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South Carolina’s Top Accountant to Step Down After $3.5 Billion Error

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By Joseph Bustos, The State (TNS) South Carolina’s top accountant Richard Eckstrom says he will resign effective April 30 after disclosing to state lawmakers that he inflated the state’s cash balances for a decade, eventually reaching about $3.5 Larry Grooms, who led a Senate Finance Committee panel that investigated the $3.5

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big 4 Consulting Salaries; Accounting For Dummies; PwC Boomerangs | 3.27.23

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South Carolina’s comptroller quits after a $3.5 billion accounting error Alright, here are some other headlines for ya. The world’s largest accounting and professional services firms in terms of revenue and workforce, these prestigious firms are renowned for offering high salaries with a generous bonus structure.

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Accounting Top 100 Social Media Leaderboard – March 15, 2023

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In 2018 Avalara launched our Accounting Top 100 Social Media Leaderboard. Our goal was to create a community of accounting professionals on Twitter to enable networking though engaging conversations and friendly competition. A seasoned Quickbooks Pro Advisor, she has built solid relationships within the Intuit Accountants community.

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Friday Footnotes: CPA Exam Scares Accounting Majors Away; EY Loses Fees in China | 5.12.23

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Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. Working in the Big Four seems to be more limited to just like, CFO or chief finance type roles.” The accountancy sector is no exception. Investment banking was more versatile, he said.

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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., was active in the establishment of the AICPA and played a key role in advancing education within the profession.

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AICPA News – Nov. 2023

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AICPA News is a round-up of recent announcements from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The program allows UMCS students to kickstart their careers by developing their accounting, finance, and business skills and earning prestigious professional qualifications alongside their university studies.

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150 Hour Rule: Let’s Keep Arguing About What Color the Drapes Should Be While the House is Burning Down

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Amanda Iacone at Bloomberg Tax has written the accounting niche’s 1,735th article about the accountant shortage and this time, as is often the case, the focus is 150 hours. Apparently South Carolina has joined them. Wages rose quickly in the last two years, although growth has slowed this year, Britton said.