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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The Consulting Firm Going All In on AI; KPMG Finds Out Which Country Is Most AI Illiterate | 6.23.25

Going Concern

private companies, employee benefit plans, not-for-profit organizations and state and local governments, and attestation standards. government spending, and the latest bookings decline adds to concerns that securing new business was also getting harder. The Auditing Standards Board sets audit standards for U.S.

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Attention, Soon-to-be-Accountants: Governments Need You

CPA Practice

By Girard Miller, Governing (TNS) S&P Global Ratings recently withdrew its credit ratings on 64 local governments after they failed to file financial updates on time because of staff shortages and delayed audits. So what’s changed in the supply chain for governmental accountants?

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Guy Proposes Not Terrible Ideas to Get People Into Government Accounting

Going Concern

Late filings aren’t terribly uncommon in the world of government entities but the delays are piling up and retirements of an aging workforce in the public sector aren’t helping. But yes, government workers should use all that glorious spare time they have and use it to go promote their jobs to young people.