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Why Economic Volatility Opens Up Opportunity For The Modern Corporate Accountant

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With market volatility and economic pressure higher than it has been in more than a decade, the ways businesses manage and account for their money is inevitably included in that wave of operational change. That means significant implications for the ways accountants and auditors operate both within an enterprise and externally from it.

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Aussie Auditors’ Role In Reverse Factoring Disclosure Questioned

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Several high-profile corporate collapses and initiatives from corporate accounting standard-setters have raised questions about businesses’ use of supply chain finance and whether the trade finance tool prevents investors and auditors from gaining a transparent view into company finances.

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Pressure Mounts On Big Four Auditors

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Former ASIC Chairman Greg Medcraft warned that declining audit quality runs the risk of high-profile corporate collapses, pointing to the Enron scandal that went undetected by auditors — described as the “gatekeepers” that “facilitate trust,” Medcraft said. Auditors are not skeptical enough. Global Pressure.

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Here Are Even More 2024 Accounting Salary Projections

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Now that you bravely skimmed four entire paragraphs of icky words, here are national average salaries for various accounting positions according to the report. The post Here Are Even More 2024 Accounting Salary Projections appeared first on Going Concern.

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Auditors Ready To Drop Riskiest Corporate Clients

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As pressure continues to mount on the so-called Big Four corporate auditors in both Australia and the U.K., the Financial Times reports that the conglomerates are gearing up to offload some of its riskiest corporate clients. The publication reported Wednesday (Aug. 7) that the U.K.

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UK Financial Watchdog Ramps Up Auditor Oversight

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financial watchdogs have stepped up their oversight of the accounting and auditing industry amid a string of corporate accounting scandals, collapses and questions over the dominance of the Big Four auditing firms. The FRC has already increased the number of audit quality reviews from 126 in 2014 to 160 in fiscal year 2018.

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150 Hour Rule: Let’s Keep Arguing About What Color the Drapes Should Be While the House is Burning Down

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To summarize most of the article: barrier to entry, US workforce hemorrhaged 334,000 accountants and auditors in two years, pipeline pipeline pipeline, blah blah. And Julie Blaha, Minnesota state auditor: “This is now a severe shortage, and it is causing a tsunami of problems. We needed to take some action.”

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