CPA Practice

APRIL 3, 2023

Despite high demand for CPAs, accounting firms struggle to hire accountants. In 2021, there was a 17 percent drop in employed accountants and auditors from a 2019 peak, according to a Bloomberg Tax analysis. By Cameron White. Technology also gives staff real-time access to their data, from anywhere at any time.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 21, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) doled out a total of $150,000 in fines to three partners at KPMG in China for turning a blind eye to U.S. auditing standards. audit regulator. Specifically, they didn’t appropriately evaluate the reasonableness of Tarena’s allowance for doubtful accounts.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 18, 2023

arm of accounting firm Crowe LLP, its CEO, and a senior auditor settled charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 14 over various mistakes the firm made during its 2018 audit of music streaming company Akazoo. issued a clean audit report of Akazoo’s 2018 financial statements. Crowe U.K.’s

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Going Concern

JANUARY 6, 2023

Fat Joe’s favorite audit firm once again had a spectacularly horrible PCAOB inspection report. In the 2021 inspection of BDO USA, LLP, the PCAOB assessed the firm’s compliance with laws, rules, and professional standards applicable to the audits of public companies. For each issuer audit selected, we reviewed a portion of the audit.

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Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2024

In response, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has drafted a rule that the accounting firms can have public trust or private financials—but they can’t have both. Public accounting firms operate in a unique space in our society. Regulations need to change to match. But what about the books of the auditor?

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Going Concern

MAY 24, 2024

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. ICYMI: Here are the five most-read posts on Going Concern this week.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The PCAOB has scored its first-ever sanctions related to a firm’s membership in an accounting alliance and as one would expect, there is a press release. Given its alliance membership and association with the other accounting firm, Warren Averett had a disincentive to question the reasonableness of the other accounting firm’s valuation work.

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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2022

The hardworking human beings at Audit Analytics have released their analysis of initial public offering trends and IPO auditor market share for the first quarter of this year , a period in which the number of companies going public was minuscule compared to Q1 of 2021. Marcum and Withum combined audited 49.3%

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Cherry Bekaert

AUGUST 31, 2023

Contributors: Jack McKee, Manager, Government & Public Sector With staffing challenges and exceedingly more complex Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) requirements , many government and public sector organizations are finding it difficult to focus on their core mission and deliver results for constituents.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 26, 2023

A new PCAOB staff report sheds light on an area where PCAOB inspectors have observed relatively high rates of audit deficiencies: special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). From 2021 to 2022, PCAOB inspectors reviewed more than 100 audits of companies that were either considered SPACs or that were formed through a de-SPAC transaction.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

BDO USA was fined $2 million and two of the firm’s partners were fined a total of $60,000 by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) for failures in connection with the 2017 audit of AAC Holdings, which through its subsidiaries provides inpatient substance abuse treatment services, the audit regulator said on Tuesday.

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Going Concern

APRIL 30, 2024

It’s been almost six years since the Canadian government legalized recreational cannabis and ever since, a microcosm of financial reporting and auditing has been growing (no pun) beside it. The accounting firm confirmed the move in a statement to MJBizDaily , citing “elevated risk” in Canada’s adult-use cannabis industry.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Lara Abrash, and other Deloitte audit folks happy (bold part added by us for emphasis): In the 2021 inspection of Deloitte & Touche LLP, the PCAOB assessed the firm’s compliance with laws, rules, and professional standards applicable to the audits of public companies. 2019: 10.3%. Uh-oh, this can t’t make Joe U., 2020: 3.8%.

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Going Concern

JULY 31, 2023

Currently KPMG, Deloitte and EY provide both consulting and audit to both the public and private sector. Originally they were just audit firms,” he said. Then the audit firms decided to create this problem by going off and doing their own consulting and the whole thing’s got out of hand.”

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It’s been a while since we’ve done an Accountants Behaving Badly megapost ( 381 days ago , actually), here’s some bad behavior you may have missed. Twice-Convicted Accountant Is Charged With Embezzling More Than $1.1 Palos Hills Accountant Indicted In $7.8M This stock photo is incredible.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 13, 2023

From 2016 until its 2020 inspection report, Grant Thornton had an average audit failure rate of about 21%. Not bad for a firm that had an average audit failure rate of 44% from 2010 to 2015. Seven of the 31 audits we reviewed in 2021 are included in Part I.A We didn’t save the best for last, but it’s not that bad either.

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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2023

Both KPMG and PwC have been fined by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) in relation to the statutory audits of the financial statements of Eddie Stobart Logistics plc, a shipping and logistics company based in Warrington, UK. And here’s the pound of flesh: Against KPMG: A financial sanction of £1.35

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Going Concern

APRIL 16, 2024

See: Trump Media’s accounting firm has a 100% deficiency rate from U.S. audit watchdog and counts Lingerie Fighting Championships as a client [ Fortune ] OK, actually that’s the only funny headline we’ve seen. For example, during the year, there was one engagement partner who was responsible for 147 issuer audits.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 29, 2024

Top 100 accounting firm Haynie & Co. was fined $400,000 and two current and two former partners were fined a total of $190,000 by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on Jan. 23 for subpar auditing and quality control failures. or Haynie’s 2019 audit of Investview Inc.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Business travel remains PwC UK’s single-largest source of carbon pollution, with flying accounting for more than two-thirds of the firm’s emissions in 2022. Navarro-Velez joined the department at UNLV in 2019. Mandatory audits don’t provide protection the entities mandated them think they do according to new research.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 26, 2024

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. company, in a process riddled with conflicts of interest. AI Is your firm keeping pace?

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Going Concern

JULY 8, 2022

Wirecard’s former top accountant admits forging documents for KPMG special audit [ Financial Times ] Wirecard’s ex-head of accounting has admitted to forging documents requested by KPMG during a special audit, ahead of a trial that is set for later this year, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 4, 2023

The last of the 2021 Big 4 PCAOB inspection reports belongs to KPMG, which has had the highest audit deficiency rate of the four firms for six out of the previous seven years —the lone exception being 2019. We selected for review 54 audits of issuers with fiscal years generally ending in 2020. The most common Part I.A

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Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2022

To counter this perception, the accounting profession could be rebranded as a foundational force of social stability and progress, and not just as “a job” with long hours and low return on investment (ROI) on education. There is another way of putting this: Accounting is a profession whose brand has not been diluted.

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Going Concern

MARCH 30, 2022

The latest audit inspection results for Crowe show the 11th-ranked public accounting firm by revenue bombed 27% of the audits reviewed in the most recent PCAOB inspection cycle, but the firm was less bad in its 2020 report card than it was in 2019’s. Let’s take a look: Crowe. Moss Adams.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In an article for CoinDesk , Francine McKenna took a crack at why the FTX debacle happened, and like she always does when there ’s really bad accounting at a company going through a financial crisis, who are/were the auditors: It’s not clear why FTX commissioned two different audit firms to audit its 2020 and 2021 financial statements.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 11, 2022

These businesses have their financial advisory needs served by hundreds of thousands of small firm accountants and CPAs nationwide. Small business has unique needs for accounting services: primarily tax and advising, and secondarily day-to-day accounting needs to act as de-facto controllers and decision makers.

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Going Concern

MARCH 16, 2022

The big news in the accounting profession yesterday afternoon from Dave Michaels of the Wall Street Journal was that the SEC is investigating the Big 4 and other public accounting firms on whether the consulting and non-audit services they sell to clients is conflicting with their independence as the auditors of said clients.

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has doled out a record $20 million in total fines to audit firms and individual auditors so far in 2023, almost doubling the previous high mark of $11 million set last year. In early 2019, the firm violated the anti-fraud provisions of U.S. During an open meeting on Nov.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

PwC Deals Director Orla Fisher, who switched from Audit to Deals in 2007, tries to explain what she does for a living : “Deals is essentially helping people to buy and sell companies. A previously undisclosed government-ordered audit of Twitter Inc.’s A student ready to pick a major asks r/accounting about work-life balance.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In first-ever sanctions levied against an audit firm related to its membership in an accounting alliance, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on Aug. 29 fined top 50 firm Warren Averett $200,000 for auditor independence violations during the 2019 and 2020 audits of an issuer.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Breaking news: Cohen & Company made a mistake on one of its audits inspected by the PCAOB. Big deal, you ’re probably thinking, audit firms screw up all the time—some more than others. But Cohen & Company had perfect auditing report cards from the PCAOB for 2018, 2019 , and 2020. We’re looking at you, BDO USA.)

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

In the ongoing scandal of Wirecard , under fire for fraud, the focus is now turning to auditors Ernst & Young (EY), which reportedly failed to report Wirecard’s “unorthodox financial arrangements” as far back as 2016, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Talent As tax season approaches, accounting firms are short on staff [ Marketplace ] Oh hey! How can employers optimise working environments to support the needs of their accountancy teams and ultimately retain them, all while adding value to their organisation? The stablecoin firm released BDO’s assurance opinion on Feb. 31, 2022.

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Withum

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Form 5500 Reporting Changes Some of the more significant changes to note are as follows: New Participant Counting Method for Audits of Defined Contribution Plans The 2023 Form 5500 and Form 5500-SF Instructions have been modified to reflect the new participant counting method for purposes of determining whether the plan must be audited.

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Going Concern

MAY 11, 2022

While there were plenty of accountants who behaved badly in 2021 , the accounting profession as a whole was fairly well-behaved and competent last year, according to a new report from Cornerstone Research. In 2020 there were 70 accounting-related securities class actions filed by plaintiffs. Good job, everyone.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 20, 2023

Practice Management How firms use stay interviews to boost retention [ Journal of Accountancy ] Job interviews have long been an essential part of the hiring process. But now, some public accounting firms are turning the lens on themselves.

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