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Friday Footnotes: Why Private Equity Loves the Profession; A Very Naughty KPMG Employee; WTF PwC Guy | 4.5.24

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Finance ] Aitzarelys Negrón, certified public accountant (CPA) and founder of Strategies and T.E.A., said, “I had been working at a [major] accounting firm since 2015 before being laid off in the fall of 2020. Borgers has worked with Trump Media since 2022. million in 2023 while generating total revenues of $4.1

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Picks a Global Chair; Guy Cusses Out KPMG | 10.30.23

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Instead, KPMG leaked my private texts – but I stand by every furious word I said Nyunggai Warren Mundine has doubled down after his foul-mouthed text messages to a top accounting firm were leaked. After expressing a going concern doubt in Tupperware’s 2022 audit report, PwC has declined reappointment as auditor for this year.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: KPMG Vet Quits on Christmas; PwC Resigns; ‘A Veil of Legitimacy’ | 1.16.23

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A guy who’s worked at KPMG since 1988 talks about writing his resignation letter at 6 in the morning on Christmas, it’s not at all salacious: “At 6am on Christmas Day, 2022, I sat down at my laptop and drafted my resignation letter from KPMG. Hit the six figure mark at 29, but realized money and career isn’t everything.

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Friday Footnotes: A (Fake) Day in the Life at Deloitte; DYNAMIC Merger For Grant Thornton; CPA Awareness | 12.9.22

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Clown World (@ClownWorld_) December 8, 2022. Britain’s biggest companies and their auditors are playing a £10bn game of musical chairs. When the music stops we will have learnt something about how seriously we should take the Big Four accountants’ opposition to audit market reforms. pic.twitter.com/rgsHceHgRd. Firm Watch.

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Friday Footnotes: Bob Moritz Disappoints Us; ERC Window Slamming Shut; 2024 Sucks For Firms? | 3.22.24

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In an exclusive interview with Fenlon, UNLEASH gets the inside track to discover how PwC – which generated a whopping US$50 bn in 2022 – is preparing for the future. Day will join the FASB from Ernst & Young LLP (EY), the global accounting and professional services firm, where he is a partner working in Professional Practice.

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AICPA News – Feb. 2024

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AICPA Shares Plan to Strengthen Accounting Pipeline According to the American Institute of CPAs ‘ 2023 Trends Report, bachelor’s degree completions in accounting dropped 7.8% from 2021 to 2022 after a steady decline of 1%–3% per year since 2015–16.

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Friday Footnotes: CPA Exam Scares Accounting Majors Away; EY Loses Fees in China | 5.12.23

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Talent Why Graduates Aren’t Hot on Accounting Careers: Low Starting Pay, Onerous Testing [ Wall Street Journal ] For Connor Verrett, an economics major and entrepreneurship minor at Washington & Lee University who expects to graduate this month, that roadblock was among the factors he considered in eschewing an accounting career. “It

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