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Ensuring Climate ESG Auditing Excellence: How Your Trusted Accounting Partner Makes the Difference

Withum

Now, regulations, investors and other stakeholders want companies to prove their ESG and climate information is accurate and reliable through audits and assurance. This experience puts them at the top of most companies’ list when considering a firm to perform the third-party audit of their ESG and climate reporting.

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Private Equity 2023 Year-in-Review and 2024 Outlook: Clearer Skies Emerge for Private Equity Amidst Challenges

Cherry Bekaert

Megadeals Faced Enormous Hurdles Rising borrowing costs continued to impact private equity’s ability to finance large transactions. And while fund managers have been very creative in navigating the financing problem (in some cases financing deals with only equity), it has proven far more challenging when it comes deals above $1 billion.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Semper Fi-nancial; EY Gets a D in Auditing; Deepfake CFOs Are a Thing | 2.26.24

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Marine Corps passed a full financial audit for the first time, with the service announcing Friday its fiscal 2023 financial audit received an “unmodified audit opinion” after a rigorous two-year review. Some related to non-audit services (such as legal services) to the audit client. deficiencies).

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Friday Footnotes: EY Can’t Hire Tech; John Doe Sues the PCAOB; Auditors Can’t Find Torpedoes and Missiles | 1.20.03

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Practice Management How firms use stay interviews to boost retention [ Journal of Accountancy ] Job interviews have long been an essential part of the hiring process. But now, some public accounting firms are turning the lens on themselves.

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Friday Footnotes: ‘You Can’t Be Seen As the First Person to Leave’; How Firms of All Sizes Are Using AI | 10.6.23

Going Concern

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. At one point, Trump attorney Clifford Robert asked Bender to speak into the microphone and the accountant replied: “I am as close as I can be without kissing it.” Within weeks of Maximus’ Sept.

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Friday Footnotes: Firms Make Progress on Diversity; EY Growth Plan; PIZZA PARTY! | 3.8.22

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CPA firms show progress in diversity amid pipeline challenges [ Journal of Accountancy ] The AICPA finally got around to releasing their 2021 Trends report, which we’ll dissect shortly. in 2020) in the portion of new accounting graduate hires at CPA firms who are ethnically diverse. in 2018 to 34.7% in 2018 to 34.7% Tom Vilsack.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Isn’t Getting a Redemption; Just Say No to NOCLAR; Oh, Layoffs? | 3.15.24

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Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Accounting giant renews lease in downtown S.F. —

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