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FASB Taps EY Partner as New Technical Director

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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) on March 20 appointed a longtime veteran of Big Four firm EY to the role of director of technical activities. FASB standards are central to the entire system by which investors and other users of financial information make decisions. chief accountant.

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Talent Why Graduates Aren’t Hot on Accounting Careers: Low Starting Pay, Onerous Testing [ Wall Street Journal ] For Connor Verrett, an economics major and entrepreneurship minor at Washington & Lee University who expects to graduate this month, that roadblock was among the factors he considered in eschewing an accounting career. “It

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Day Named Technical Director of the Financial Accounting Standards Board [ FASB ] The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) on March 20 announced the appointment of Jackson M. Mr. Day has spent most of his 38-year accounting career at EY, which he initially joined in 1986 on the audit staff in St.

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Finance ] Aitzarelys Negrón, certified public accountant (CPA) and founder of Strategies and T.E.A., said, “I had been working at a [major] accounting firm since 2015 before being laid off in the fall of 2020.

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This is “translating into a lack of clarity in what gets reported, which then gives investors concerns, which (in turn) puts more pressure” on CFOs and the leadership team, said Myles Corson, global strategy and markets leader, financial accounting advisory services for EY. Their future is literally laid out in front of them.

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This reaction comes after the fashion retailer Superdry suspended trading in its shares in August having missed its account publication date, stating that normal procedures were taking longer than usual.

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