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New Tech for Accounting Firms Get Spotlight at 2024 Conferences

CPA Practice

We’ll see applicable AI in Tax, Audit, and Client Accounting Services this year and next. Quantum computing – The new generation of computing is anticipated to arrive by 2030. Automation and AI are different, as noted in the table below. Over 20 companies are developing and delivering products in this category today.

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

Going Concern

The tax and audit practice, through affiliate BSR & Co, will be excluded from the merged entity and could be made into a separate entity, though that is still under discussion, the people said requesting anonymity. In 2018, Veritas Capital, which invests in businesses at the intersection of government and technology, acquired the U.S.

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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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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big 4 Better Be Ready to Get Regulated Hard; A Firm Playing Hot Potato With a Data Breach | 5.6.24

Going Concern

Borgers with deliberate and systemic failures to comply with Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) standards in its audits and reviews incorporated in more than 1,500 SEC filings from January 2021 through June 2023. Last weekend’s weekend discussion: It’s Mental Health Awareness Month. We’re aware.

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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

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. who founded and runs the accounting technology community Realize.

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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. Navarro-Velez joined the department at UNLV in 2019. Scroll down to point three.

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Technology: Spring Budget 2024 Predictions & Wishlist

Menzies

Menzies LLP - A leading chartered accountancy firm. Scale up superpower The government intends to make the UK a science and technology superpower by 2030 and this year the focus is on scale ups.