Going Concern

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The initial public offering slump of 2022 continued in the third quarter, as the 39 IPOs that raised a combined $3.1 billion, according to a new analysis from Audit Analytics. The amount raised in Q3 2022 is the smallest since the first quarter of 2016 when a combined $2.9 markets in Q3 2021, which raised a total of $49.7

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The paper-pushers at the PCAOB have punished another audit firm for running afoul of their rules , this time it’s Smythe of British Columbia, Canada and no one involved in this story is based in the United States except for said paper-pushers. The firm used the work of PwC Malta on the Scully audits, PKF Audisur on Tower One.

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Going Concern

MAY 26, 2023

The accounting firm is embroiled in a national scandal over its use of confidential information about proposed tax laws to drum up business. Boland has appointed Marcelo Bartholo, who heads EY’s eastern region in the US, to be her deputy, and gave King’s job to Dante D’Egidio, chief of the audit business in the same region.

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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 listed Chinese companies conducted by KPMG’s affiliate in mainland China and PwC’s member firm in Hong Kong. In August, China struck a deal allowing U.S.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 21, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) doled out a total of $150,000 in fines to three partners at KPMG in China for turning a blind eye to U.S. auditing standards. audit regulator. Specifically, they didn’t appropriately evaluate the reasonableness of Tarena’s allowance for doubtful accounts.

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ThomsonReuters

MAY 16, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of auditing and accounting, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has taken a significant step forward with the adoption of a new quality control standard, QC 1000. This function is tasked with exercising independent judgment regarding the firm’s QC system.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Here’s what happened: Ontario public accounting licensing body CPA Ontario reached an out-of-court settlement with Marcum LLP resolving allegations of multiple instances of US Marcum partners performing work in Ontario — including issuer audits — without said partners being licensed to practice in the province.

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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. in 2022, up 1.3%

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Going Concern

MAY 28, 2024

The local news in Cincinnati covered this strategic move : One of Greater Cincinnati’s largest accounting firms is being acquired by an Indianapolis company. Blue Ash-based tax, advisory and audit firm Cassady Schiller CPAs & Advisors will become part of Katz, Sapper & Miller in a transaction that will be completed May 31.

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Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2022

CNN found that he received this money for businesses he classified as tax firms and related entities even though he wasn’t a certified public accountant and a court injunction had barred him from masquerading as one. Top Audit Firms in Crosshairs as U.K. Kartagener, CPA, MST (@GrantGatorCPA) April 15, 2022.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2022

That level being $3 billion —a first in the firm ’s 96-year, multinamed history. In its 2022 annual report , which was released earlier this week, RSM US noted that its revenue for the year ending April 30 was $3.3 billion ($3,310,265,000 according to INSIDE Public Accounting ), a 15% increase over its 2021 revenue of nearly $2.9

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CPA Practice

JUNE 13, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on June 12 updated a nearly 20-year-old rule on auditor conduct, making it easier for the audit regulator to hold associated persons of an accounting firm accountable when their negligence “directly and substantially” causes the firm to violate auditing standards.

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Going Concern

APRIL 6, 2022

As of February 2022, inflation in the United States has hit a 40-year high at 7.9%; the last time inflation was this bad, many of you weren’t even alive so yay, think of this like Halley’s Comet, some day in the distant future you’ll get to say “I was there!” Senior tax accountant: 1.4%. Manager: 2%.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 12, 2023

A talent shortage is affecting accounting firms across the demographic spectrum. Each year fewer accountants enter the profession while more CPAs near retirement. According to the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, the number of U.S. Audit directors and managers work 295.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

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. Behemoth’ big four consulting firms keep getting bigger [ Australian Financial Review ]. Income at the big four consulting firms jumped 17 per cent to hit $9.91

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Michael Harlow to Lead Cannabis Practice at CohnReznick [ INSIDE Public Accounting ] New York-based IPA 100 firm CohnReznick LLP (FY23 net revenue of $920 million) has named Michael Harlow as leader of its cannabis industry practice. billion the company generated for all of 2022. That compares with the $1.6

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 12, 2023

post-secondary accounting degrees fell sharply in the 2021-22 academic year, according to a biennial American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) report on trends related to accounting graduation rates, the CPA Exam and hiring demand by accounting firms. The number of students earning U.S.

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Going Concern

APRIL 11, 2022

1 bestest company for 2022, according to Fortune , is Cysco Systems. That category also includes seven public accounting firms that are among the 15 largest in the US by revenue. So we’ll start our coverage of the 2022 BCTWF with the highest-ranked among them: Deloitte at No. And the No. Congrats to them.

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Going Concern

JULY 13, 2023

PCAOB Rule 2203, Special Reports requires any registered public accounting firm to file a special report on Form 3 to report information to the Board no later than thirty days after the occurrence of the event. million penalty for the firm. You can read about that here.

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Withum

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Audited financial statements are a cornerstone of the financial markets. Tonight I will conduct my second Auditing class session of this semester at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and I will be teaching what the auditor’s opinion means and what auditors do to arrive at their opinion. They must be registered with the PCAOB.

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Going Concern

APRIL 12, 2022

After PM was ranked 91st out of 100 in last year’s BCTWF , we thought the firm was in danger of not making Fortune ’s 2022 list. But the 13th-largest public accounting firm in the US came back strong this year, vaulting up to No. Number of job openings: 631 (as of March 2022). 2020 : 21st. 2019: 21st.

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Going Concern

MAY 31, 2024

a certified public accounting company, wrote that the company reached the decision reluctantly and after substantial deliberation. In the letter, Engagement Principal for the Firm Mary Sahady wrote that the city has only provided 43 of the 110 total funds in the fiscal year June 30 2022 audit.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The study, an annual benchmark that now includes 2022 data, also found the use of varying sustainability standards and frameworks continues to make it difficult for investors, lenders, and other stakeholders to find consistent and comparable sustainability information. accounting firms performing this work.”

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Going Concern

MARCH 23, 2022

But here’s some good news associated with the Andersen name: audit partners who worked at Arthur Andersen during its collapse and who currently work in the Big 4 provide higher-quality audits than audit partners at other public accounting firms who weren’t at Andersen during the Enron scandal, according to a new study.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Partners at Deloitte in the UK and Switzerland will receive an average income of more than £1m each for the second year in a row, after the accountancy firm enjoyed another successful year. Ernst & Young Wants to Be ‘The Best on Earth at Ethereum’ Says Firm’s Blockchain Lead [ Decrypt ]. Firm Watch.

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Top 30 accounting firm Sikich said on Thursday it has agreed to acquire the federal government practice of top 10 accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA), a move that will expand the Naperville, IL-based firm’s presence in the Washington, D.C. office after the transaction closes on Dec.

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Going Concern

APRIL 12, 2023

KPMG audited the bank for nearly 30 years. As you may recall, KPMG issued an unqualified audit opinion two weeks before SVB went down in flames. As a publicly traded company, SVB would be required to provide a 10-Q, which is an unaudited and condensed version of a 10-K, which are audited financial statements.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

At the meeting, the Board will consider issuing for public comment a proposal to amend PCAOB Rule 3502, Responsibility Not to Knowingly or Recklessly Contribute to Violations. A number of accounting firms,1 public companies, professional membership associations and other key stakeholders raised concerns.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 28, 2024

Donald Scholl, who provided management consulting and training services to hundreds of public accounting firms during the course of his more than 40-year career and created many development programs for CPAs, including the popular Management for Results, has passed away. Peg passed away in November 2022 at the age of 83.

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Going Concern

MARCH 22, 2024

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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Going Concern

MAY 12, 2023

UK accounting sector needs to put more emphasis on its people [ AccountancyAge ] Across the UK, increasing turnover rates have been observed across barrios sectors. The accountancy sector is no exception. The decrease is minimal, but firms cannot afford to be losing additional staff while applicants for new positions are down.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2023

TowerBrook and Eisner plan to continue acquiring regional accounting firms or partnerships. The strategic acquisition also encompasses Mueller dotKonnect, a business process outsourcing firm specializing in finance, accounting, tax and payroll functions. It also marks the firm’s fifth office location in the South.

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Going Concern

MAY 13, 2024

Sabrina Sanders, AT&T’s chief accounting officer, is targeting graduate students for the company’s two-year-old, in-house training program. The bulk of the work on the behavioral health contract, which was signed in June 2022, went to “business analysts” earning $280 per hour. EY Canada has named a new Chair and CEO.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 16, 2024

Project Everest head cheerleader Andy Baldwin had some things to say at Davos : Breaking up EY into separate consulting and auditing companies would have increased growth potential as the company grapples with the need for capital to invest in technology and AI to stay competitive, EY’s global managing partner Andy Baldwin said on Tuesday.

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