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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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

KPMG extends pay freeze to 12,000 UK staff [ Financial Times ] Bosses at the Big Four accountancy firm told staff across its four divisions in recent weeks that they would not receive a pay rise this year unless they were promoted, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Going Concern

MAY 5, 2022

Supply shortages include CPAs but the accounting pipeline problem as it’s called didn’t happen because of or due to the pandemic. Here’s a 2015 AICPA article that sort of cosigns my foggy recollection : The profession’s focus on the CPA pipeline has long been a priority. It’s been happening for years.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

by u/Altruistic-Bee-6372 in CPA Office Space PwC looks to exit Downtown for office in West San Jose [ The Real Deal ] Downtown San Jose has one more business casualty that could head west: PwC. The accounting and advisory firm in an email said it plans to move its office from One Cleveland Center (1375 E.

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Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2022

There is another way of putting this: Accounting is a profession whose brand has not been diluted. For example, the AICPA’s idea of expanding its membership by opening the certified in financial forensics (CFF) certification to non-CPAs runs counter to the exclusivity of the CPA brand. The consultation runs until May 26.

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Going Concern

MARCH 22, 2024

Top Remote Accountants of the Week | March 21, 2024 Practice The worst of times: Issues in accounting in 2024 [ Accounting Today ] It’s a great time to run an accounting firm — except for how hard it is. Atlas CPAs and Advisors undercut the Utah-based auditing firm by $12,000.

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CPA Practice

MAY 11, 2023

Accounting firms have faced a volatile profession in the past year as teams struggled with burnout while staff shortages increased, regulatory changes caught firms off guard – increasing compliance and security concerns – and tax laws became increasingly more confusing for clients and CPAs alike. By James Paille, CPP.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

There’s definitely an accountant shortage out there’: MBAs have become the go-to degree and companies are struggling to hire enough CPAs [ Fortune ]. The Big Four accounting firms are even reaching out to high school students to share that message and creating more flexible work environments, Lansford says.

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Going Concern

APRIL 12, 2024

ICYMI: These are the most-read articles on Going Concern this week: Tax Preparer Finds Out in the Worst Way Possible That ERC Wasn’t a Free Money Glitch Survey Says: Which Group of Auditors Are Most Satisfied With Their Salaries? I want to be very clear: The PCAOB will not tolerate exam cheating nor any other unethical behavior, period.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Significant hurdles remain, however, when it comes to providing consistent, comparable and high-quality sustainability information for investors and lenders, Some 95% of large companies reported on ESG matters in 2021, the latest year available, the IFAC-AICPA & CIMA study found. The current report includes data from 2019-2021.Full

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Going Concern

JANUARY 29, 2024

In the column he referenced this ancient document (August 1993) entitled “The case for non-CPA owners in CPA firms.” Do firms want non-CPAs to be part of the ownership ranks, or is this strictly a rhetorical question? Tupperware hired the Big Four auditor on Jan. Let’s read a little bit.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

With young people opting for higher-paying fields out of college, Gonzalez said that lots of accounting firms just can’t take on a lot of new business. How did one American firm gain 20 net new auditor engagements? EY and KPMG have 294 and 169 CPAs in their local offices, respectively.

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Going Concern

APRIL 29, 2022

4 Ways CPAs Can Explain the Tax Benefits of Direct Indexing to Clients [ Parametric ] Let’s unpack what CPAs should know about direct indexing from a tax perspective—and explore some unique and effective methods for explaining it to your clients. Less work for EY auditors? have quit or stopped all client work.

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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

APRIL 19, 2024

consulting partners by more than 50% compared with last year as demand for advisory services continues to slow and the firm reorganizes its business lines. The Big Four accounting firm is considering adding about 85 U.S. CPAs Have a Branding Problem for the Younger Generation [ CPA Journal ] By Jason L.

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Going Concern

MARCH 11, 2024

We’ll be doing an article shortly, in the meantime here are some quotes from INSIDE Public Accounting : Bob Cedergren, MNCPA board chair added, “I can tell you from my own experience, through conversations with colleagues throughout the country and the members of the MNCPA, that we have a significant shortage of CPAs.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

“The job security and the ability to have a comfortable life motivated me at first,” said Khokhar, who served as a senior accountant at two construction firms and senior auditor at an accounting firm. A greater percentage of accountants are leaving the profession later in their careers now than in years past.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Mendlowitz establishes scholarship at Baruch [ Accounting Today ] Ed Mendlowitz, an emeritus partner at Top 100 Firm Withum and widely respected figure in the accounting profession, has established the Mendlowitz Family Scholarship at Baruch College. Both Mendlowitz and his father, also a CPA, attended the CUNY school.

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Going Concern

MAY 15, 2023

Virginia Society of CPAs is tackling the question “ is 150 too many? ” For nearly the past two decades, prospective CPAs in Virginia have had to undertake 150 hours of education before becoming licensed. But a declining CPA pipeline has accountants asking: Is the 150 now a barrier to becoming a CPA?

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ThomsonReuters

JULY 11, 2023

Accounting firms turn to a three-tiered approach to uncover opportunities Accounting firms are severely impacted by the dynamic post-pandemic economy. Firms are faced with the external challenges of meeting new client demands, increasing compliance pressures, and tax law changes. According to Revelio Labs Inc.,

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Going Concern

AUGUST 11, 2023

Firm Watch SingerLewak Grows in Pacific Northwest With Acquisition [ INSIDE Public Accounting ] Los Angeles-based IPA 100 firm SingerLewak (FY22 net revenue of $89.6 million) is merging in Hearthstone CPA Group of Bremerton, Wash. Koltin, CEO of Koltin Consulting Group and an advisor on the acquisition.

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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 question now is whether year-over-year growth of 18% will continue next year.”

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

AICPA News is a roundup of recent announcements from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The practice aid, Accounting for and Auditing of Digital Assets , is intended to provide nonauthoritative guidance on how to account for and audit digital assets under U.S.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 18, 2023

But after TSG noticed a declining return on its investments, the firm hired an independent auditor to look into how 20th Century was calculating its share, the suit says — and “what the auditors found in sampling just three of the 140+ films at issue was clear evidence of Hollywood Accounting.” PwC Will Appeal $65.5

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Going Concern

AUGUST 7, 2023

The AICPA-NASBA initiative, called the Experience, Learn and Earn (ELE) program, is designed to help resolve some of the financial hurdles to college graduates’ pursuit of the CPA license by integrating relevant online study with work experience through a participating accounting firm.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 6, 2023

So customers have filed more than a half-dozen proposed class actions against the NFL’s Tom Brady, accounting firm Prager Metis and Bankman-Fried as an individual, among others. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, but employment in accounting and bookkeeping services fell by 1,100 jobs. Firm M&A.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

From the earliest days of Going Concern until most recently last month , quality control has been a problematic thing for audit firms. Among other failures, SKP’s system of quality control failed to prevent or detect [Jonathan] Taylor’s improper alteration of work papers in connection with a PCAOB inspection.

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Going Concern

APRIL 20, 2022

As I snarkily mentioned last week , the AICPA has finally released its much-anticipated 2021 Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits (or Trends , for short) report [PDF here ], a behemoth data dump of accounting industry stats first released in 1971 and released every two years since 2009.

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Going Concern

JULY 10, 2023

The audit, tax and advisory services firm reported a 6.4% Other leading accounting firms such as New York-based Deloitte and Ernst & Young also reported upticks in their Chicago headcounts. 12 on the list with nearly 7,000 local employees, almost an 11% swell since 2021. Deloitte now ranks No.

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Going Concern

MARCH 25, 2022

“I would have thought that accountants would be seen as boring, but effective and the perfect person to do a good job on your tax return,” Wijnand Van Tilburg, a study co-author and senior lecturer in the university’s psychology department, said in a statement last week. PCAOB Spotlight PDF here.

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Going Concern

JUNE 12, 2023

KPMG on the UK economic forecast via The Guardian : A new report by the accountancy firm KPMG has found that the economy has enjoyed a better start to the year than it had thought, and is now expected to grow by 0.3% Mississippi auditor Shad White issued a report Thursday that said the state’s public universities spent $23.4

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Going Concern

AUGUST 21, 2023

Someone who isn’t an auditor complains on Blockworks about using the word audit for things that aren’t audits and then explains in graphic detail the various audit-like things that one can engage in (that aren’t audits). Kimberly (Chapman) Massanova has joined Freed Maxick CPAs and the firm seems exceedingly pleased.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 12, 2024

Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. 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.

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Going Concern

MARCH 1, 2024

Meanwhile, the audit side is under increased regulatory pressure because of perceived lapses in audit quality at accounting firms of all sizes. If adopted, the proposal would strengthen auditor requirements to identify, evaluate, and communicate possible or actual noncompliance with laws and regulations.

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Going Concern

MARCH 8, 2024

Audit SEC Settlement Against Auditing Firm Serves as Reminder of Important Independence Rules [ JD Supra ] On February 29, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) announced that it settled an administrative proceeding against Lordstown Motors Corps’ former auditor, Clark Schaefer Hackett and Co. But that is changing.

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Going Concern

APRIL 1, 2024

It’s Joy Merriner’s job as an independent auditor with the firm BDO to go through the city’s financial statements and make sure they are fair and accurate. who founded and runs the accounting technology community Realize. Let’s be clear, this issue isn’t limited to Anchorage.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Miller, a veteran finance executive who was lured to EY from the commodities trading firm Cargill, had been lined up to become chief financial officer of the consulting business if the spin-off had gone ahead. Both CPAs, Mike Gibson is a retired audit partner and his wife Kristy worked at EY too, now she runs a recruiting firm.

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