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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. In Australia, PwC has launched an energy transition team , enticing professionals away from several competitors.

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

Going Concern

NYT Magazine talks about Deloitte’s creepy monetization of the final frontier : Befouling the Final Frontier When its time comes, in 2030 — unlike Mir before it, which was de-orbited so it would burn up in the atmosphere — the I.S.S. We might dig deeper into that survey, we’ll see. will fall into the sea.

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

Going Concern

Haven’t they been saying for at least ten years now that 95% of accountants will be replaced by 2030? We’re still going to have debits and credits, financial statements, and audits. 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?

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

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The recently passed California climate disclosure rule, SB 253, will require companies to start limited assurance in 2026 and reasonable assurance in 2030 for Scope 1 and 2 emissions. Future-looking information: Financial statements usually just look at the previous fiscal years’ balance sheets.

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

CPA Practice

But staying on the topic of financial close, just recognize that I think you’ll have to figure out what is needed for you, we recognize the key benefits are automating the closed process, to get the statements out to consolidate data across multiple sources, and then analyzing that accounting data and generating the the key financial statements.

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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 UK has new rules about flying business class, says FT : PwC told senior UK staff in October that only people travelling on long-haul night flights or those flying for “business-critical” reasons would be allowed to sit in business class, people familiar with the matter told the Financial Times.

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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

It’s Joy Merriner’s job as an independent auditor with the firm BDO to go through the city’s financial statements and make sure they are fair and accurate. For at least one program, the city is at risk of running out the clock on its fourth extension with the state to close out its 2022 books.

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