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Friday Footnotes: Accounting AI Explodes; SOX Compliance Sux; KPMG Gets on a List | 6.17.22

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World-wide, startups making AI-powered accounting software amassed $233.3 million in funding for all of 2021, according to research provider PitchBook Data Inc. While accounting technology is moving fast, some firms are still moving slow: #TaxTwitter I just got a customer service request from a CPA firm via SNAIL MAIL.

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Friday Footnotes: Working Late; The Year of the ESOP?; It’s Not Layoffs, It’s “Repositioning” | 1.5.24

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He obtained his CPA certification in 1987 and then returned to Smithville to work with Ed Fuqua at his local CPA firm. Racial diversity in accounting has been treated as a “box-ticking exercise”, Atul said to The Mail on Sunday in December, even when professions are a magnet for minorities.