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

Going Concern

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

CPA Practice

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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AICPA News – June 2023

CPA Practice

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.

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The Case For Localizing Mom-And-Pop Investment

PYMNTS

One of the biggest challenges today, he noted, is raising awareness among small businesses that this is even an option for them. Last week, small business accounting company ScaleFactor released a new survey on how SMBs access capital.