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Friday Footnotes: Crippling Staff Shortages in Consulting; Hold Auditors Accountable; AICPA is Mad | 8.12.22

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Hold Auditors Accountable for Complicity in Corporate Fraud [ Bloomberg Tax ] Unfortunately, since the fall of Arthur Anderson in the wake of the Enron scandal, the SEC and PCAOB have often failed to go after auditors playing fast and loose with the rules. Here’s how recruiters and career experts recommend that you proceed.

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

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KPMG layoffs by u/corpslave_1998 in Big4 Deloitte fights for another shot at $789M SHARKCAGE cyber contract [ Washington Technology ] Deloitte wants back into the competition for a $789 million Navy contract that was captured by Accenture. The SEC is working on proposals that would enhance disclosures to better protect investor interests.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Wants to Buy; Losers Dump NFTs For Tax Purposes; CPA Demand in 2031 | 1.9.23

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.) — has joined Deloitte’s Washington National Tax practice as the deputy managing principal of the Tax Policy Group. Some stats : With changing tax regulations becoming more complex and a growing economy, job opportunities for CPAs will remain high for the foreseeable future. As seen on r/accounting. I leave you with this.

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

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What CPAs can learn from Smucker’s [ Accounting Today Voices ] J.M. ” 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.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Embarrasses Itself (Again); Archaic IRS Tech; Partners Battle It Out | 2.27.23

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“IRS tech is so ‘archaic’ the agency struggles to find people to work it” from The Washington Post : The Internal Revenue Service, which funds nearly everything the federal government does, uses information technology that is creaking with old age. Yet that is what the IRS deals with every day.”

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Friday Footnotes: The ERC Problem; EY Double Dips; Stress Less in Public Accounting | 5.26.23

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Long Read How a Pandemic-Era Program Became a Magnet for Fraud [ New York Times ] Amid the onset of the pandemic in 2020, as large swaths of the economy went into lockdown, Washington set up various programs to help keep businesses and their workers afloat. million to federal political parties from July 2012 to June 2022, and when KPMG ($1.1

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

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Documentation issues nix Secret Service award to Deloitte [ Washington Technology ] GAO has told the Secret Service it did not adequately document its best-value tradeoff analysis in the award of a $24 million chief financial officer support contract to Deloitte. It’s the second such deal for KWC in Richmond in five years. Audit: U.K.

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