ThomsonReuters

JANUARY 20, 2023

Firms are now turning to audit talent with new skillsets to help them navigate new challenges. New paths for audit talent It isn’t news that the rise of technology caused dramatic changes in the audit profession. More than ever before, today’s audit talent needs more than technical skills.

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CPA Practice

MAY 1, 2024

The Board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation ( FAF ) is seeking nominations for new members to join the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council ( FASAC ) for an initial one-year term beginning January 1, 2025. The FASAC is the primary advisory body to the Financial Accounting Standards Board ( FASB ).

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CPA Practice

MAY 14, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has overhauled its decades-old quality control requirements for audit firms by adopting a new standard on May 13 designed to put the onus squarely on auditors and executives. Firms themselves have also changed significantly, as has the role of firm networks.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The American Institute of CPAs has released a new practice aid to help accounting professionals create a system of quality management (QM) for their firm’s accounting and auditing practice. Establishing such a system is a requirement of new AICPA QM standards, and the effective date for compliance is December 15, 2025.

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Going Concern

MARCH 15, 2024

The whole point of hiring a big four audit firm such as PwC is to attach your financial results to a brand whose reputation is beyond question. Audit The auditor’s role in supply chain due diligence [ Compliance Week ] A recent New York Times report detailed alleged examples of migrant children working for U.S.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

EY fired auditor for not approving illegal transactions, says a new lawsuit [ Reuters ] Ernst & Young LLP has been sued by a former partner who says she was forced out of her job for refusing to sign off on client transactions that violated tax and securities laws. PwC HK, KPMG to host U.S. Accounting Firm M&A. from 2019 onwards.

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CPA Practice

MAY 25, 2023

AuditClub, the Audit Service Center and creator of the auditors-as-a-service model, has announced new solutions to help accounting firms succeed in navigating and implementing the AICPA’s new quality management standards. AuditClub Compass gives firms a road map for the journey to audit quality compliance with the new standards.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 25, 2022

The city of Palo Alto, CA is looking for a new city auditor after its last one, Kyle O’Rourke, resigned from his role at Baker Tilly on August 15. By a unanimous vote, the council agreed to ask Baker Tilly to make up to three individuals available for interviews to become the city’s interim city auditor.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has seen its first standard-setting project with Erica Williams at the helm through from start to finish, as the regulator last month approved an updated auditing standard on confirmations. Today, business is largely conducted online.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Talent The Race Is On to Hire Interns for 2025. PwC posted its summer 2025 internships for areas including tax and consulting in September, the earliest the firm has ever advertised internship positions, said Rod Adams, who leads hiring for the U.S. Burned Investors Ask ‘Where Were the Auditors?’ Love you, mean it. and Mexico.

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Withum

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The deadline to file 2020 claims is April 15, 2024, and the deadline to file 2021 claims is April 15, 2025. The IRS is on “high alert” with regard to specious ERC claims and it is aggressively auditing both new claims and claims that were already paid. In other words, playing the audit lottery is risky. Nothing, really.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

PwC is planning to give up tens of millions of dollars of consulting work for its US audit clients to reduce the risk of conflicts of interest, challenging its rival Big Four firms to follow suit. There was a perception that we do a lot of consulting work for our audit clients,” he said. “We We have no desire to be close to the line.”

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TaxConnex

MARCH 21, 2024

It did, but the South Carolina Department of Revenue later audited Amazon and found that it had failed to adequately tax sales by third-party merchants. Auditors slapped Amazon with some $12.5 million in taxes, penalties and interest for the first three months of 2016. Get in touch to learn more.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 22, 2023

A global accounting industry survey of more than 6,000 accountants and auditors conducted earlier this year revealed the No. Working closely with hundreds of accounting and auditing professionals globally, I’ve identified top five strategies that successful organizations apply to effectively do so. By David Osborne.

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Accounting Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The document aims to help auditors and accountants set up a quality management system at their firms ahead of a 2025 deadline.

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Going Concern

MARCH 22, 2024

Mr. Day has spent most of his 38-year accounting career at EY, which he initially joined in 1986 on the audit staff in St. “We enter our fiscal 2025 with many of the socio-economic issues we had in fiscal 2024: high inflation and interest rates, tightened lending, uncertainty in the real estate markets, global conflicts.”

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Going Concern

APRIL 19, 2024

Top Remote Accountants of the Week | April 18, 2024 Audit Audit Board Urged to Rein In Plan to Curb Misleading Marketing [ Bloomberg Tax ] CPAs pressed the US audit board to scale back a proposal meant to prevent firms from falsely marketing their registration with the regulator as an endorsement of their work.

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CPA Practice

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Thomson Reuters, a global content and technology company, has added several updates to its suite of tax, accounting and audit products, it announced at its annual customer event, SYNERGY. Automating tax and audit workflows “Tax industry professionals struggle with the increased pace of regulatory change and hiring challenges.

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Going Concern

MAY 26, 2023

Although the public health emergency is over, taxpayers can continue to apply for the tax credit until 2025. Under the revamp of the US firm’s leadership, John King, the head of EY’s US audit business and one of the major opponents of the spin-off, will be leaving the US executive committee, Boland told partners earlier this week.

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Going Concern

APRIL 1, 2024

Related to this I suppose, Alaska Public Media did a story on the city of Anchorage having some municipal audit problems : A long overdue financial audit of Anchorage’s bookkeeping may keep the city from getting tens of millions of dollars in grant money. This applies not just to audits but to other services as well.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 11, 2023

The deadlines for claiming the ERC for 2020 and 2021 are coming in April of 2024 and 2025 respectively. The agency is devoting additional resources to the problem, including hiring specially trained auditors to process ERC claims and ensure the claims are legitimate. The IRS has received more than 2.5

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Going Concern

APRIL 21, 2023

Professor Laura Empson of Bayes Business School retells how these audit firms were beguiled by the glamour and big fees of corporate advisory work. In 2020, KPMG announced plans to increase the overall representation of Black and Latinx employees by 50% in 2025. Performance-related separations (a.k.a. 2023 KPMG U.S. KPMG faces $1.4-billion

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Going Concern

AUGUST 4, 2023

Audit Fireside Chat with PCAOB Chair Erica Y. Trump-Tied SPAC Hits Another Snag as Auditor Abruptly Resigns [ Bloomberg ] Special-purpose acquisition company Digital World Acquisition Corp. said in a filing Tuesday that its auditor Marcum LLP — which has been riddled with regulatory problems of its own — abruptly resigned.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The new system, which will be called uFACTS, is expected to be fully operational in 2025 and cost an estimated $78 million over 10 years. We’re taking a look at that,” Ohio Auditor Keith Faber said. “I But the deployment was “inadequate” as it didn’t collect accurate data on PUA claims, according to state auditor Frank Mautino.

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