PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

As Travelex works to regain control of its systems, restore operations and mitigate any future fallout from the incident, the cyberattack is yet another reminder that one company’s cyber vulnerabilities can have far-reaching effects throughout the B2B supply chain. Reports said the former finance director allegedly stole $1.5

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 19, 2023

AuditBoard , a provider of cloud-based platform transforming audit, risk, compliance, and ESG management has added new capabilities purpose-built to enable teams to automate critical workflows, surface key strategic insights, and stay on top of proliferating risks.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Today in B2B payments, accounts payable automation firm CPS finds a buyer. Plus, a new FinTech, OpenEnvoy, launches to combat B2B payments fraud, while PCMI collaborates on B2B payments automation, and OpenPayd launches an FX-as-a-Service solution. REPAY Inks Deal For B2B AP Automation Firm CPS. 27) announcement.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 30, 2023

AuditBoard , a provider of cloud-based platform transforming audit, risk, compliance, and ESG management has added new capabilities purpose-built to enable teams to automate critical workflows, surface key strategic insights, and stay on top of proliferating risks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Today In B2B payments, NeweggBusiness integrates business financing and payment terms via Behalf, while Deutsche Bank expands its cash management offering into Australia. Plus, GE shutters its staff audit program, and Park Place Payments partners up for small business B2B payments. GE To End Rotational Staff Audit Program.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

The Big Four accounting firms will have to put their United Kingdom auditing and consulting practices in separate business units by 2024, but may keep them within the same parent companies, under regulations announced today by the Financial Reporting Council. The measures by the U.K.’s

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 1, 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. How Is Deloitte Making Accounting Accessible To Diverse Young Talent? Only 10.8%

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

Usually, the auditing workflow involves looking at expense reports filed by employees, with a focus on identifying potentially erroneous or even fraudulent transactions. Digitizing and centralizing spend across various departments and workflows is the first step to enhancing the auditing process, said McCrossan.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2020

s audit regulator, announced plans this week to break up the dominance of the largest four accounting firms, Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC , according to the Financial Times. The plans, if put forth, would constitute a huge shake-up for the accounting industry in the U.K., The Financial Reporting Council (FRC), the U.K.’s

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2020

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted last week to ease audit requirements for some small, publicly traded companies, the agency said in a statement Friday (March 13). The only dissenting vote was from Allison Lee.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2018

Forty percent of audits inspected by the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators (IFIAR) included serious problems, according to news from The Financial Times on Monday (March 12). The IFIAR found accounting lapses in about 40 percent of the 918 audits of public companies inspected in 2017. In the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

The former chair of the London Stock Exchange is calling for a thorough overhaul of audit standards in the wake of the $2.1 Auditors should be required “to find fraud rather than stumble over it,” Donald Brydon , appointed last year to overhaul audit standards in the United Kingdom, told the Financial Times.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

Firms auditing expenses through manual processes and outdated technologies risk missing the chance to flag erroneous or fraudulent submissions from vendors and employees. Deploying technology — especially artificial intelligence (AI) — can streamline the auditing process and boost cost savings significantly.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2020

Accounts receivable (AR) platform SurePayd is responding to the coronavirus pandemic by reducing the costs for its remote migration audit services for the next two months for companies that need to go on the cloud during the crisis, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Today in B2B payments, Revolut launches a new solution for its business customers, and MonetaGo collaborates to combat trade finance fraud. Plus, Pioneer Bank sues over MyPayrollHR scandal, Procurement Partners secures new funding, and ImagineTime partners on FinTech for accountants. Serent Capital Invests In Procurement Partners.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

This week, the largest funding round went to a B2B startup developing autonomous trucking technology to boost fleet efficiency, with other rounds landing at small business bookkeeping, workforce communications, and IBAN fraud mitigation startups for a combined $236 million-plus landing at B2B startups.

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CPA Practice

MAY 18, 2023

CTCs enhance compliance, reduce fraud, and stream tax collection for business-to-government (B2G) and business-to-business (B2B) transactions. In 2024, France is introducing mandatory e-invoicing for B2B transactions. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that there is an accountant shortage that is only expected to grow.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

With the new platform, cargo providers will have access to more convenient payment options like direct ACH debits, prefunded accounts or credit card payments, and will be able to deliver speedier payments and worry less about risk due to the more secure system, the press release says.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Parliament will commence an inquiry into the nation’s corporate auditing market, which is currently dominated by the Big Four accounting firms Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG, adding new pressure on an industry already being probed by other policymakers. Reports in Reuters on Sunday (November 11) said the U.K.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

There are some B2B FinTech segments that are mainstays with investors. Companies like alternative small business (SMB) lenders or accounting solutions providers, for instance, remain popular investment targets. This week, though, investors revealed their appetite for B2B FinTech firms that can multitask.

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CPA Practice

MAY 12, 2023

accounting profession is facing a much-discussed conundrum. Approximately 300,000 professionals left public accounting in 2021 and 2022 and fewer college students are choosing to pursue accounting as a career. Armanino, for example, turned to Scrubbed to help with audit engagements. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

With market volatility and economic pressure higher than it has been in more than a decade, the ways businesses manage and account for their money is inevitably included in that wave of operational change. That means significant implications for the ways accountants and auditors operate both within an enterprise and externally from it.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The Big Four auditing firms — EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC — have recently requested that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) provide clarity in how corporates should classify their reverse factoring or supply chain financing agreements, adding more fuel to a long-standing debate as to whether such trade financing tools are debt.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

.’s so-called Big Four accounting giants — PwC, Deloitte, KPMG and EY — have reportedly set aside more than $212 million in preparation for potential fines ahead as auditing scrutiny grows. million in fines to the auditing industry, three times the value of fines it had issued in the year prior.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Venture capital funding landed at supplier payment and compliance automation firms this week, among other B2B innovators that raised money. The big B2B investment of the week was Tipalti , which landed $150 million in new funding on a $2 billion valuation. PYMNTS rounds up the latest funding rounds below.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In a statement, Coatue Management Senior Managing Director Thomas Laffont said that artificial intelligence (AI) enables AppZen to deploy more sophisticated analytics and automation within its expense management solution, which allows businesses to assess expenses, automate expense report audits, and identify savings opportunities. “AI

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

auditing giant to overhaul operations amid growing regulatory scrutiny on the industry. PwC is reportedly planning to ramp up its auditing operations by hiring 500 more auditors across the U.K., The company will also deploy a digital audit team, strengthen training operations and review existing clients. .”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Wirecard is having auditing giant KPMG expand the scope of its review of Wirecard financials as the company continues to defend against allegations of fraud. 6) said Wirecard is having KPMG expand its audit review and expects authorities in Singapore to clear the company of any claims of fraud. Reports in Reuters on Wednesday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2020

the newest update to its software, to help companies with faster account reconciliation, artificial intelligence, systems integration and more, a press release says. All of it will aid companies in reducing time spent on task management and audit preparation, which will help eliminate the risk of making mistakes in that area.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

lawmakers are calling for new legislation that would ensure auditors and accountants are better able to identify and call out issues within their clients’ finances as the government works to avoid more high-profile corporate collapses. Finance U.K. reported on Monday (Nov. Finance U.K. reported on Monday (Nov. She added that the U.K.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Accounts payable (AP) teams are now taking a fresh look at the potential of tools such as virtual cards to ease their transaction frictions. The September CFO Guide To Digitizing B2B Payments explores how corporate buyers are streamlining their B2B transactions with digital payments and supplier onboarding tools.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

When it comes to B2B payments and supply chain management , many of those opportunities have surfaced as a result of some troubling vulnerabilities that have come to light in the midst of the pandemic. Accounts receivable isn't the only way to improve the buyer-supplier relationship in the flow of B2B transactions.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Working closely with the Private Enterprise – Tax leader,Brad Sprong, Francois will be focused on accelerating the strategic growth priority for the firm to provide audit, tax and advisory services to venture capital and private equity-backed enterprises at each stage of their business life cycle. Francois’ previous roles as CFO at Shield.AI

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Working closely with the Private Enterprise – Tax leader,Brad Sprong, Francois will be focused on accelerating the strategic growth priority for the firm to provide audit, tax and advisory services to venture capital and private equity-backed enterprises at each stage of their business life cycle. Francois’ previous roles as CFO at Shield.AI

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Deloitte will be the first of the “Big Four” auditors to break up its business after selecting a new auditing board to undertake the task, according to a report from The Telegraph. 11), Deloitte revealed it had set up an audit governance board to help to eventually separate the audit division from the rest of the company.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2017

million — a record for the watchdog, reports said — for misconduct during its audit of Connaught. Reports Thursday (May 11) said the Financial Reporting Council slapped PwC with the fine and issued a separate fine to retired PwC audit partner Stephen Harrison for his role in the 2009 audit. regulator has fined PwC $6.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

You could call accounts payable (AP) the last mile of payments in a way. In the B2B realm, the movement to get suppliers paid on time may become a struggle, mired as AP management is in the paper chase of manual effort. These are firms that have failed audits or are about to fail audits.

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