Going Concern

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Local CPA weighs in on accountant shortage [ WMDT ] The Salisbury, MD news spoke to a UHY partner about the issue. CPA at UHY Group Mark Welsh tells 47ABC that recruiting slowing down has meant firms are turning to AI, Bots, and international workers to help fill demand, raising prices as much as ten percent for end-users.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Sadly, I had to argue with them over their own language in black and white on how… — Eric Pierre, CPA (@yourfavecpa) February 22, 2024 Deloitte’s Adam Powick wrestles with the complaints of former staff and directors about the pressure to perform in a gruelling corporate culture. in last 12 months.

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Going Concern

MAY 19, 2023

GC ] Benjamin Wann, CMA, CSCA, MBA, PMP, CPA wrote a little something about the thing we all love to hate. About 58% of companies allow employees to work a portion of their week from home, according to Scoop Technologies, a software firm that developed an index monitoring workplace strategies of close to 4,500 companies. or Singapore.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 27, 2023

Big 4 EY auditors escape potential Wirecard sanctions after leaving profession [ Financial Times ] Germany’s audit watchdog closed investigations against four current and former EY auditors involved in inspecting collapsed payments firm Wirecard after they handed back their professional licences and left the profession earlier this month.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 10, 2024

LeaseCrunch optimizes lease accounting processes for CPA firms by automating calculations and the required deliverables. The solution allows firms to streamline operations, save time, reduce errors, lower costs and simplify compliance with the new lease accounting standards. The transaction closed in the fourth quarter of 2023.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and CPA.com announced its 2023 Startup Accelerator cohort at a kick-off meeting held at AICPA headquarters in New York. Audit Sight – The company’s platform eliminates manual work for auditors, diligence and private equity providers by automating financial transaction verification.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Technologists Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley, CPA, discuss Audit Sight , a technology platform that eliminates manual work for auditors, diligence and private equity providers by automating financial transaction verification. Use the podcast player below to listen. But you know, where we’re gonna be in the audit territory today?

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Withum

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

While government organizations and labor unions historically understand the need for such safeguards, industries across private and public sectors should be careful to choose auditors and business partners that have a demonstrated ability to protect client information by undergoing SOC 2 examination.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The merger will become effective January 1, 2023, as teammates in the firm’s downtown office on Orange Avenue join their colleagues at the office the firm opened in Orlando’s Lee Vista office park in 2021. Britain’s biggest companies and their auditors are playing a £10bn game of musical chairs.

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CPA Practice

MAY 9, 2023

But employers — including CPA firms — shouldn’t assume they can breathe any easier when it comes to retaining in-demand talent. Hiring Survey suggest that skilled professionals are likely to find an abundance of job opportunities, given that many businesses are hiring both for new roles and vacated positions in the first half of 2023.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This is according to the Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS), which surveyed 449 employers and 433 accounting and finance employees last summer and released its results last month. In the past few decades, public accounting firms have implemented work-life balance practices as part of their attempts to curb excessive turnover.

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Technologists Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley, CPA, discuss TeamMate Document Linker for External Audit, a solution from Wolters Kluwer designed for CPAs, saving junior auditors time, strengthening audit quality, and improving auditor satisfaction. Use the podcast player below to listen.

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The 2023 H&R Block Featured Franchisees of the Year, Elite 25, and Top 100 include: Featured Franchisees of the Year Anthony Temple, Mich. Bennett is a Certified Fraud Examiner and a member of the American Bar Association Institute of Internal Auditors, Institute for Internal Controls and the Association for Corporate Growth.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 29, 2024

NYSSCPA CEO Calvin Harris, CPA said in a column for CPA Journal : But the winds of change have long been upon us. This is part of why New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s recent signing of “non-CPA ownership” into law is such a big deal. More on the New York non-CPA ownership bill. Let’s read a little bit.

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Going Concern

MARCH 1, 2024

For many 22- to 27-year-olds, known as Generation Z, their average student debt of more than $20,000 and the lure of higher-paying Wall Street and Silicon Valley firms means the time and effort required to become a CPA doesn’t pencil out. Audit Deficiencies by Accounting Giants Grew in Latest Inspections, U.S.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 17, 2024

An insightful takeaway from 2023 is that for CPA firms and entities handling the intricate world of ongoing lease accounting this becomes even more critical. The Importance of Automation ASC 842 and GASB 87/96 necessitate seamless collaboration across CPA firms and their clients.

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Going Concern

MARCH 15, 2024

Social compliance audits have become a multibillion-dollar global industry, as corporations hire firms—sometimes confidentially—to perform hundreds of thousands of workplace safety inspections each year and solve potential public relations issues when supply chain or labor matters surface. Seven percent are not sure. Education Sen.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 24, 2024

But for CPA firm leaders, it’s difficult to focus on the future when you’re dealing with a host of immediate business priorities. If your CPA firm is feeling the impacts of the talent shortage acutely, you’re in good company. This is also against the backdrop of tax season, one of the busiest times of the year.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 30, 2023

Deloitte & Touche LLP partners and staffers failed to make financial disclosures required to ensure the independence of their audit work, according to new details from the firm’s 2018 PCAOB inspection. I have had only one or two students interested in working for a CPA firm the last couple of years.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 21, 2023

AuditClub, a collaborative “Audit Service Center” for CPA firms and companies, has introduced AuditClub One, a in order to address the talent exodus and pipeline problems prevailing throughout the profession. Accountants are leaving corporations and audit firms in record numbers, as they reevaluate what they want from their careers.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

CPA Exam Friendly reminder, deadlines to apply for BEC before the new exam in 2024 are quickly approaching. CPA Exam Candidates: You Better Hurry Up and Apply For BEC Before It’s Gone Forever Also, WTF? CPA Exam Candidates: You Better Hurry Up and Apply For BEC Before It’s Gone Forever Also, WTF? Did Exam Costs go up?

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 9, 2023

AuditClub, the Audit Service Center for CPA firms and companies, has launched a new alliance model designed to connect tax and non-attest accountants with AuditClub One assurance professionals to improve service delivery options to clients. “In As a result, Lighthouse has become a one-stop shop for all accounting related services.”

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CPA Practice

JUNE 15, 2023

worker satisfaction since 1987, declares in its 2023 survey report that “U.S. CPA firms are among the employers that may want to be extra cautious about if and how they instruct their workers to return to the office. Your CPA firm probably experienced this to some degree. workers have never been more content.”

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Going Concern

JANUARY 5, 2024

Big 4 Big Four Reshape Consulting Workforce, Strategy With Rare Layoffs [ Bloomberg Tax ] The Big Four accounting firms have leaned into their tech advisory work and data analytics services—areas ripe for revenue growth—as interest rates and the artificial intelligence boom reshaped demand for consulting services. Happy trails, Tom!

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Ironically, Ergo’s auditor is Mazars, a big rival of Grant Thornton among the second tier of Irish accounting firms. Grant Thornton were auditors until McCann became Ergo’s chairman in 2015. When I went on the board here we had to resign as auditors.” The number of non-CPA professionals employed by the St.

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Going Concern

MAY 26, 2023

Audit Bitcoin Miner Riot Dumps Auditor for ‘Big Four’ Accounting Firm [ Blockworks ] Riot Platforms is looking to switch accounting firms as the landscape for crypto company auditors remains in flux. Deloitte is set to act as the mining company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2023.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 24, 2023

ITA is the highly-regarded international not-for-profit association of leading Consulting firms and VARs, CPA firms, and technology product/service providers. As a new ITA member, LeaseQuery will attend the ITA 2023 Spring Collaborative in Vancouver BC Canada April 23-25, 2023.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Big Four firms targeted a portion of their millions in Capitol Hill spending last year on a pivotal problem facing the industry: shoring up a dwindling supply of qualified accountants. million directly lobbying Congress in 2023, focusing on issues such as digital assets and immigration requirements. accounting software?

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Going Concern

MARCH 22, 2024

The decision was backed by a partner vote, following a first three years dominated by efforts to repair the firm’s reputation in the wake of a series of scandals. She made general manager at 29 with a CPA [ eFinancialCareers ] Many young professionals begin to eye managerial posts as they approach their 30s – but Shanny Lee (CPA, Aust.)

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Rules and Regs At September 19 Open Meeting, PCAOB to Consider Proposed Changes to Board Rule on Contributory Liability for Firm Violations [ PCAOB ] We’ll be sitting in on this and reporting back so you don’t have to. Comment letters raise serious questions about the consequences of the proposed changes.

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Going Concern

MARCH 10, 2023

And I oop– It’s true (Part II, Item 8 “Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm”). KPMG has served as SVB auditor since 1994. Check out the auditor. Have a screenshot instead and check out that upvote ratio (!) He has pledged not to raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000 annually.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 4, 2023

Practice How one small firm drastically cut its busy-season hours [ Journal of Accountancy podcast ] Johanna Sweaney Salt, CPA, CGMA, used to work 100 hours a week during busy season. Today, Johanna remains a full-time partner at the firm, and her son, Dalton Sweaney, CPA, is now the managing partner.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

More than 300,000 accountants and auditors in the United States have left their jobs in the past two years, according to a Wall Street Journal article citing federal data. The AICPA also notes that fewer accounting students are earning the CPA designation. The number of U.S. To turn things around, managers need to get creative.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 26, 2024

Long Read Corporate Self-Oversight [ The American Prospect ] Four auditing firms examine the books of nearly every big U.S. AI Is your firm keeping pace? How AI is transforming audit [ Thomson Reuters ] In the past, auditors have heavily relied on manual processes to uncover risks in financial statements and business operations.

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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% Meanwhile, 60% of firms surveyed reported that they expected to have the same or higher number of CPAs on staff in 2023 compared to 2022.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 7, 2023

More than 300,000 accountants and auditors in the United States have left their jobs in the past two years, according to a Wall Street Journal article citing federal data. The AICPA also notes that fewer accounting students are earning the CPA designation. The number of U.S. To turn things around, managers need to get creative.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

9 in 10 Accounting and Audit Firms Struggle to Find Talent [ CPA Practice Advisory ] Sensing a pattern here… What is the fastest-growing challenge facing accounting firms and internal audit departments today? More than 90% point to hiring and retaining skilled accountants and auditors. The non-U.S. respondents.

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