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Justice Department Continues Efforts to Stop Fraudulent Tax Preparers

CPA Practice

Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. “As As the Tax Division’s work over the past year demonstrates, our prosecutors have the expertise and resources to identify crooked return preparers and hold them accountable for their criminal conduct.” The Tax Division works with U.S.

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Friday Footnotes: Work-Life Balance, Does It Work?; Big 4 Firms Slash Job Postings; She Doesn’t Even Go Here! | 2.16.24

Going Concern

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. public accounting firms, however, turnover has continued to increase.

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Friday Footnotes: Big 4 Culture Gets Slammed Again; Audit Leads the Way in AI; Small Firm Gripes | 11.10.23

Going Concern

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Now’s the time so check out Accountingfly’s top remote accounting candidates of the week. Note: We’re skipping Footnotes next Friday to unveil a surprise.

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Friday Footnotes: Opinions!; EY’s Blockchain Aspirations; KPMG Junior Reprimanded | 9.30.22

Going Concern

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. Years-long trend of consolidation reaches city’s largest accounting firms [ Crain’s New York Business — subscription ]. Firm Watch.

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Evaluating Your Firm’s Advisory Stance

ThomsonReuters

Many firms are coming to the realization that they need to be offering more than only audit and compliance-based services due to excessive competition and commoditization. Offering advisory services is an excellent way to engage your clients and offer them a more complete financial service experience.

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Is Twice as Bad as Other Firms; Upskill or Die; Hella M&A | 10.21.22

Going Concern

KPMG flunks US overseas audit inspections twice as often as rivals [ Financial Times ] US regulators were twice as likely to find flaws in audits conducted by the overseas affiliates of KPMG than those of any other Big Four accounting firm, an analysis of inspection data shows. Accounting Firm Mergers. UHY Acquires Michigan Firm.

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