Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2022

With the EY cheating scandal making headlines even outside of our precious little accountosphere we decided to take a look at the full SEC order to answer the question — how and why were EY auditors cheating on CPE exams? The long and short of it is, EY auditors trying to shortcut CPE took advantage of a software exploit.

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JUNE 26, 2020

According to auditor Ernst & Young (EY) , German payment processor Wirecard knowingly gave false statements and was in the midst of “elaborate and sophisticated fraud involving multiple parties around the world” in regards to $2.1 billion on its books that may not exist. The matter concerns the $2.1

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JULY 2, 2020

As the fallout from Wirecard ‘s $2 billion accounting scandal continues, some attention has turned to the Germany-based payment company’s auditor, Ernst & Young (EY). In response to 2019 claims, Wirecard hired auditing giant KPMG to clear its name. Fraud Concerns Arise. ” Swift Blowback. . ” Swift Blowback.

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Going Concern

MAY 5, 2022

On top of the overall pipeline issue, we’ve heard grumblings of auditor shortages for years. The PCAOB is watching , too, concerned about the obvious audit quality problem that arises when your already overworked auditors are now doing the work of 10 people instead of a more modest three to four. Photo by Kate Trifo.

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JUNE 18, 2020

Wirecard has postponed publication of its 2019 annual report after disclosing that its auditor can’t confirm the existence $2.1 Wirecard said in its statement that it will announce another date for its 2019 report’s release in the future. billion in trust accounts — or about a quarter of the value on the company’s books.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

29 fined top 50 firm Warren Averett $200,000 for auditor independence violations during the 2019 and 2020 audits of an issuer. Warren Averett audited the BDO valuation work as part of its 2019 and 2020 audits of CytoDyn. During the 2020 fiscal year, BDO performed certain derivative valuation services for CytoDyn.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 15, 2023

Snodgrass —failed to obtain audit committee pre-approval in connection with providing audit and/or non-audit services to issuer audit clients, in violation of PCAOB Rule 3520, Auditor Independence , and for two of the three firms (BPM and Plante Moran) PCAOB Rule 3524, Audit Committee Pre-Approval of Certain Tax Services.

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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.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 19, 2023

445 professional staff — 93 percent auditors and seven percent tax and advisory — participated in answer sharing during mandatory, open-book internal training assessments between 2016 and 2020. That changed on November 21, 2019 when assurance staff were told via webinar to “complete assessments independently.”

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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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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2023

Reports Financial Times : The firm’s junior auditors were told on a webcast last week that the pay band for one cohort would be frozen while others would increase by 3 or 6 per cent, resulting in real-terms pay cuts, firm insiders told the Financial Times. billion ($2.2 billion ($2.2

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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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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. To protect investors on U.S.

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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. This isn’t surprising, as Marcum is the largest auditor of SPACs.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 13, 2023

Seven botched audits out of 31 inspected comes out to a failure rate of 22.6%, the same rate as its 2019 inspection report but not as good as its 17.2% The identified deficiencies primarily related to the firm’s testing of controls over and/or substantive testing of revenue and related accounts and inventory. The most common Part I.A

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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2023

In July 2019, ESL announced that a review had been conducted into its prior year financial statements. ESL almost imploded in December 2019 until saved by an investment of £55 million from shareholder and financier DBay Advisers. ” PwC’s reprimand for their 2018 audit of ESL was a bit less harsh.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

From the SEC : The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against accounting firm Prager Metis CPAs, LLC and its California professional services firm, Prager Metis CPAs LLP, (together, Prager) for violating auditor independence rules and for aiding and abetting their clients’ violations of federal securities laws.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 8, 2023

E&Y, in the end, agreed to pay a fine of $100 million to settle the matter, which follows similar incidents by PwC Canada earlier this year and by KPMG in 2019. Instead of our collective chest thumping about how independent auditors are paragons of integrity, we should examine humbly the human situation.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 30, 2022

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% EY auditors did get a 100% on their four audits of issuers in communication services, so they got that going for them. The most common Part I.A

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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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CPA Practice

APRIL 7, 2023

In 2021, there was a 17 percent drop in employed accountants and auditors from a 2019 peak, according to a Bloomberg Tax analysis. Auditors can do their work in as little as two or three hours, as opposed to the days or weeks they would typically spend auditing accounting by sifting through file cabinets and chasing paper.

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Going Concern

MARCH 8, 2023

In particular, had the auditor appropriately applied the audit standards in FY2018, they should have required clear disclosures in Babcock’s FY2018 Financial Statements explaining the positive impact on operating profit of significant one-off items. in circumstances where PwC has now been sanctioned four times since 2019.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 3, 2023

In 2021, there was a 17 percent drop in employed accountants and auditors from a 2019 peak, according to a Bloomberg Tax analysis. Auditors can do their work in as little as two or three hours, as opposed to the days or weeks they would typically spend auditing accounting by sifting through file cabinets and chasing paper.

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Going Concern

JUNE 9, 2022

Th is means that to field a sufficient number of professionals to serve ESG attestation clients, the audit firms are planning to borrow from a population of surplus auditors that doesn’t exist. Yes, a udit committees are tasked with making the auditor retention decision. The opportunity in front of the PCAOB.

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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

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. PwC Fined $7.9

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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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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. The PCAOB reviewed 71 SPAC-related audits performed in 2022. Of those audits, 37% had at least one deficiency.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 17, 2023

The FT report goes on to rehash a story about second-year auditors at EY Barcelona headquarters who complained to El País about working up to 84 hours a week for €24,000 a year. Here is an interesting POLITICO profile on her if you want to dig in further.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 18, 2024

This year marks the first time since 2019 that forums will be held in person. In addition to remarks from PCAOB board members, the agenda includes the following: Presentations by PCAOB staff from the Office of the Chief Auditor, the Division of Registration and Inspections, and the Division of Enforcement and Investigations.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 15, 2023

.” Then came several hundred words about Sarbanes-Oxley (“A central goal of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was to restore trust in our financial system by providing external regulation of auditors”) before he got to the point: The PCAOB budget request is $385 million, up from the 2023 budget of $350 million.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The SEC also noted that in 2019, Marcum was the auditor for only 185 public companies, but by 2022, that number jumped to 575—the majority of them being SPACs. Of the more than 860 SPACs that completed initial public offerings in 2020 and 2021, Marcum audited more than 400 of these transactions.

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Going Concern

MAY 18, 2022

BDO followed that up with audit deficiency rates of 39% (2017), 48% (2018), 42% (2019), and a p**s-poor 54.1% (2020). She most recently was an associate chief auditor at the PCAOB and was an audit manager at KPMG early in her career, according to her LinkedIn profile. Failure rates have dropped from 25% in 2018 to 22% in 2019 to 17.2%

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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. Let’s meditate on that before even more fines come pouring down the pipe.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Deb O’Neill—member of the governing Labor Party and head of the joint house finance committee—for notes relating to a 2019 meeting between deputy tax commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn and then- PwC CEO Luke Sayers. Burned Investors Ask ‘Where Were the Auditors?’ Documents related to the Senate inquiry were released Friday.

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JUNE 23, 2020

It appears that neither auditors nor regulators were effective here,” Scholz told the news service. “(It) Wirecard postponed the publication of its 2019 annual report after disclosing that its auditor can’t confirm the existence of $2.1 billion in trust accounts, one-quarter of the value on the company’s books.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

Auditors should be required “to find fraud rather than stumble over it,” Donald Brydon , appointed last year to overhaul audit standards in the United Kingdom, told the Financial Times. Earlier this year, EY raised a red flag when it refused to sign off on Wirecard’s 2019 books, citing false statements and discrepancies around $1.12

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