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Friday Footnotes: The Profession vs. Gen Z; CPA Firms Get Back to the Office; Deloitte Quits | 6.23.23

Going Concern

Office Hours: CPA Firms Shift Toward More In-Person Collaboration and More Square Footage [ INSIDE Public Accounting ] Three years after accounting professionals were forced home by COVID and then back to the office, at least part of the time, firms are beginning to settle into a new normal.

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Friday Footnotes: RTO Isn’t Going So Great; KPMG Wins Something; What Auditors? | 5.19.23

Going Concern

Each received the same set of questions, aimed at measuring what share of crypto’s upper echelon employs a third-party auditor and has an independent board. More than half of the firms provided full or partial responses, while 17 declined to participate and eight didn’t respond at all. Chinese companies switch auditors to avoid U.S.

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Friday Footnotes: Higher Salaries Lead to Higher Fees; EY Auditors Quit; Senator Rags on Greedy Accounting Firms | 1.27.23

Going Concern

Big 4 EY auditors escape potential Wirecard sanctions after leaving profession [ Financial Times ] Germany’s audit watchdog closed investigations against four current and former EY auditors involved in inspecting collapsed payments firm Wirecard after they handed back their professional licences and left the profession earlier this month.

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Friday Footnotes: The Metaverse’s First CPA Firm Gets Sued; CPA Exam Blueprints; Mad Mergers | 1.6.23

Going Concern

“When you have a massive financial collapse like FTX, there are going to be many, many institutions—and perhaps individuals—who allegedly profited improperly along the way,” said Samuel Issacharoff, a New York University law professor. Money Diary: A Senior External Auditor On 54k [ Refinery29 ].

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Isn’t Getting a Redemption; Just Say No to NOCLAR; Oh, Layoffs? | 3.15.24

Going Concern

The New York-based company extended its 125,000-square-foot lease at 55 Second St. Audit The auditor’s role in supply chain due diligence [ Compliance Week ] A recent New York Times report detailed alleged examples of migrant children working for U.S. through September 2026, a spokesperson confirmed.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Partners Banging the Client Again; Turnstile Data Shows Staff DGAF About RTO | 1.29.24

Going Concern

This is part of why New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s recent signing of “non-CPA ownership” into law is such a big deal. More on the New York non-CPA ownership bill. In the column he referenced this ancient document (August 1993) entitled “The case for non-CPA owners in CPA firms.”

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Friday Footnotes: EY’s Six CEO Candidates; Deloitte UK Partner Payouts Increase Again; IIA Gets Their Way | 9.29.23

Going Concern

” The updated version, issued on September 28th, removes problematic language which could be construed as indicating that internal auditors are not inherently trustworthy and unable to exercise due care in the performance of their duties. And CPAs in this space know what that means in terms of legal exposure.

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