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Friday Footnotes: How to Add ChatGPT to Excel; RSM Wins Awards; Auditor Independence Pitfalls | 4.7.23

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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. Build ChatGPT into Excel [ Journal of Accountancy ] Note that this process currently works in Microsoft Excel 365, Microsoft Excel 365 for Mac, and Excel for the web. I can imagine it.

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Finance Directors’ Tax Toolkit

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Menzies LLP - A leading chartered accountancy firm. Menzies are often appointed by the Finance Directors of large companies and groups to work alongside their existing auditors. Menzies is a leading UK firm of accountants, finance and business advisers. Why Menzies?

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Tuesday Morning Accounting News Brief: Getting Roofied at KPMG?; PwC: ‘Burnout Should Be a Concern’ | 9.5.23

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Stout served as the exclusive financial advisor to BDO and led the ESOP structuring, financing process, and execution on behalf of the company. Stout also served as the sole debt placement agent on a term loan financing led by Apollo-managed funds to facilitate the ESOP. The transaction closed on August 31.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Partners Banging the Client Again; Turnstile Data Shows Staff DGAF About RTO | 1.29.24

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Accounting Ranks First In Something Good For Once More 2. We are in the midst of a transformation, if not a revolution, whereby the role of an “accountant” is no longer confined to ledgers and balance sheets, but extends to realms previously unimagined. Tupperware hired the Big Four auditor on Jan.

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How to enhance the audit experience

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Menzies LLP - A leading chartered accountancy firm. Even so care is needed in the implementation of any changes to ensure SMEs are not the victims of unintended consequences, this has been given a cautious welcome by some auditors. The key to driving value from the audit process is enhancing the overall experience.

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Revised ISA (UK) 315

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Menzies LLP - A leading chartered accountancy firm. Overview of change for auditors: The changes to the standard require a much more granular based risk identification and assessment process, which means that auditors will have to significantly revise their audit approach in order to meet these comprehensive requirements.

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Friday Footnotes: Retired EY Partners Hate on the Split; It’s a Raid!; ‘An Alphabet Soup of Technology’ | 11.18.22

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More than 150 retired EY partners have written to the accounting firm’s leadership objecting to the radical plan to split its consulting and audit businesses. Bam is a chartered accountant and an outstanding South African. After 1,600 auditors combed through DOD’s $3.5 trillion in assets and $3.7