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Audits Are a Joke and Here’s Why According to a Salty Old Industry Veteran

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Industry OG and commentator Gene Marks has written an opinion piece for The Hill about what audits actually are that is less opinion and more brutal fact: Why you should be very skeptical of that auditor’s report. So they might catch a fine from the audit regulators. The devil’s in the details, people. I dunno, you guys.

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Top Remote Accountants of the Week | May 16, 2024

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FTE Senior Accounting and Tax | Candidate ID #5311425 Certifications: CPA, QB ProAdvisor Education: BA Accounting, MS Accountancy Experience (years): 10+ years public accounting Work experience (detail): 2+ with national firm 10 years working with large C-Corp clients 5+ years with SMB and HNWIs tax prep and advisory 4 years with own practice with (..)

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Eff You, Pay Us; Let’s Complain About Auditing Again; RIP to a Real One | 8.14.23

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When you woke up this morning did you let out a big yawn and then ask yourself “how can audit firms respond to ongoing regulatory scrutiny?” PCAOB staff expects approximately 40% of the audits reviewed in 2022 will have one or more deficiencies, up from 34% in 2021 and 29% in 2020. The firm, BST & Co.,

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How Offshoring Has Moved Far Beyond Bookkeeping

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While technology is playing a much larger role in the day-to-day activities performed by accounting professionals, it can’t do everything. This is why many firms are increasingly turning to outsourced resources. Armanino, for example, turned to Scrubbed to help with audit engagements. “We Now we grown that number by five times.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Details on Grant Thornton’s PE Deal; What Is ‘Presented Fairly’ Anyway? | 5.13.24

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Sabrina Sanders, AT&T’s chief accounting officer, is targeting graduate students for the company’s two-year-old, in-house training program. She’s spent more than two decades at AT&T, steadily working her way up to the C-suite from a role as an accounting manager. Just want to add this screenshot. PCAOB Chair Erica Y.

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The Accounting Technology Lab Podcast – Review Of Datamatics – May 2024

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And they’ve been working with CPA and accounting firms for about 20 years, with about 1200 people focused in that area. So you know, with the 150 or so CPA firms that they’re already working with it, you get some things with this team that you might not get otherwise. Yeah, Brian F.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Missing KPMG Partner’s Vehicle Found; A Speaker Makes Deloitters Uncomfortable | 10.23.23

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Kelly and Marshall Goldsmith lie about why the best performers leave accounting firms in a Chief Executive article about the right way to lay people off : Go out of your way to communicate to your top performers that you value their work and want to keep them. Current article from Pasadena Now , September 27 SEC complaint.

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