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The Auditor’s Opinion

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Tonight I will conduct my second Auditing class session of this semester at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and I will be teaching what the auditor’s opinion means and what auditors do to arrive at their opinion. By way of illustration, you can pick any Company’s annual report and follow along with its Auditor’s Report.

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Specialized Audit Skills are Needed for Climate Transition

CPA Practice

The role of accountants and auditors is crucial to accuracy and transparency in this type of financial reporting to help attract investors and maintain their trust. Firms should consider working with a talent provider to more readily navigate the emerging sustainable finance landscape across the world.

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Specialized Audit Skills are Needed for Climate Transition

CPA Practice

The role of accountants and auditors is crucial to accuracy and transparency in this type of financial reporting to help attract investors and maintain their trust. Firms should consider working with a talent provider to more readily navigate the emerging sustainable finance landscape across the world.

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Friday Footnotes: Deloitte Partner Scammed By Other Deloitte Partner; Big 4 Legal Grows; A $3.5 Billion Error | 2.17.23

Going Concern

” Big Four: EY, Deloitte, KPMG, and PwC step on law firms’ toes increasing legal revenue to £1.25bn [ City A.M. ] The Big Four accounting firms – EY, Deloitte, KPMG, and PwC – are capturing an ever-larger share of the global market for legal services. Regulators are, in general, supportive.”

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Friday Footnotes: XOXO, Accountants; PwC Wants Tax Cuts; KPMG Stacks Partners | 7.1.22

Going Concern

Marking a Half-Century of Capital Markets Integrity [ Barron’s ] Former chair of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and trustee and chair of the Financial Accounting Foundation John J. GAAP, or generally accepted accounting principles. Brennan writes: The bedrock of that reporting regime is U.S.

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AICPA News – Sept 2023

CPA Practice

The practice aid, Accounting for and Auditing of Digital Assets , is intended to provide nonauthoritative guidance on how to account for and audit digital assets under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for nongovernmental entities and generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS), respectively.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Morale Is Suffering After Layoffs; Ignoring Audit Quality? | 3.11.24

Going Concern

PwC, an accounting firm formerly known as PricewaterhouseCoopers, tabulates the votes for the Academy Awards. According to this Fortune headline , audit quality is the “accounting crisis everybody seems to ignore” and the PCAOB is fighting to fix it. Who’s everybody? We rag on it all the time.

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