Accounting Insight

JANUARY 7, 2025

SaaS solution enables automation of complex lease accounting calculations, ensuring precision and simplification Caseware, a global leader in cloud-enabled audit, financial reporting and data analytics solutions, today announced the acquisition of LeaseJava, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution designed and developed by leasing standards experts.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 22, 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. Audit Large Accounting Firms Will Have to Submit Financial Statements to U.S.

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Accounting Today

JUNE 5, 2025

Trifilo worked in compliance for several large accounting and finance firms and recently was managing director at a tax firm where he specialized in transaction structuring and advisory service, tax compliance and tax due diligence. All rights reserved.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 25, 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. LLP, with WAMY and its counsel, engaged in wrongful conduct during Marks’ engagement with WAMY.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) has announced the appointment of Robert W. Scott to a five-year term on the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB). Before entering the public sector, he was employed as an audit manager with the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche.

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Accounting Today

JULY 10, 2025

He was notified of employment taxes due, accounted for such taxes, had sufficient funds to pay them but chose not to pay. million in cash from CRs bank account to pay business expenses, his wages and his distributions. From November 2020 to April 2022, Gregory made false claims to the IRS for the payment of nearly $65.3

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 1, 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. Audit Private Equity’s Ties to Companies’ Auditors Have Never Been Closer.

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Going Concern

APRIL 28, 2025

The proposal to eliminate the independent Public Company Accounting Oversight Board was published late on Friday by the leadership of the House Committee on Financial Services, for inclusion in the giant tax and spending bill being considered by Congress. ” Authors Walied Keshk, PhD, CPA and Edward J.

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Accounting Today

JULY 10, 2025

EDT 1 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Auditors with uncommon first names tended to take a divergent approach to the rules, reducing earnings comparability, according to a new study. All rights reserved.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

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. focused survey released by accounting and advisory firm BDO. House Passes G.O.P.

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Going Concern

MARCH 7, 2025

Particularly for deals done in 2020 and 2021. — Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) March 7, 2025 Audit Chair Williams To Host Chicago Forum for Auditors of Small Businesses and Auditors of Broker-Dealers [ PCAOB ] The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) that PCAOB Chair Erica Y.

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Going Concern

JULY 7, 2025

Hot off the Journal of Accountancy presses this morning , the AICPA has asked the government to delay a September 30 deadline to eliminate paper checks “to and from America’s bank account.” A recently released audit from the Government Accountability Office found U.S. Happy Monday!

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Accounting Today

JULY 16, 2025

Bourla in 2020 struck an agreement with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to use Israel as a test case for Pfizers Covid-19 vaccine. All rights reserved. In Tuesdays meeting, Mamdani appeared to relent on the matter, the people said, saying he would discourage such language going forward.

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SMBAccountant

JULY 14, 2020

This is the simplest form as your books match your bank account. The accrual basis of accounting matches income and expenses in the same time frame, regardless of when the money came into or left the bank account. did work for a customer and sent them an invoice on 6/25/2020. Using cash basis accounting, Doe Co.

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TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Your sales tax obligations depend on knowledge and that knowledge often resides in a professional tax specialist (usually an accountant) who helps your company meet its sales tax obligations. This is a complicated time for sales tax obligations – and a terrible time to try to hire an accountant. from 2020 and down 15.9%

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Going Concern

JULY 31, 2023

r/accounting reacts to KPMG’s summer internship for high schoolers: Staffing shortages at KPMG? The PCAOB’s new rules would widen auditors’ responsibility to scrutinise whether a company is complying with laws and regulations, and to communicate more of their concerns to a company’s board of directors.

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SMBAccountant

JULY 14, 2020

This is the simplest form as your books match your bank account. The accrual basis of accounting matches income and expenses in the same time frame, regardless of when the money came into or left the bank account. did work for a customer and sent them an invoice on 6/25/2020. Using cash basis accounting, Doe Co.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Last month we took a look at the 2024 Robert Half Salary Guide to get an idea what public accounting salaries should be in the range of next year, today it’s a similar report from Addison Group and their 2024 Workforce Planning Guide. The guide covers several industries, we are of course only here for accounting. Say what now?

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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. Now I understand the first reaction of many accountants to the concept of selling anything. For example, you might decide to go on your Facebook, Linkedin or Reddit account and make the following statement.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

When I say “everyone” I mean crypto bros and accounting firms trying desperately to be cool with their PS2-era metaverse avatars, the rest of us forgot about it pretty much right off the bat. Or an accounting firm office. It’s technically a game, but it seems about as fun as hanging out in a doctor’s office.

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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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CPA Practice

JUNE 12, 2023

There is perhaps no industry in which this dynamic is more apparent than accounting; 75% of accounting processes are largely manual, according to a recent Deloitte survey of accounting professionals. This demonstrates the potential impact that automation can have — and is already having — on the day-to-day lives of accountants.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The demand for skilled tax practitioners in the accounting profession has never been more critical. This surge in demand for CPA services comes at a time when experienced public accountants are exploring alternative career options, and fewer graduates are entering the profession. By Richard Lavina and Ralph Carnicer.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

From the report: The independent auditor for Adani Enterprises and Adani Total Gas is a tiny firm called Shah Dhandharia. They were essentially fresh out of school, hardly in a position to scrutinize and hold to account the financials of some of the largest companies in the country, run by one of its most powerful individuals.

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CPA Practice

MAY 15, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division cracked down on accounting and auditing rules violators in fiscal year 2022, as actions within that sector made up 15% of the 462 new or stand-alone cases initiated by the regulator last year, according to a new report from Cornerstone Research.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 28, 2023

While tax time is irksome for business owners, it can be teeth-grindingly stressful for the accountants who assist their clients. In a typical season, accountants can work anywhere from 50-to-80 hours a week, not only providing strategic tax advice but helping set up each client for success throughout the year.

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Going Concern

MAY 26, 2023

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. The accounting firm is embroiled in a national scandal over its use of confidential information about proposed tax laws to drum up business. Have a safe Memorial Day. million over a decade.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 9, 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. So here, take this tweet instead. Also how much they pay offshore staff.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 13, 2022

billion, through false accounting from 2015 until Wirecard collapsed in June 2020. But two years ago its auditor, EY, declared it could not find nearly 1.9 The two others charged in the case are Oliver Bellenhaus, who headed a Wirecard subsidiary in Dubai, and Stephan von Erffa, the company’s chief accountant.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 18, 2023

After reading former MLB manager Joe Maddon’s recent book, The Book of Joe – cowritten with Tom Verducci –it struck me: The plight of the public accounting industry is not unlike that of Major League Baseball. Let’s look at some of the parallel problems facing both public accounting and MLB. It’s important to be uncomfortable.

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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. TL;DR It’s about time!

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has not been in a jovial mood lately. 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. 8: KG Somani & Co.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 24, 2023

While tax time is irksome for business owners, it can be teeth-grindingly stressful for the accountants who assist their clients. In a typical season, accountants can work anywhere from 50-to-80 hours a week, not only providing strategic tax advice but helping set up each client for success throughout the year.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Last week, we published a letter written to Fortune by a former CPA who pivoted to driving 18-wheelers and found far more career happiness than he ever would have in accounting (good for him). Accounting and being a CPA have been the worst personal decision and professional organization I’ve been a part since passing.

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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%. The identified deficiencies primarily related to the firm’s testing of controls over and/or substantive testing of revenue and related accounts and inventory. rate in 2020 , which was an all-time best for Grant Thornton.

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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. And PwC Canada’s junior auditors will learn to keep this thing everyone does on the down-low going forward.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But Cohen & Company had perfect auditing report cards from the PCAOB for 2018, 2019 , and 2020. If you include the last time Cohen & Company auditors screwed up an audit, which was in 2017, that’s two mistakes in the last 43 audits inspected, for a deficiency rate of 4.6%. We’re looking at you, BDO USA.) and in the world.

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