CPA Practice

AUGUST 9, 2023

billion between April 1 and June 30, according to a recent analysis from Audit Analytics. billion) 2019 : 79 ($32.7 billion, while six special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) IPOs raised total proceeds of $980 million, according to Audit Analytics. PwC is the company’s audit firm, according to Kenvue’s Form 8-K.

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ThomsonReuters

MAY 16, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of auditing and accounting, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has taken a significant step forward with the adoption of a new quality control standard, QC 1000. This new standard marks a pivotal shift from the outdated frameworks that have governed the auditing realm for decades.

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Going Concern

JUNE 9, 2022

Those employers with a history of mismanaging their human capital , like the largest audit firms, are being hit the hardest. To stem the exodus of audit professionals , a udit firms are paying higher salaries to attract and retain the same level of relatively inexperienced professionals. Of course, this means audit fees are going up.

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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. 11 for breaking various auditing rules. Snodgrass, Mancera S.C.,

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Going Concern

AUGUST 17, 2023

LLP, its CEO Nigel Bostock, and senior auditor Matthew Stallabrass for the firm’s deficient audit of music streaming company Akazoo Limited. million back in 2021 “for allegedly defrauding investors out of tens of millions of dollars in connection with a 2019 special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) business combination.”

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Withum

JULY 28, 2022

Multiple businesses notified us this week that their claims for the employee retention credit (ERC) are being audited by the IRS. It is not known whether they were randomly selected for audit or whether they were targeted for some reason. We have written previously about the topics the IRS is likely to inquire about on audit.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A gent who spent nine months as an audit associate at Grant Thornton’s Manchester office got a letter from them a year after leaving that apologized for inadvertently paying him less than minimum wage. Yavinka Mendis, a University of Manchester economics graduate, joined KPMG’s Manchester office as an audit associate in 2019.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The Black and Yellow had been slowly but surely not screwing up as many audits in recent years. After having a not-great audit deficient rate of 31% in its 2017 inspection report , EY’s error rate had dropped to 26% in its 2018 report , 18% in 2019 , and 15.4% For each issuer audit selected, we reviewed a portion of the audit.

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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. Here’s what happened.

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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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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

million earlier this week for breaking various Public Company Accounting Oversight Board auditing rules. Grant Thornton’s India arm and an Australian audit firm also received penalties from the PCAOB. 21 for “pervasive” quality control violations found in its audits of special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in 2020 and 2021.

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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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Going Concern

MARCH 8, 2023

For example, there was no evidence that the audit team had, whether in FY2018 or before, obtained and read a 30-year Public Private Partnership contract with FY2018 revenue of c.£77m 640m – was written in French, but the audit team neither possessed French language skills nor obtained a translation of the contract. .£77m

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CPA Practice

MARCH 21, 2024

auditing standards. audit regulator. The PCAOB found that Choi, Ma, and Dong violated PCAOB standards in connection with KPMG Huazhen’s audit of the 2017 financial statements of Tarena International, a mainland China-based education service provider listed in the U.S.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A new report released on Wednesday reveals that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) increased accounting and auditing enforcement actions by 22% last year, but monetary settlements dropped for a second straight year. Despite the SEC reporting $4.9 In FY 2023, the SEC initiated 11 actions against non-U.S.

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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. This number was almost $150,000 CAD in 2019, up to $4.4 Leading the pack in cannabis clients was KPMG Canada. billion Canadian dollar ($3.7

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Going Concern

MARCH 25, 2024

The reason they took the extraordinary step of changing the clocks on their computers is due to a software feature Deloitte added to their audit suite explicitly intended to prevent the backdating of workpapers. Eventually they got caught when Deloitte ratted themselves out to regulators at CPA Ontario in 2019, leading to a $1.59

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 18, 2023

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. made false statements in its audit report when it claimed that Akazoo fairly presented its financial statements in all material respects for 2018. Crowe U.K.’s

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Going Concern

APRIL 12, 2024

As described in the PCAOB’s orders, from 2017 to 2019, Deloitte Philippines’s audit partners and other personnel engaged in widespread answer sharing – either by providing answers or using answers – or received answers without reporting such sharing in connection with tests for mandatory firm training courses. Er, cheating.

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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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Going Concern

JULY 11, 2022

That’s how much Tanvi Shah made in audit before she decided to quit Big 4 for good and make her social media side hustle a full-time gig. This post brought to you by RAID: Shadow Legends, one of the biggest mobile role-playing games of 2019 and it’s tota–oh wait, never mind, wrong post. £3,000 ($3,600) a month.

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Dent Moses

JUNE 29, 2023

IRS audit rates remain historically low. According to the 2022 General Accounting Office,25% of all individual returns were audited in 2019 versus.90% So how does the IRS check returns and decide who gets a letter or audit? Generally, the IRS has three (3) years from the filing date to audit. 90% in 2020.

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Dent Moses

JUNE 28, 2023

IRS audit rates remain historically low. According to the 2022 General Accounting Office,25% of all individual returns were audited in 2019 versus.90% So how does the IRS check returns and decide who gets a letter or audit? Generally, the IRS has three (3) years from the filing date to audit. 90% in 2020.

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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

MAY 20, 2024

Today the EY organization has announced new technology capabilities and a global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assurance framework for EY professionals as part of a multi-year, technology driven audit transformation program which is supported by plans to align approximately 9,000 Technology Risk professionals to the Assurance service line.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 9, 2024

In September we were tipped to a developing situation at US mid-tier audit firms in which said firms started shuttering their public company audit practices. It means the watchdog will only conduct inspections of the firm’s “public interest entity” audits every three years, rather than every 12 months.

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Going Concern

MAY 18, 2022

While PCAOB inspection reports are only one indicator of how good or bad a public accounting firm’s audit quality is, it’s still pretty embarrassing when a firm gets a bad report card. From 2012’s inspection report to 2016’s report, BDO had an awful average audit failure rate of nearly 63%.

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Going Concern

APRIL 5, 2022

It only took five years, but Scott Marcello finally received some sort of punishment for what happened in KPMG’s audit practice several years ago as partners were working with PCAOB insiders to illegally receive advanced notice of the PCAOB’s inspection plans for KPMG audits. In May 2015, KPMG hired Brian Sweet as a partner.

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Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2024

The audit opinions they issue typically have meaning and value because the firms operate with public trust. In the public company audit arena, this transparency is maintained through PCAOB inspections of auditors. They’re private entities specifically designed to serve the public interest. The new rule would be welcome news.

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VJM Global

JUNE 5, 2023

Additionally, the GSTINs selected for scrutiny for the Financial Year 2019 -20 are now accessible on the scrutiny dashboard of the proper officers on the ACES-GST application. Accordingly, CBIC has issued the following revised Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for scrutiny of returns for FY 2019-20 onwards through Instruction No.

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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

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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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

For respondents, the staffing struggle also meant curtailing business growth (19.23%), more errors in sales tax calculation (17.58%), more frustration from existing staff (21.43%) and, perhaps scariest, a growing lack of confidence in being prepared for an audit (22.53%). There were about 1.65 million accountants and auditors in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Kaspersky researchers studied 174 municipal institutions and their 3,000 subset organizations that were targeted in 2019. In addition, once a city has been attacked, the whole infrastructure is compromised and requires an incident investigation and a thorough audit.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The press release says: A number of Deloitte auditors in Ontario changed the date and time settings on their computer clocks to manually override controls in Deloitte’s audit software and backdate audit working paper signoffs between November 2016 and May 2018.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Ernst & Young’s leaders are expected this week to give the green light to splitting its auditing and consulting businesses, paving the way for the biggest shake-up in the accounting profession in more than 20 years, according to people familiar with the matter. Just how much do partners stand to make from this deal?

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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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