Accounting Today

JUNE 5, 2025

After the company told him that the bank would not approve the loan without copies of his filed returns, Trifilo provided fabricated documents to make it appear as if he had filed federal returns for 2020 and 2021. From around 2010 to 2020, Alvarez was the CEO, owner and manager of ATAX New York, also d.b.a.

Tax

Going Concern

JUNE 30, 2025

Meanwhile, at PwC UK : PwC is planning to cut about 175 junior auditors in the UK and has told other staff that pay rises will be lower this year, as the Big Four firm grapples with tougher market conditions. I think we can safely assume clients aren’t getting a 30% discount. to procure these services very quickly.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 25, 2024

. — Going Concern (@going_concern) October 23, 2024 Local Potsdam village officials to begin search for new auditing firm [ North Country Now (New York)] The country-wide municipal mess continues… The village [of Potsdam, NY] is looking for a new firm to complete its annual fiscal audit.

accounting and finance

Going Concern

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Audit Large Accounting Firms Will Have to Submit Financial Statements to U.S. audit watchdog also voted 4-1 on a separate rule to require hundreds of firms to publicly disclose a set of eight metrics, ranging from auditor turnover to partner involvement, workload and work experience.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Before entering the public sector, he was employed as an audit manager with the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche. Ray was appointed to her first term on the GASB in 2020. She is the former Colorado state auditor, having served in that role for 10 years. Prior to becoming a state auditor, Ms.

Wisconsin

Accounting Today

JULY 10, 2025

From November 2020 to April 2022, Gregory made false claims to the IRS for the payment of nearly $65.3 For 2015 through 2020, he prepared and filed at least 54 false returns for clients. million in refunds for the purported farming-and-transportation company Elijah USA Farm Holdings. Her conduct cost the IRS more than $300,000.

Tax

Going Concern

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Audit Private Equity’s Ties to Companies’ Auditors Have Never Been Closer. accounting firms will have either sold an ownership stake or part of their business to private-equity investors, up from zero in 2020, said Allan Koltin, chief executive at advisory firm Koltin Consulting Group. That Worries Some Regulators.

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Going Concern

APRIL 28, 2025

In addition, 13 faculty members (including 1 adjunct) suggested that accounting and auditing professionals work more closely with faculty members to update the accounting curriculum. Salt Lake Tribune gets into the weeds on how exactly they stole it and the paper trail they left for auditors if you’re into that sort of thing.

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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. They analyzed filings from nearly 3,000 public companies from 2016-2020.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The sources said PwCs auditing projects would not be affected. Another FW S-T article on the topic states “In recent days, parents on a Keller Facebook page have questioned the cost of the RSM audit, as well as the process by which RSM was selected to perform the audit.” The reason behind the decision is unclear.

West Virginia

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.

Government

Going Concern

JULY 7, 2025

The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer of Georgia has done an interesting deep dive on the rot within the city government’s finance department and how a certain event in 2020 concealed it for years: This year, former Columbus city manager Isaiah Hugley was fired. A recently released audit from the Government Accountability Office found U.S.

Real Estate

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. In Tuesdays meeting, Mamdani appeared to relent on the matter, the people said, saying he would discourage such language going forward.

Tax

Going Concern

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Last week the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (think Aussie PCAOB) informed us that Deloitte and KPMG need to take “continued deliberate and concerted action” to improve the quality of their audit work because apparently it is just that bad. In short, things are not looking so hot for upside down auditors.

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SMBAccountant

JULY 14, 2020

did work for a customer and sent them an invoice on 6/25/2020. They did not receive payment for the invoice until 7/3/2020. The issue is that auditors don’t arrive only after the fiscal year has been closed. For example: Doe Co. Using cash basis accounting, Doe Co.

Government

Going Concern

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The PCAOB should be dropping the first batch of 2021 inspection reports soon, and as an appetizer before the main course, the audit cops issued a report Dec. 8 on how the 141 annually and triennially inspected firms did overall during the most recent inspection cycle, in which portions of 690 audits were reviewed. In Part I.B

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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%). million accountants and auditors in the U.S. There were about 1.65

Sales

Going Concern

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

We are here to talk about how Hindenburg sniffed out Adani’s audit firm and what it found. From the report: The independent auditor for Adani Enterprises and Adani Total Gas is a tiny firm called Shah Dhandharia. The only other listed entity we found that it audits has a market capitalization of about INR 640 million (U.S.

audit

Going Concern

JULY 7, 2022

EY has had a few firsts in recent years: first Big 4 firm with unlimited PTO , first audit firm to get a $100 million fine from the SEC , first Big 4 firm to compare men and women with waffles and pancakes , and first place among the Big 4 in public company audit clients for the past seven years. Together, these 10 firms audit 68.8%

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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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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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CPA Practice

MAY 10, 2023

The head of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) said today that its inspectors found significant deficiencies in the audits of U.S.-listed auditors to inspect the records of U.S.-listed She said this is common practice for inspections of PCAOB-registered audit firms around the world. listed Chinese companies.

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Accounting Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Auditors are including CAMs in more of their opinions but disclosing fewer CAMs per opinion, according to an Ideagen report.

auditor

Going Concern

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Some time last year PCAOB inspectors visited China and while details of their visit were kept somewhat quiet from both sides, we were told that the inspectors gained unprecedented access to Chinese audit work.

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ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 9, 2020

It will come as no surprise after the year we’ve had: the growing risk of fraud in the 2020 year-end audit is real. A number of audit clients have been struggling to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. The period in which revenue is recorded, for instance, is something auditors will have to pay special attention.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 12, 2024

Long Reads How Auditor Deloitte Missed A Nigerian Company’s Massive Fraud [ Forbes ] Hindenburg Research, known for sniffing out corporate scams, took aim in June at an obscure Nigeria-based outfit named Tingo Group. These issues were apparently not glaring enough for the company’s auditor, however.” million in audit fees in 2022.)

audit

Going Concern

JULY 26, 2022

In fact, the 46 IPOs in Q2 was the fewest since the first quarter of 2020 (38), and the $5.3 billion), according to a new analysis from Audit Analytics. Even though SPACs are going through a rough patch, public accounting firms that are SPAC auditing machines were kept the busiest in Q2. appeared first on Going Concern.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The NMC Health collapse of 2020 is still haunting EY UK, this time in London High Court as NMC administrators accuse the firm of failing in their duties and not noticing “one of the biggest frauds ever alleged at a FTSE 100 company.” EY charged NMC $14 million for audit work performed over a period of about seven years.

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Going Concern

JULY 31, 2023

Currently KPMG, Deloitte and EY provide both consulting and audit to both the public and private sector. Originally they were just audit firms,” he said. Then the audit firms decided to create this problem by going off and doing their own consulting and the whole thing’s got out of hand.”

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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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CPA Practice

APRIL 15, 2023

EY was considering splitting up its audit and consulting units to avoid suggestions of a conflict of interest between the two practices. Following a split, EY would have been able to advise companies for which it also acted as auditor. leader Julie Boland would have overseen the audit business. And the rules are tightening.

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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

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

MARCH 11, 2024

The results of The 2024 North American Pulse of Internal Audit Survey , from the Internal Audit Foundation, finds a growing profession, with Chief Audit Executives (CAEs) more than twice as likely to have increased staff (26%) than to have decreased staff (9%). These results point to a dynamic and evolving profession.”

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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. Cue the public exclaiming “where were the auditors!?” issued a clean audit report of Akazoo’s 2018 financial statements. A couple days ago the SEC charged Crowe U.K.

audit

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. auditing curriculum. Here’s what happened. So we kinda already knew there was some cheating going on over there.

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Going Concern

JULY 2, 2024

The other day, BDO USA released a press release entitled “BDO Strengthens Audit Quality Commitment with Addition of Second Independent Member on Audit Quality Advisory Council ,”the content of which strongly suggests that their next Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspection is going to be hot garbage.

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