Going Concern

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

audit regulator for the first time, among new requirements that have faced pushback from auditors but have received support from many investors The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board on Thursday voted 4-1 to bolster the rules around firms’ reporting annually and for special circumstances, such as a filed lawsuit or private-equity investment.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Regulator clears four of nine PwC tax agents over leaks scandal [ Australian Financial Review ] The tax agents’ regulator has cleared four of the nine former PwC tax agents it was investigating in the firm’s tax leaks scandal, with five other investigations expected to be finished by the end of the year.

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Going Concern

JUNE 20, 2025

Max 60 tax audits per partner likely: ICAI [ The Economic Times ] A partner of an accounting firm will be allowed to take up a maximum of 60 tax audits in a year from FY27, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) president Charanjot Singh Nanda said. “I appeared first on Going Concern.

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Accounting Today

JULY 10, 2025

EDT 6 Min Read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Underhanded underground; down on the farm; reality check; and other highlights of recent tax cases. Augusta, Georgia: Two ghost preparers have pleaded guilty to a tax scheme. All rights reserved. By Jeff Stimpson July 10, 2025, 6:14 p.m.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is calling on academics, accountants, auditors, lenders, financial statement preparers, and other stakeholders to provide their views on financial key performance indicators (KPIs). The FASB on Nov.

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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. There’s a whole bill. Well I better read it before I say more.

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Going Concern

JUNE 23, 2025

What’s funny is this paragraph they added to the article: AICPA leadership monitored the debate about the PCAOB’s future, showing general support for the role of the auditor in assuring public trust regardless of how supporting regulatory agencies are structured. trillion under the old method. trillion under the old method.

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Going Concern

JUNE 6, 2025

Audit Fraud culture was ‘pervasive’ at union, auditors say [ BBC ] There was a “pervasive fraud environment” at one of the UK’s largest trade unions Unite, an auditors’ report obtained by the BBC has concluded. Top Remote Tax and Accounting Candidates of the Week | June 5, 2025 Tax I.R.S.

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Going Concern

MARCH 7, 2025

We See You, #TaxTwitter Have you reached the eye twitch part of tax season yet? Entry-level compensation is higher than London even without adjusting for taxes, according to The Financial Times, and the region has become a bright spot in a declining industry. Particularly for deals done in 2020 and 2021.

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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. There were about 1.65

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TaxConnex

APRIL 28, 2022

In years past, auditors could show up at your door asking to look at your records. Many audits are conducted remotely, and an auditor never visits your office. Audits remain an important tool for tax jurisdictions to evaluate the level, or lack thereof, of sales tax compliance within a business. Fear and loathing.

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TaxConnex

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Staying on top of the ever-evolving sales tax landscape takes constant time and attention. Hiring is on the minds of many executives as we end 2021. This growth could potentially impact your sales tax obligations in a way that your team can no longer efficiently manage the already growing responsibilities of sales tax compliance.

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TaxConnex

MAY 18, 2021

As we entered 2021, many industry experts believed that state? sales tax audits ?were sales tax audits to become more common over the next two years. evidence of tax jurisdictions’?ramping Like most things in sales tax, there’s not an easy answer. Likewise, in a recent? TaxConnex survey we saw that two out of five?respondents?agree

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Going Concern

MARCH 24, 2023

Tax The IRS plans to tax some NFTs as collectibles — and the rich would pay up to 28% on profits [ CNBC ] The IRS said it plans to tax some non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, as collectibles akin to art or gems — an approach that would tax profits for wealthy owners at a higher rate relative to assets such as stocks, real estate and cryptocurrency.

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TaxConnex

OCTOBER 25, 2022

There’s always something changing in the world of tax, especially sales tax. The Urban Institute told news outlets that 25 states recently reported year-over-year declines in sales tax receipts, a jump of more than a third in just a month. Nationwide, sales tax receipts were up 1.5% Inflation bites. in real terms.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 9, 2023

Deloitte announced today that Anna Taylor — former tax and economic policy principal advisor to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) — has joined Deloitte’s Washington National Tax practice as the deputy managing principal of the Tax Policy Group. What is the secret to a good PPT?

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Going Concern

JULY 31, 2023

Related: PwC settled ‘false LPP’ penalties days before bid to suppress emails [ Australian Financial Review ]: The Tax Office signed a confidential settlement with PwC in March involving the firm’s false claims for legal professional privilege over 150 documents related to tax advice to a multinational client.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 6, 2024

A new academic study found that companies increase their tax risk profile—thus more tax aggression and a higher likelihood of tax fraud—when they believe IRS scrutiny will be lower due to budget cuts. They also collected data on IRS budgets from the Treasury Department. “We

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Bonuses will also be cut, with staff in KPMG’s 2,900-strong tax and legal arm receiving 55 per cent of the full amount that could have been paid, an insider said. EY moved to a hybrid work policy in 2021 “with the expectation that most of its people will normally spend at least two days a week working remotely”.

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Going Concern

JULY 2, 2024

BDO racked up deficiencies for more than half of the audits inspected by the PCAOB for its 2021 inspection report. For the second straight inspection cycle, the PCAOB found significant mistakes in more BDO audits than ones without (16 out of 30 in 2021 and 13 out of 24 in 2020 ). As a result, BDO followed its 54.2% See: Rise Up!

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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

APRIL 30, 2024

Here’s a snapshot from 2019 that shows how much cannabis companies were paying to which auditors: A look at 40 Canadian cannabis companies and what they paid to their auditors over their past fiscal year. Note that many companies switched auditors so not all fees listed went to the current auditor.)

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, the nearly 4% increase in audit fees over FY 2021 was less than the year-over-year inflation rate in 2022 of 6.5% Executives and researchers cite multiyear contracts that have locked auditors into lower fees and pushback from clients at a time when companies are also wrestling with rising costs. in the U.S.,

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Talent As tax season approaches, accounting firms are short on staff [ Marketplace ] Oh hey! Audit Americanas’ $4 Billion Accounting Scandal Puts More Scrutiny on PwC’s Auditing Record [ Bloomberg ] A $4 billion accounting shortfall would typically raise alarm bells for an auditor.

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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

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? the auditor of Tesla Korea, about the company’s financial statements for last year.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

TPB slaps 5-year ban on accountant involved in $26m fraud [ Accountants Daily ] The Tax Practitioners Board has slapped a five-year ban on a Sydney accountant charged with stealing $26 million through his firm to fund a lavish lifestyle and gambling addiction. We were not willing to let Mr Carter continue practising.”

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

During its inspections of public accounting firms’ audits of issuers from 2021 to 2023, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) saw a year-over-year increase in the number of comment forms related to auditor independence problems, the audit regulator said in a staff report released on Sept.

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ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Today, ESG is resulting in significant opportunities for auditors, fueled by the widening range of stakeholders calling for ESG prioritization, an influx of laws and regulations pertaining to ESG, and a rise in ESG investment products. Then there’s the tax implications. More specifically, ESG-related tax incentives.

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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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Withum

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Remember that there are two separate filing deadlines for 2020 claims and for 2021 claims. The deadline to file 2020 claims is April 15, 2024, and the deadline to file 2021 claims is April 15, 2025. The IRS was already on heightened alert for improper ERC claims, and IRS auditors are already working these cases on expedited timelines.

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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.” in 2021/22. Tingo paid $1.6

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ThomsonReuters

JUNE 15, 2023

Increased focus on ESG There are a number of issues and challenges around ESG that tax and accounting firms need to consider. Auditors are having to expand the scope of their work as ESG is increasingly under the scrutiny of stakeholders and investors. Here is a brief summary of the top five: 1.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Big 4 ‘Shadow’ culture at consulting giant PwC led to tax-leaks scandal: Ziggy Switkowski [ News.com.au ] Consulting giant PwC has been savaged in an independent review that exposed the firm’s “shadow” culture contributing to its infamous tax leaks scandal.

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ThomsonReuters

JANUARY 3, 2023

Too many of today’s auditors are stressed and overworked. Therefore, firms need to ensure that auditors can access the tools they need and achieve the greater work-life balance they desire should they wish to retain top talent. . Auditors are no exception. What challenges do auditors face today?

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Going Concern

JUNE 23, 2023

Audit “When you are a hammer, the world is a nail” – SEC and PCAOB Senior Staff Signal Increased SEC and PCAOB Gatekeeper Enforcement [ Lexology ] SEC Enforcement and PCAOB Enforcement both are pursuing more significant sanctions against auditors, particularly with respect to civil money penalties. 31 is still not finished.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The demand for skilled tax practitioners in the accounting profession has never been more critical. It provides essential services due to the complexity of tax laws and the importance of offering valuable tax-saving advice to clients; and that’s just the tax half of the industry. By Richard Lavina and Ralph Carnicer.

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