Accounting Today

JUNE 24, 2025

The IRS has lost almost a third of its auditors to DOGE cuts, and now the DOJs special tax crimes unit is axed. When updating partner compensation systems at accounting firms, how to make real change. student in accounting at Louisiana State University and the first recipient of the Barry C.

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Going Concern

MAY 2, 2025

Atkins as commissioner showed disdain for the PCAOB when meeting with officials from the audit regulator, said Martin Baumann, an adjunct accounting professor at Southern New Hampshire University and former PCAOB chief auditor. I dont expect this to be good for the PCAOB, he said, referring to Trumps Atkins pick.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Accounting errors force US companies to pull statements in record numbers, writes FT : The number of US companies forced to withdraw financial statements because of accounting errors has surged to a nine-year high, raising questions about why mistakes are going unnoticed by auditors.

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Going Concern

JUNE 23, 2025

What’s funny is this paragraph they added to the article: AICPA leadership monitored the debate about the PCAOB’s future, showing general support for the role of the auditor in assuring public trust regardless of how supporting regulatory agencies are structured.

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Going Concern

JULY 18, 2025

Private Equity Private equity is coming for accounting firms. While they invest money and resources, PE firms look for profits in relatively short timeframes, often achieved through cost-cutting. While they invest money and resources, PE firms look for profits in relatively short timeframes, often achieved through cost-cutting.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

As noted by Bloomberg Law, the group composed of lawyer representing law firms, accounting firms, nonprofits, and private companies has stepped in to assist attorneys and law students find jobs. Accounting Firms Hire Growth Leaders as Dealmaking Shakes Up Industry [ Wall Street Journal ] Forty-nine of the 100 largest U.S.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

M&A Baker Tilly to snap up Hayflich CPAs [ International Accounting Bulletin ] Advisory, tax, and assurance firm Baker Tilly has announced its intent for the acquisition of Hayflich CPAs, an accounting firm serving West Virginia, US.

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

More generally, accounting talent pool concerns are pressing even for accounting firms , as enrollment rates of accounting students continue to fall. The accounting education pipeline is drier than ever even as accounting degrees require many additional course hours. Are they experienced with auditors?

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CPA Practice

APRIL 7, 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. By Cameron White, SVP of Finance, AvidXchange.

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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. By Cameron White, SVP of Finance, AvidXchange.

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Going Concern

JULY 31, 2023

Former partner Wayne Plummer told PwC partners in December that the firm had made an in-principle agreement with the Tax Office to settle on a no-admissions basis in return for a 50 per cent reduction in penalties that totalled several hundred thousand dollars. Such suggestions are false.

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AdviceForTaxpreparers

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

My name is Bill Meador and I am writing a book to help tax staff succeed in a public accounting firm tax department. Issue 3: I am an accounting major, auditor, or I don’t have enough experience in tax to promote the book. Accounting Jokes, Videos, Puns and Humor - July 29, 2019. by Bill Meador, CPA, JD.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 15, 2023

Shortly after criticizing audit firms for the number of errors they made on public company audits reviewed by PCAOB inspectors last year, the audit watchdog doled out sanctions to 12 accounting firms from July 28 to Aug. Here is a recap of the PCAOB’s busy last two weeks of enforcement and the firms that got busted.

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Going Concern

APRIL 30, 2024

Here’s a snapshot from 2019 that shows how much cannabis companies were paying to which auditors: A look at 40 Canadian cannabis companies and what they paid to their auditors over their past fiscal year. Note that many companies switched auditors so not all fees listed went to the current auditor.)

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

First things first: The PCAOB found that Warren Averett violated independence requirements during its 2019 and 2020 audits of an issuer, because the firm audited valuations performed for the issuer by another accounting firm that sponsored an alliance of which Warren Averett was a member. Nice to see.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

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. The firm messed up on one of its nine audits inspected, and it pertained to the financial statement audit only. and in the world.

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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. However, after a merger, SPACs are very likely to change their audit firm.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 16, 2024

Projections indicate a growth in employment opportunities for accountants and auditors, while roles focused on bookkeeping and data entry are expected to decline. With our Always-On Recruiting service, access a pool of top remote accounting candidates without any upfront costs. Accountingfly can help!

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

.” That’s what George Botic said to attendees of the AICPA & CIMA Conference on Current SEC and PCAOB Developments in January , a get together sort of like Burning Man for auditors except without the psychedelics and skimpy costumes. Auditors are wild, you never know. as well as all broker-dealer audits.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Barring any huge incident like an accounting firm getting raided by the FBI on Christmas Day, there will not be any breaking news. million) in damages from accounting firm EY for its role in auditing the books of Wirecard before its collapse in 2020, a shareholder group said. Don’t hesitate to reach out.

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Going Concern

MAY 20, 2024

PwC is facing legal action claiming the accountancy firm is liable for the alleged rape of a graduate employee following after-work drinks. Auditors are required to include a going-concern warning if they believe there is a risk that the company may go bankrupt, rather than making a prediction that it will.

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Going Concern

MAY 5, 2022

Mind you this was following a record 40,350 accounting graduates hired by public accounting firms in 2012 , and by 2014, the profession logged six consecutive years of record numbers of people majoring in accounting. On top of the overall pipeline issue, we’ve heard grumblings of auditor shortages for years.

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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.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

.” From today’s news release : The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Alfonse Gregory Giugliano, CPA, the former National Assurance Services Leader at Marcum LLP, a public accounting firm, with failing to sufficiently address and remediate numerous deficiencies in Marcum’s quality control system.

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Going Concern

JULY 11, 2023

And here’s their game plan: As an initial step in remediation of this material weakness, we are engaging temporary third-party resources with the appropriate level of knowledge and experience in accounting and internal control matters to complement the existing organizational structure. from the prior-year period, but up 40.6%

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The talent shortage has long been wreaking havoc on the profession and with the accounting pipeline drying up faster than Lake Mead, there doesn’t seem to be much relief on the horizon (if anything, things are getting worse ). This isn’t solely a matter of firms struggling to find talent, there is no talent to find.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

That’s up from 91% in 2019. Sixty-four percent of companies obtained assurance over at least some ESG information in 2021, up from 51% in 2019. While accounting firms conduct more engagements, their market share—57% of sustainability/ESG assurance engagements—has declined from 63% in 2019.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Talent As tax season approaches, accounting firms are short on staff [ Marketplace ] Oh hey! Audit Americanas’ $4 Billion Accounting Scandal Puts More Scrutiny on PwC’s Auditing Record [ Bloomberg ] A $4 billion accounting shortfall would typically raise alarm bells for an auditor. 31, 2022.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 8, 2023

Edward Ketz Written for Accounting Education News , not published. On June 28 of this year the SEC announced its largest penalty ever levied against a large accounting firm because E&Y had many of its audit professionals cheating on ethics exams. Also see my essay “ The Myth of Auditor Independence.”)

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Going Concern

MAY 24, 2024

PwC is facing a crisis in China as partners brace for penalties over its audit of collapsed property developer Evergrande and some clients reconsider their relationship with the accounting firm. This deal, on both sides, was ultimately about perseverance and finding value in an unsexy sector.

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Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2022

Accounting watchdog investigates Deloitte over Go-Ahead audits [ The Guardian ] One of the UK’s biggest accounting firms, Deloitte, is under investigation by regulators for its audits of Go-Ahead, after the bus and rail operator was embroiled in a scandal for wrongly withholding £50m of taxpayers’ money. As a result, U.S.-based

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 17, 2023

Rather than being constrained towards a single country, accounting credentials such as Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Enrolled Agent (EA) and Certified Management Accounting (CMA) are quickly turning into global designations. . This has facilitated a rapid growth in interest shown for such accounting qualifications.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

SEC as EQCF: Statement on Public Company Accounting Oversight Board; Notice of Filing of Proposed Rules on a Firm’s System of Quality Control and Related Amendments to PCAOB Standards [ Statement by SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce ] Auditors play a critical role in maintaining healthy capital markets.

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Going Concern

MARCH 13, 2023

Earlier: KPMG has served as SVB auditor since 1994. Per Part II, Item 8 “Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm” ( SEC EDGAR link ), KPMG issued an unqualified opinion two weeks before the bank failed. Just wanted to clear things up since we’re all memeing this guy and laughing at him today.

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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

JULY 29, 2024

Oh and reminder: the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is working on a plan to consolidate India’s 96,000 little accountancy firms into mega-firms that they think could compete with Big 4 on the global stage. INSIDE Public Accounting continues to tease the upcoming release of the IPA 500.

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Going Concern

MARCH 26, 2024

Last July, Dutch news revealed that least 500 staff at KPMG Netherlands were cheating of the same kind that earned our KPMG a $50 million fine from the SEC in 2019 that, to be fair, was lumped in with much worse attempts to cheat on PCAOB inspections.

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