Going Concern

APRIL 16, 2024

Over the past week or so, various media outlets have been picking on Trump Media auditor BF Borgers and their 100% PCAOB deficiency rate. See: Trump Media’s accounting firm has a 100% deficiency rate from U.S. Including SPACs, they have 173 SEC clients which puts them just under BDO with 182 and above RSM with 129.

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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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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

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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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

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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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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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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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

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. Moss Adams.

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Going Concern

JULY 11, 2023

WSJ: The widening shortage of accountants has begun showing up in financial statements. We have engaged a leading public accounting firm to support this work. US-based Advance Auto Parts accounting jobs: Senior Internal Auditor, Vendor Incentives Accounting Manager, Lease Compliance Specialist, Tax Manager.

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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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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.

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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

JULY 8, 2022

Deloitte Was a Common Factor at Troubled Mexican Shadow Banks [ Wall Street Journal ] Unregulated lenders in Mexico that specialize in loans to low-income people grew at a breakneck pace over the past decade, until accounting irregularities at three Deloitte-audited firms threw the sector’s credibility into question.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Navarro-Velez joined the department at UNLV in 2019. In new research, Matthias Breuer, Anthony Le, and Felix Vetter find that when companies are required by the government to seek a third-party financial audit, they turn to lower quality auditors.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 26, 2023

Based on these inspections, the report presents several key takeaways for auditors. The number of SPAC IPOs increased from 59 in 2019 to 248 in 2020, then spiked significantly to 613 in 2021. Of those audits, 37% had at least one deficiency.

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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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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.

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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. But what about the books of the auditor?

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Going Concern

APRIL 14, 2023

Staffing Drama Signal Mountain Won’t Pay Accounting Firm For Extra Work On Audit [ Chattanoogan.com ] Clients are the worst The Signal Mountain Town Council has declined to pay an auditing firm extra money it said was due because of inadequate help from city employees in preparing the annual city audit.

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Going Concern

JULY 17, 2023

KPMG Nederland director Marc Hogeboom is also stepping down as boss of the accounting arm, but remains an auditor and partner at KPMG. He said in a statement he “should have been more alert to signals” that pointed towards workers sharing their answers. Accountancy firms play an important role in society.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

According to allegations in the indictment, from January 2019 to June 2022, Urban was employed as a senior staff accountant for a Charlotte-based company. He also failed to pay over $1 million in outstanding tax debts he and his accounting firm, Carter’s Tax Advisory, owed.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

During the third quarter of 2018, AAC found that it had collected far less on accounts receivable than expected and determined that it needed to restate its 2016 and 2017 financial statements. In June 2020, AAC filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, according to the PCAOB.

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Going Concern

JULY 28, 2023

He graduated summa cum laude in accounting from Baruch College with numerous other academic awards and a continuing passion for wrestling, Ping Pong and handball. He was drafted into the army in 1952 and returned to the accounting firm in 1954. The IRS audit rate for large partnerships has dropped to less than 0.5% since 2007.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 26, 2024

AI Is your firm keeping pace? How AI is transforming audit [ Thomson Reuters ] In the past, auditors have heavily relied on manual processes to uncover risks in financial statements and business operations. His appointment as CEO, subject to regulatory approval, marks the beginning of a new era for the firm. “I

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Going Concern

AUGUST 4, 2023

Technology With generative AI, start with the basics, EY tells CFOs [ CFO Dive ] The best thing for CFOs today is just “take a look at their operations,” Michael Kelly, partner and management consulting consultant at Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young said.

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Going Concern

MAY 13, 2022

Junior KPMG auditor ‘should not lose his home’ for misleading regulator, says tribunal [ Financial Times ] A former junior KPMG auditor should not receive a fine so large it could force him to sell his matrimonial home, a tribunal has said. ” COVID-19 has negatively impacted how auditors work [ Phys.org ] Duh?

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 11, 2022

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. The traditional Big 4 accounting firms in the United States are Ernst and Young; KPMG; Price Waterhouse Coopers(PwC) and Deloitte Touche.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Donald Bender, a partner at accounting firm Mazars USA, had been under tense cross-examination by Trump’s attorneys since Tuesday afternoon when they called him out over his apparent memory loss during the final hours on the witness stand. Technology How do different accounting firms use AI? 1, KPMG said.

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Going Concern

MARCH 17, 2023

The best financial planners or wealth managers will set themselves apart with outstanding soft skills.” Johnson continues, “If accounting firms want to venture deeper into the world of financial planning or wealth management, I suspect they would not be able to find enough CPAs with the necessary skill set to easily step into the role.

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