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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The Diversity-est Big 4 Firm; An EY Record; PCAOB Stream | 10.17.22

Going Concern

32 leading industry commentators, CEOs, CFOs and board members from across the world have contributed their views on the future of financial services for KPMG’s Voices on 2030: Financial Services reinvented report. The Malawi Accountant General’s office suddenly has at least 17 job vacancies. That’s it.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Consulting Pay Freezes; AI, Audit, and You; KPMG Mega Merger? | 11.6.23

Going Concern

public-sector consulting business of Big Four accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers for an undisclosed price and rebranded it as Guidehouse. The proposal comes as the Big Four accounting firm continues to work to untangle the mess left by its decision in April to scrap plans to split auditing and consulting into two different firms.

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

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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. Future-looking information: Financial statements usually just look at the previous fiscal years’ balance sheets.

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ChatGPT Can Pass the CPA Exam But Here’s What It Can’t Do (Yet)

Going Concern

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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The Technology Lab Podcast – Rapid Close Tools – Sept. 2023

CPA Practice

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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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Every Day Is Fools’ Day For Some Accounting Employers; McKinsey Now Paying People to Leave | 4.1.24

Going Concern

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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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Pissed Off Wipfli Employee Got the Office Shut Down; New PwC Flight Rules | 12.11.23

Going Concern

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. I think we’re losing our way,” he said on the latest Accountants Daily podcast.

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