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Friday Footnotes: PwC Partners Get Played; Bad Accounting on the Rise; Getting to the Bottom of the Shortage | 9.1.23

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Check out this week’s top remote accounting candidates. Audit Battle lines drawn over auditors’ role in combating fraud [ AccountancyAge “Patisserie Valerie pushed the issue of auditor responsibility [for fraud detection] to the fore after so many accounting scandals.

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Friday Footnotes: ‘KPMG Did Not Know What They Were Doing’; Are You Boring?; PCAOB Warns About Confirmations | 3.25.22

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Many firms turn to third-party service providers to send and receive electronic audit confirmations to and from “confirming parties,” including banks, financial institutions, investment and brokerage firms, and law firms. Louis also held himself out to be an accountant who prepared tax returns for pay or as a favor to friends.