CPA Practice

JANUARY 12, 2024

Grant Thornton LLP, one of America’s largest audit, tax and advisory firms, has released its fifth annual Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report , which highlights the firm’s progress toward achieving key milestones in its sustainability goals and diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) aspirations.

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accounting standards audit Government Tax 52

Withum

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

billion by 2025, and then to almost $4 billion by 2030. The clear excitement of investors presents new challenges and opportunities for accounting and consulting services to tackle a multitude of issues surrounding the industry, from controls surrounding tournament integrity to wealth management services for prosperous athletes.

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Entertainment Gaming Sports audit 72

Going Concern

MAY 24, 2023

and we’ve been hearing for at least as long as this website has been alive that AI will all but eliminate accountants. No doubt, as time goes on, AI will get better and more positions may be replaced by AI but do you, the accountant, have to worry about your job? That’s perfectly natural, especially in high-strung accountants.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

In a 2017 report from job hunting site Indeed , researchers found that “small business accountant” was nowhere to be found in the top-10 job positions sought after by most small business employers. “Bookkeeping is the low-value work performed by accounting firms,” he said.

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Cherry Bekaert

APRIL 9, 2024

Globally, the near-term goal is to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5 There are tangible business benefits to measuring and reporting emissions,” says Gabriela Payne, Senior Manager, Risk & Accounting Advisory Services. In fact, most nations in the developed world, including the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

With the Sustainability Cloud, though, there can now be a greater accountability in terms of “peer benchmarking, anonymized data to track progress, communities to share best practices, and ways to input supply chain information,” Flynn said. It also intends to operate on 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2030.

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Going Concern

APRIL 1, 2024

Business Insider wrote about the accountant shortage, specifically Tupperware griping in regulatory filings that it can’t find enough people (again): The accountant shortage is so bad that companies are delaying filing key mandatory reports. A lot of this work that we’re doing is, I’d call it forensic accounting,” Cipriano said.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

So these tools often have individual progress and deadlines for each period that they assign out to the accounting team. And it turns out a lot of accounting software platforms just don’t do a very good job of tracking that internally. But the fact of matter is almost all accounting software really didn’t have clothes in it today.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 11, 2023

PwC has pledged to cut emissions from its operations to net zero by 2030. Business travel remains PwC UK’s single-largest source of carbon pollution, with flying accounting for more than two-thirds of the firm’s emissions in 2022. The impact of the audit mandates on the average wage within the audit occupation, however, is negative.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Technologists Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley, CPA, discuss the latest trends in practice management for accounting firms. Mark Edmondson from inflow, wrote a great white paper on the audit technology ecosystem, and even if you don’t do audits, I want you to go download it, okay? Now in the accounting software world.

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MineralTree

DECEMBER 29, 2022

According to Finance 2030, finance leaders are spending up to 19% more time on value-added activities than they did 10 years ago. It should then come as no surprise that automating accounts payable processes is an important part of financial digital transformation. Simplify Audits. The Ability to Be More Strategic.

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