Going Concern

MAY 12, 2023

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. He will be starting as an investment-banking analyst for the technology, media and communications team in New York City at Lincoln International this summer.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Talent As tax season approaches, accounting firms are short on staff [ Marketplace ] Oh hey! How can employers optimise working environments to support the needs of their accountancy teams and ultimately retain them, all while adding value to their organisation? The stablecoin firm released BDO’s assurance opinion on Feb.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Here we are again talking about the accountant shortage. Mark Maurer at Wall Street Journal wrote today about a young man named Omer Khokhar who realized after six years in accounting that he was done. The article title: “Job Security Isn’t Enough to Keep Many Accountants From Quitting.” ” Ruh-oh.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. The Monday Morning News Brief will be published Tuesday. The Monday Morning News Brief will be published Tuesday. Is your firm hiring? Not finding the talent you need?

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Sierra, a 23-year-old associate in New York is feeling “horrible” pressure to perform so she is not laid off. This next wave of hiring will help the IRS add key talent like tax accountants to help reverse a decade-long decline of audits for the wealthy as well as complex partnerships and corporations.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Big 4 EY considers handing retired US partners cut of proceeds from spin-off [ Financial Times ] EY has told retired US partners it is considering giving them a cut of the proceeds from a spin-off of its consulting arm, after complaints that the firm’s leadership is cashing in on a business built by previous generations. Ha ha,” he chuckles.

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Going Concern

APRIL 21, 2023

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. But that might be the least of it: The outlook for EY’s business of charging for advice and accounting is getting weaker in the U.S. A failed breakup attempt cost the company $600 million.

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Going Concern

MARCH 11, 2022

tax authority into historic audit failures by the “Big Four” firms, and discusses the prospects for success of proposed major reforms to the audit regime. The Top 100 Firms and Regional Leaders [ Accounting Today ] AT’s annual dick measuring contest is here! LaGuardia Community College Accounting Prof.

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Going Concern

JULY 10, 2023

New to Crain’s top 25 is New York-based KPMG. The audit, tax and advisory services firm reported a 6.4% Other leading accounting firms such as New York-based Deloitte and Ernst & Young also reported upticks in their Chicago headcounts. I am proud to call them my partners.” Guess what?

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

note: if you like accounting news, which you clearly do because you are reading this, we encourage you to sign up for our newsletter for even more accounting news. There’s definitely an accountant shortage out there’: MBAs have become the go-to degree and companies are struggling to hire enough CPAs [ Fortune ].

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Footnotes is a weekly wrap-up of all the news in and around the accounting profession, published every Friday at 5 p.m. I guess it was a big leap going from balloon animals into accountancy, said 51-year-old Stapleton. Hungary picks PwC partner to lead new anti-graft body overseeing EU funds [ Reuters ].

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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2022

The hardworking human beings at Audit Analytics have released their analysis of initial public offering trends and IPO auditor market share for the first quarter of this year , a period in which the number of companies going public was minuscule compared to Q1 of 2021. However, after a merger, SPACs are very likely to change their audit firm.

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Going Concern

MAY 15, 2023

But a declining CPA pipeline has accountants asking: Is the 150 now a barrier to becoming a CPA? Armanino is named in an FTX lawsui t: The latest suit was filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco against Sequoia Capital Operations, LLC, the prominent Menlo Park firm known for early backing of Apple, Inc. of New York.

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Going Concern

MARCH 11, 2024

We’ll be doing an article shortly, in the meantime here are some quotes from INSIDE Public Accounting : Bob Cedergren, MNCPA board chair added, “I can tell you from my own experience, through conversations with colleagues throughout the country and the members of the MNCPA, that we have a significant shortage of CPAs.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 18, 2023

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Law & Order ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ financier accuses Disney of self-dealing in new lawsuit [ Los Angeles Times ] Walt Disney Co. is facing labor agitation on two fronts.

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Going Concern

APRIL 6, 2022

With the ongoing Great Resignation across all industries and the critical pipeline problem contributing to a shortage of accountants , the profession is in a bit of trouble. We’ll update it should we have more information, and keep an eye out for 2022 Big 4 compensation data as the new numbers roll out later this year. Manager: 2%.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. It also signals that most partners don’t want a top executive to shake up the firm.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 22, 2024

They made the intermediate accounting curriculum harder than it needed to be and used junior professors who weren't as experienced to make the class even harder. Paul-based Anton Group comes at a critical time for charter schools, which are contending with a shortage of firms capable of navigating their complex finances.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This event did not come about because China suddenly warmed to the PCAOB, rather Congress urged their cooperation along with the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act of 2020, threatening delisting from American exchanges if they did not comply.

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Going Concern

MARCH 22, 2024

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Mr. Day will begin his new duties at the FASB this July. Louis, Missouri.

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Going Concern

JULY 1, 2022

Accountants are voted the best kissers in Britain ahead of doctors and nurses while civil servants, bankers and lawyers are rated as the worst [ Daily Mail ] Often ridiculed as boring beancounters, accountants have surprisingly been voted the best kissers – ahead of doctors, nurses and engineers. Enjoy the holiday weekend maybe? .”

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Partners at Deloitte in the UK and Switzerland will receive an average income of more than £1m each for the second year in a row, after the accountancy firm enjoyed another successful year. KPMG junior in Carillion forgery case should have questioned orders, tribunal says [ Financial News ]. Firm Watch.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

As leader of the Division of Finance, Miller oversees the university’s accounting and financial reporting, procurement and surplus property, budget and financial planning, capital budgeting, financial management, debt and cash management, financial information technology, risk management, and university bursar functions.

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Going Concern

JULY 28, 2023

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. News Obituary of Jerome A. According to his family, he originally had planned to become a chemical engineer but changed to accounting because of ongoing prejudice against Jews.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In an article for CoinDesk , Francine McKenna took a crack at why the FTX debacle happened, and like she always does when there ’s really bad accounting at a company going through a financial crisis, who are/were the auditors: It’s not clear why FTX commissioned two different audit firms to audit its 2020 and 2021 financial statements.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Cheaters What went wrong at PwC Canada: Accounting firm agrees to pay $1.45-million

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

BDO USA was fined $2 million and two of the firm’s partners were fined a total of $60,000 by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) for failures in connection with the 2017 audit of AAC Holdings, which through its subsidiaries provides inpatient substance abuse treatment services, the audit regulator said on Tuesday.

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Going Concern

MARCH 4, 2022

Pandemic has exacerbated tax-season anxiety, accountant says [ Global News ] No s**t? Meanwhile on Twitter, our friend Sam Antar is still roasting the KPMG auditors (well, technically Peat Marwick) who let the Crazy Eddie fraud slip through their horny little fingers: Two hookers and an auditor.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has reportedly sent a letter to KPMG, Wells Fargo’s auditor, questioning why the accounting firm did not catch the fake accounts that resulted in $185 million in fines for Wells Fargo. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Edward Markey (D-MA), New York Post reported. “We

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Going Concern

JANUARY 6, 2023

So customers have filed more than a half-dozen proposed class actions against the NFL’s Tom Brady, accounting firm Prager Metis and Bankman-Fried as an individual, among others. 2024 CPA Exam Blueprints released [ Journal of Accountancy ]. Employers added 223K jobs in December, but cut 1,100 in accounting [ Accounting Today ].

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and CPA.com announced its 2023 Startup Accelerator cohort at a kick-off meeting held at AICPA headquarters in New York. This year’s participants include five early-stage companies pursuing a variety of solutions in audit, accounting, tax and e-commerce.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Wirecard AG, the German payments company fighting for survival, has hired a forensic team to investigate the accounting scandal that led to its insolvency, sources told Reuters.

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Going Concern

JUNE 23, 2023

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Talent How Can the Accounting Profession Attract a Diverse Generation Z? [ Attracting and retaining these diverse young workers thus represents the next great challenge for firms.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 20, 2023

Practice Management How firms use stay interviews to boost retention [ Journal of Accountancy ] Job interviews have long been an essential part of the hiring process. But now, some public accounting firms are turning the lens on themselves.

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Going Concern

MARCH 8, 2024

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. District Court for the Southern District of New York said.

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Going Concern

APRIL 22, 2024

To top it all, Stuart Gregory, a rising star in the UK firm, just warned the remaining partners that profits could fall by as much as 15 per cent this year. Thomson Reuters writes about the National Pipeline Advisory Group (NPAG), one of the AICPA’s multi-faceted initiatives to address the accounting talent crisis.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

EY fired auditor for not approving illegal transactions, says a new lawsuit [ Reuters ] Ernst & Young LLP has been sued by a former partner who says she was forced out of her job for refusing to sign off on client transactions that violated tax and securities laws. Accounting Firm M&A. PwC HK, KPMG to host U.S.

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