (Literally) | 12.2.22

Going Concern

The following is a discussion of what I have found to be the most common reasons why people leave public accounting. Audit committee disclosures increase, right along with workload [ Journal of Accountancy ]. The Pentagon Can’t Count: It’s Time to Reinvent the Audit [ War on the Rocks ].

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Friday Footnotes: PwC in Trouble?; A Backwards Accountant; Audit Committee Musical Chairs | 1.13.23

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Audit Committee Composition Changing Amid Expanded Scope and Emerging Risks, According to New Report from Deloitte and the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ) [ PR Newswire ]. provides insight into shifting oversight priorities and practices related to audit committee composition.

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Paul Munter to Take Over as SEC Chief Accountant

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As chief accountant, Munter will continue to lead the Office of the Chief Accountant and serve as the principal advisor to the SEC on accounting and auditing matters. I look forward to continuing to support work that improves the quality of financial reporting and auditing domestically and internationally.

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Miami Businessman Charged With Hiding Millions in Swiss Bank Accounts, Evading Taxes

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By Jay Weaver, Miami Herald (TNS) A wealthy South Florida businessman was arrested over the weekend on charges that he defrauded the U.S. government by hiding millions of dollars in Swiss bank accounts and lying to the IRS about his foreign assets for decades, according to federal authorities. He’s not going to flee.”

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Friday Footnotes: CPA Exam Scares Accounting Majors Away; EY Loses Fees in China | 5.12.23

Going Concern

The Asian country recently urged state-owned enterprises to phase out Big Four contracts and hire locally instead in a bid to rein in foreign accountants amid what it called data security concerns. KPMG, PwC and Deloitte got less than 4% each, according to data from the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants analyzed by Bloomberg.

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Friday Footnotes: Opinions!; EY’s Blockchain Aspirations; KPMG Junior Reprimanded | 9.30.22

Going Concern

Unlike anybody else, we’re actually building tools and applications in this space, so we built, for example, our own blockchain audit platform, where we can do on-chain and off-chain transaction reconciliation,” said Paul Brody,blockchain lead at EY. Rehmann merges in Vestal & Wiler [ Accounting Today ]. Accountant Life.

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Friday Footnotes: XOXO, Accountants; PwC Wants Tax Cuts; KPMG Stacks Partners | 7.1.22

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Marking a Half-Century of Capital Markets Integrity [ Barron’s ] Former chair of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and trustee and chair of the Financial Accounting Foundation John J. GAAP, or generally accepted accounting principles. Brennan writes: The bedrock of that reporting regime is U.S.

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