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

Withum

Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) are the trusted providers of most companies for financial auditing and have been supporting the assurance of non-financial ESG and climate information for decades. Firstly, auditing has always been one of the cornerstone services of accounting firms.

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

Cherry Bekaert

Compliance requirements for SB 253 are as follows: Beginning in 2026 (for reporting year 2025), reporting entities are required to annually report their Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions. Since TowerBrook’s investment into EisnerAmper, the first in the public accounting sector, other private equity firms have followed suit.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Accounting Firms Ditch Zoom Interviews; Mississippi’s Best CPA Exam Candidates | 8.28.23

Going Concern

My return, by the way, was sent electronically on April 3, the same day my cpa firm sent my federal income tax return in electronically. My federal refund was deposited in my bank account three weeks later, on April 27th. Dead silence. Then he answered, “ We’re understaffed and we had a lot of income tax returns last year.”

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

Going Concern

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%

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

Going Concern

. — but for less than three years [ San Francisco Chronicle ] Accounting giant KPMG has renewed its lease at its longtime San Francisco office building after considering other locations. through September 2026, a spokesperson confirmed. This legislation is supported by State Auditor Julie Blaha and the Minnesota Society of CPAs.

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