Going Concern

JUNE 1, 2022

When I started in public accounting, one of the audit partner s I worked with shared the elevator metaphor: working in public accounting is like riding an elevator—the longer you stay on, the higher up you will go. Think about auditing. Audit partner s ? When should you leave? A bsolutely. Same thing.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In its 2023 salary guide , Hays provides salary ranges for accounting and finance jobs in nine states, plus the District of Columbia. For this article, we selected four positions in audit and four in tax. For example: Audit associates in Colorado are expected to see a raise of between 7.1% Audit senior. Audit manager.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Public accounting firms in the United States reported strong top-line and bottom-line growth in their latest fiscal year results, driven by high demand for their services, according to a survey by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. That rate eclipses the 4.2%

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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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Cherry Bekaert

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) recently released its Fiscal Year 2022 Report to Congress. Contact Us The post Insights Into DCAA’s Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2022 appeared first on Cherry Bekaert. By law, the DCAA is required to submit an annual report detailing the DCAA’s activities for the previous year.

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Going Concern

MAY 26, 2023

EY US reshuffles leadership following failure of spin-off plan [ Financial Times ] EY’s US chair Julie Boland has reshuffled the firm’s leadership, elevating loyalists after winning a power struggle with the Big Four accounting firm’s global bosses that scuppered a plan to spin off its consulting arm. million over a decade.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Increases in public accounting starting salaries for next year aren ’t expected to even hit 6% , we reported a couple days ago after examining salary data from Robert Half’s 2022 and its newly released 2023 Accounting & Finance Salary Guides. Senior manager/managing director, audit and assurance services.

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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. What are the core objectives of QC 1000?

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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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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 deficiencies in 100% (four of four) of the audit engagements reviewed at KPMG Huazhen and 75% (three of four) of the audit engagements reviewed for PwC Hong Kong.

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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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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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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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Going Concern

AUGUST 18, 2022

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 RSM will remain the fifth largest accounting firm in the U.S.

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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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Anders CPA

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Anders is proud to announce that Lesley Sanchez, CPA , Audit and Assurance partner, has been named a 2023 MOCPA Woman to Watch. About Lesley Sanchez In 2022, Lesley made firm history as the youngest woman to be named a partner at Anders. Louis Business Journal Women’s Conference – The Series: Lessons in Leadership.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The 2023 AICPA Trends in the Supply of Accounting Graduates and the Demand for Public Accounting Recruits report (short: Trends report) was released last week and spoiler alert, it’s dark. Says the AICPA, bachelor’s degree completions in accounting dropped 7.8% 65,035 total accounting degrees completed for 2021-22.

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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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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They also increased headcounts across the board, bolstering staff numbers who were billed out to clients but not partners by about 26 per cent collectively, according to The Australian Financial Review Top 100 Accounting Firms list for 2022. Audit Fees Rise Only 2.5%, But Audits Require Greater Effort [ CFO ].

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CPA Practice

APRIL 4, 2023

AuditDashboard , a client collaboration platform for accounting professionals and their clients, has completed its 7 th SOC 2 Type 2 audit for the period of review from February 2022 to January 2023, as it continues expanding its global reach and offering for enterprise customers.

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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

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

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. The SEC order was issued on June 8, 2022, CohnReznick did not file a Form 3 until December 12, 2022.

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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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CPA Practice

APRIL 12, 2023

According to the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, the number of U.S. students completing bachelor’s degrees in accounting declined from 57,500 in 2012 to 52,500 in 2020, a decrease of nearly 9%. Many courses taken to fulfill the requirement do not directly pertain to accounting or auditing.

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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. 2018: 20th.

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Going Concern

MAY 13, 2024

Deloitte inserts itself into some Oregon political drama, an extensive Willamette Week report : State Invoices Show Oregon’s Favorite Fixer Playing a Key Role in Mopping Up Measure 110 In 2022, Oregon state officials faced a growing mess. EY Canada has named a new Chair and CEO.

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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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Withum

APRIL 22, 2022

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (“ACFE”) 2022 Report to the Nations estimates that the average organization loses 5% of its annual revenue to fraud each year, causing a median loss of $117,000 before being detected. 1] Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Occupational Fraud 2022: A Report to the Nations page 9. [2]

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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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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Some 47,067 students earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting in the 2021-22 school year, down 7.8% from the previous year, according to 2023 Trends: A Report on Accounting Education, the CPA Exam and Public Accounting Firms’ Hiring of Recent Graduates. and 8.4%, respectively.

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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

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 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

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. The administration did not present a budget for Internal Audit during the hearings. Following is a summary of the key areas of comment.

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Going Concern

JUNE 3, 2022

The Financial Accounting Standards Board adopted CECL in 2016, prompted by criticism that banks had booked losses too slowly in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. Life at Deloitte US (@lifeatdeloitte) June 1, 2022. EY US (@EY_US) June 1, 2022. KPMG US (@KPMG_US) June 1, 2022. PwC US (@PwCUS) June 2, 2022.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Equity partners do not receive a salary but instead receive a share of profits as income, with 672 of them sharing £711m in profits in the 2022 financial year. PCAOB seeks comments on interim attestation standards [ Journal of Accountancy ]. Seven things you (probably) don’t know about internal auditing [ Accountants Daily ].

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