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Accountants Behaving Badly: Egg Accountant Finally Cracked, and Lots of Embezzlement

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listed Chinese biotechnology company to carry out a “brazen” $400 million accounting fraud. Ex-Hillandale Farms accountant admits to $6.8 Weston, a former accountant at Hillandale Farms, engaged in the scheme with his late secretary and bookkeeper — known in court records only as VP — to steal $6.8 and became a federal felon.

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AICPA Recognizes Top 2022 CPA Exam Performers with Elijah Watt Sells Award

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Victoria Saravia Bazoberry (New York), a graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Business Administration in accountancy, is employed with KPMG LLP in New York, NY. Sells, one of the first CPAs in the U.S.,

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How to Find a Qualified Tax Preparer In Your Geographic Area

Nancy McClelland, LLC

As you might imagine, we get quite a few inquiries for tax preparation services, but a) we only do taxes for our small business accounting & bookkeeping clients, and b) we only work with clients in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. It’s an arena rife with underrepresentation issues.).

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Profile: Julius, A South Korean Global Citizen

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He’s now a graduating high school senior and will embark on his college education at Indiana University in the fall. Julius presumes his parents will stay in New Jersey while he attends school in Indiana, but he doesn’t know for sure. What he does know is that he wants to focus his collegiate studies on business.

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College Accounting Programs Are Taxpayer-Funded Training Programs for the Big 4 and Other Such Muckraking

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These businesses have their financial advisory needs served by hundreds of thousands of small firm accountants and CPAs nationwide. Small business has unique needs for accounting services: primarily tax and advising, and secondarily day-to-day accounting needs to act as de-facto controllers and decision makers.

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AICPA News – June 2023

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AICPA & CIMA Now Offers New Learning Tools for Accounting Professionals The AICPA & CIMA recently announced the offering of anew online learning platform to help accounting and finance professionals improve and update their skills to take advantage of a digital accelerating business environment.