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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Canada Admits to Layoffs; Why Audit? | 11.27.23

Going Concern

Also LOL: Canadian Accountant has their own article on the layoffs : Anxiety over potential layoffs began building earlier this month when some PwC employees received meeting requests (“Important Business Update”) with “relationship leaders” (RLs). Every year over five million workers mistakenly pay too much income tax to HMRC.

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What’s the difference between accounting and bookkeeping?

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Much like those people who don’t understand the difference between Aussie rules, league and association football and call them all footy, a number of small business owners use the terms accounting and bookkeeping interchangeably. An easy start is to say that an accountant can be a bookkeeper but a bookkeeper isn’t an accountant.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Semper Fi-nancial; EY Gets a D in Auditing; Deepfake CFOs Are a Thing | 2.26.24

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National Review wins for best headline : The PCAOB has released EY Canada’s latest inspection report, they got a D : Big Four accounting firm Ernst and Young had multiple deficiencies in half the audits inspected by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in the United States in 2022. deficiencies).

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Friday Footnotes: Client Hid ‘Damning’ Audit; Predictions for the Profession; Accounting Firm Gets Compromised | 4.15.22

Going Concern

To counter this perception, the accounting profession could be rebranded as a foundational force of social stability and progress, and not just as “a job” with long hours and low return on investment (ROI) on education. There is another way of putting this: Accounting is a profession whose brand has not been diluted.

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Friday Footnotes: Fired Accountant Spills the Dirty Laundry; Scandals of Yore; Gen AI For Good | 1.26.24

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. Indeed, trust is not built on mitigating risks alone. million from the federal government.

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Accounting Jokes, Videos, Puns and Humor

AdviceForTaxpreparers

Advice for Tax Preparers Making tax preparers lives easier one blog at a time HOME. Accounting Jokes, Videos, Puns and Humor. If you are going to be an accountant then you have to be able to laugh at yourself. Accounting and CPA Puns. Short Accounting and CPA Jokes. Famous Accounting Quotes.

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What is tax advisory?

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If you’re a tax and accounting professional, you’ve likely found yourself answering numerous questions related to your clients’ tax returns. Whether it’s advising on residential energy tax credits or restructuring a partnership, your knowledge and expertise beyond the tax return are valuable.

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