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Accountants Behaving Badly: Police Department Accountant Couldn’t Be Bothered, PPP Loan Fraud, and a Creepy Tax Preparer

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Attorney’s Office, Western District of North Carolina ] A federal grand jury in Charlotte has indicted Mandy Deann Urban, 47, formerly of Charlotte, with wire fraud, for allegedly embezzling more than $1.1 Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. million from her employer, announced Dena J.

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Friday Footnotes: Remembering Legend Sid Kess; Andersen’s Doing Great; Poland Banned Deloitte From Auditing? | 9.22.23

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Tax ERC abuse brings renewed push for regulation of paid tax preparers [ Journal of Accountancy ] buse of the employee retention credit (ERC) by aggressive promoters who make questionable promises has pushed Treasury to renew the call for the regulation of paid tax return preparers, an action that has the AICPA’s support.

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Sales tax and nonprofits

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Location, location, location 501(c)(3) organizations are exempt from sales tax on their purchases in Colorado and in Utah. Sometimes nonprofits and not-for-profits must pay sales tax when they buy items, at least initially, as in North Carolina. But as always with sales tax, rules vary state to state.

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

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Audit “When you are a hammer, the world is a nail” – SEC and PCAOB Senior Staff Signal Increased SEC and PCAOB Gatekeeper Enforcement [ Lexology ] SEC Enforcement and PCAOB Enforcement both are pursuing more significant sanctions against auditors, particularly with respect to civil money penalties. 31 is still not finished.

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Friday Footnotes: Big 4 Culture Gets Slammed Again; Audit Leads the Way in AI; Small Firm Gripes | 11.10.23

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They also expect auditors to understand and evaluate processes and controls, analyze transaction-level data for anomalies, and test more data in real-time,” said Scott Flynn, KPMG vice chair—Audit, in a news release. Earnest and Randell were separately convicted of individual counts of preparing false tax returns.

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Friday Footnotes: EY Split Drags Out; Advisory Firm Defrauds Clients; Student Loan Forgiveness and Taxes | 9.2.22

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SEC Charges Advisory Firm and Executives with Devising an Elaborate Scheme to Defraud Clients out of More Than $75 Million [ SEC ] The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two North Carolina-based executives, Gregory E. tax laws, giving the IRS $15 million to design a free “e-file” tax return system.

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Accountants Behaving Badly: Kickback Schemes, Hiding Money From the IRS, Embezzlement Spree

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Plus, Pennsylvania accountant loves tax evasion, North Carolina CPA indicted on securities fraud charge, and Kentucky accountant gets jail time for sex trafficking. Hammer, who pleaded guilty in August 2018 to one count of filing a false tax return, was the financial officer for various companies controlled by Michael D.