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There Are 340,000 Fewer Accountants—and Companies Are Paying the Price

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“If the people preparing the financials are overworked, or there’s not enough of them, you will have errors,” said Joshua Khavis, assistant professor of accounting and law at the University at Buffalo School of Management, whose research has documented links between auditor turnover , long working hours and mistakes.

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Listen Up, Young Accountants: Career Advice For Sticking Out Those Early Years

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Maginnis recalls early in his career when Newt Becker, founder of the Becker CPA exam prep courses, told him that every year spent in public accounting is the equivalent of two years in private industry. It’s no secret the workload is notoriously tough for young accountants starting in the Big Four.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Deloitte Goes Big in Boston; Advisory Readies For Pain | 7.10.23

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The firm’s junior auditors have been told that the pay band for one cohort would be frozen while others would increase by just 3pc or 6pc. In lighter news, Withum has added 19 new partners , 11 of whom are based in New Jersey, bringing the firm’s partner total to 225.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Gen Z Ruins Accounting; EY Hammers Out Some Deets; Internal Control Controversy | 12.05.22

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Cohen and Company, CPAs of Rockville, Maryland, merged into Marcum effective December 1, adding to Marcum’s presence in the Mid-Atlantic. They assume since management is doing the internal control evaluation themselves, the auditor opinion does not matter. How is it December already? That’s why it’s controversial.”.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC CEO Resigns Over Tax Scandal; RTO Propaganda; Unproductive Productivity | 5.8.23

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From Journal of Accountancy , IRS must end higher audit rates for Black taxpayers : Black CPAs were not surprised at the results of a study showing that the IRS is up to 4.7 First Republic’s accounts point out that KPMG was auditor since 2010. times more likely to audit Black taxpayers than non-Black ones. The actual term is longer.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Is Tops in M&A Advisory; What You Can Do With a MAcc; EY Consolidates in LatAm | 4.28.23

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New Jersey Society of CPAs Awards $221,500 in Accounting Scholarships [ NJCPA ] The New Jersey Society of CPAs (NJCPA) awarded $221,500 in scholarships to 53 New Jersey-based high school and college students on April 27 at the Pines Manor in Edison. Forget an MBA.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The EY Executive Who Never Was; Deloitte Doesn’t Get in Trouble | 10.9.23

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Both CPAs, Mike Gibson is a retired audit partner and his wife Kristy worked at EY too, now she runs a recruiting firm. Shareholders needed to be able to trust financial reports that have been signed off by an auditor, the association’s chief executive, Rachel Waterhouse, told the inquiry on Friday. “We

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