CPA Practice

AUGUST 28, 2024

Fieldguide for Financial Audit 2024 CPA Practice Advisor Innovation Award Finalist [link] Fieldguide, the only AI platform for audit and advisory firms, recently launched one of its most impactful innovations this year: Fieldguide for Financial Audit. End-to-End Audit Efficiency.

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CPA Practice

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In an era where AI, particularly generative AI, is reshaping industries, small accounting firms stand at a crossroads. As we approach 2024, the integration of AI into accounting practices is not just an opportunity for an advantage, but a necessity. Training your team on the importance of data integrity and security is vital.

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CPA Practice

JANUARY 23, 2023

With markets changing and capital becoming more constrained by the day, there is a rapidly heightened awareness of the role that due diligence and audits play. These manual verification procedures are painstaking — and most often relegated to the audit professionals early in their career. By Tod McDonald.

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Shay CPA

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Getting an audit notice from a tax authority is enough to stop most founders in their tracks. While things like high deductions can definitely trigger an audit, it’s also possible to get chosen at random. No matter why you get an audit letter, one thing is always true: the steps you take next matter.

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CPA Practice

JULY 9, 2023

the developer of the award-winning cloud-based audit automation platform, has announced aquired Advantage Audit from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Advantage Audit is an audit planning aid and audit program series designed to help auditors comply with risk-based professional standards in a straightforward and efficient manner.

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Top 60 accounting firm Prager Metis agreed to pay $1.95 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday to settle charges that it bungled audits of failed crypto asset trading platform FTX. In addition, the firm agreed to be censured.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The PCAOB today announced settled disciplinary orders sanctioning Greece-based PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditing Company SA (PwC Greece) and its partner Nicos George Komodromos for violations of PCAOB rules and standards in connection with the audit of the 2016 financial statements of Aegean Marine Petroleum Network Inc.

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CPA Practice

MAY 10, 2023

The head of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) said today that its inspectors found significant deficiencies in the audits of U.S.-listed listed Chinese companies conducted by KPMG’s affiliate in mainland China and PwC’s member firm in Hong Kong. Today’s reports are a powerful first step toward accountability.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 30, 2024

North Jersey man sues law and accounting firms, says they padded his bills to nearly $2M [ NorthJersey.com ] An Oradell man is suing the law firm Sills Cummis & Gross PC and accounting firm CohnReznick, alleging the two entities padded his total bills to nearly $2 million. In the four-count suit filed Aug.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 8, 2024

Hey remember the Bloomberg story last March about how staff shortages at audit firms were causing municipal credit ratings to tank ? S&P has placed 149 long-term, underlying and program ratings on a negative credit watch this year because the ratings company hasn’t received 2021 financial statements from the issuers.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 15, 2023

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has not been in a jovial mood lately. Shortly after criticizing audit firms for the number of errors they made on public company audits reviewed by PCAOB inspectors last year, the audit watchdog doled out sanctions to 12 accounting firms from July 28 to Aug.

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ThomsonReuters

MARCH 20, 2024

When it comes to Single Audits of local governments, nonprofits, school districts, and HUD engagements, auditors must navigate through a complex set of rules that are constantly changing. These challenges compound quickly as the volume of audits increases. However, there is an answer: audit automation.

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Given the significant changes in the auditing environment since that time, the PCAOB made it a priority to modernize and update those rules. 1, A Firm’s System of Quality Management , adopted by the AICPA. In 2023, only 14 audit firms out of a total of more than 1,600 registered with the PCAOB met the 100-issuer-or-more threshold.

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Going Concern

JUNE 13, 2023

Financial Reporting Council chair and stereotypically European named Jan du Plessis has told the Financial Times that audit firms — who regularly complain about the UK audit regulator being up their asses — should pay their junior auditors more. The solution is entirely in [firms’] hands.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 15, 2023

EY client Bank of America sent a similar notice to its customers last week , that notice did not go into detail as to the why an accounting firm would have had access to this customer information like Popular’s does. Upon learning of the incident, PwC immediately launched an investigation and ceased using the impacted software.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 21, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) doled out a total of $150,000 in fines to three partners at KPMG in China for turning a blind eye to U.S. auditing standards. audit regulator. Specifically, they didn’t appropriately evaluate the reasonableness of Tarena’s allowance for doubtful accounts.

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CPA Practice

JUNE 10, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) doled out $150,000 worth of total fines to a Plantation, FL-based CPA firm on June 10 for violations related to quality control, auditing failures, and missing Form AP deadlines. L&L also failed to timely file Form APs for two audits.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

auditing requirements because in numerous audits over numerous years Deloitte China asked clients to select their own samples for testing and to prepare their own audit documentation. auditing requirements in its component audits of U.S. issuers and its audits of foreign companies listed on U.S.

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Going Concern

JUNE 29, 2022

The hardworking human beings at Audit Analytics have released their analysis of initial public offering trends and IPO auditor market share for the first quarter of this year , a period in which the number of companies going public was minuscule compared to Q1 of 2021. Marcum and Withum combined audited 49.3%

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Thomson Reuters has announced the release of Checkpoint Engage Single Audit, the only web-based application that automates the entire single audit process. accounting firms perform approximately 40,000 single audits for clients who receive federal grants. To learn more, visit Checkpoint Engage Single Audit.

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CPA Practice

MARCH 15, 2023

They often focus their efforts to maximize the eventual sales value of the acquired business via a combination of targeted acquisitions of other firms, capital investments, expansion into profitable niches, waste reduction, tech adaptation, streamlining and other measures. What size accounting firms are private equity groups eyeing?

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Here’s what happened: Ontario public accounting licensing body CPA Ontario reached an out-of-court settlement with Marcum LLP resolving allegations of multiple instances of US Marcum partners performing work in Ontario — including issuer audits — without said partners being licensed to practice in the province.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 18, 2023

arm of accounting firm Crowe LLP, its CEO, and a senior auditor settled charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 14 over various mistakes the firm made during its 2018 audit of music streaming company Akazoo. issued a clean audit report of Akazoo’s 2018 financial statements.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

First things first: The PCAOB found that Warren Averett violated independence requirements during its 2019 and 2020 audits of an issuer, because the firm audited valuations performed for the issuer by another accounting firm that sponsored an alliance of which Warren Averett was a member. Nice to see.

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 17, 2023

More than half of the audits of brokers and dealers inspected by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) last year had mistakes, as audit firms took a big step backwards from improvements they made in 2021. The PCAOB has released annual progress reports on the audits of broker-dealers since 2012.

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Going Concern

APRIL 15, 2022

Accounting watchdog investigates Deloitte over Go-Ahead audits [ The Guardian ] One of the UK’s biggest accounting firms, Deloitte, is under investigation by regulators for its audits of Go-Ahead, after the bus and rail operator was embroiled in a scandal for wrongly withholding £50m of taxpayers’ money.

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CPA Practice

APRIL 10, 2024

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) issued a pair of proposals on April 9, one of which would require audit firms to publicly disclose several metrics —including the involvement of partners and managers on an audit, auditor workload, and auditor turnover—on a new form that would be accessible to investors.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The tax and audit practice, through affiliate BSR & Co, will be excluded from the merged entity and could be made into a separate entity, though that is still under discussion, the people said requesting anonymity. In 2018, Veritas Capital, which invests in businesses at the intersection of government and technology, acquired the U.S.

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Going Concern

JULY 11, 2022

The UK watchdog last month issued a £5m fine for failures in its audit of the construction firms Galliford Try and Kier. PwC is also facing investigations by the UK’s Financial Reporting Council into outsourcer Babcock, wound-down Wyelands Bank, collapsed investment firm London Capital and Finance, and Eddie Stobart Logistics.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Former employee of Chattanooga accounting firm speaks out [ Local 3 ] A former employee of Croft and Frost is speaking out following the accounting firm’s shutdown that cost him and his coworkers their jobs. The 2023 Forum on Auditing in the Small Business Environment and on Auditing Broker-Dealers is set for Oct.

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Going Concern

JULY 2, 2024

The other day, BDO USA released a press release entitled “BDO Strengthens Audit Quality Commitment with Addition of Second Independent Member on Audit Quality Advisory Council ,”the content of which strongly suggests that their next Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) inspection is going to be hot garbage.

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Going Concern

JUNE 22, 2022

The PCAOB adopted a new audit standard yesterday (AS 1206, Dividing Responsibility for the Audit With Another Accounting Firm ) to ensure that lead auditors are properly supervising the outside auditors they use. 4) Make additional conforming amendments. 4) Make additional conforming amendments. . ·

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CPA Practice

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Given the significant changes in the auditing environment since that time, the PCAOB made it a priority to modernize and update those rules. 1, A Firm’s System of Quality Management , adopted by the AICPA. In 2023, only 14 audit firms out of a total of more than 1,600 registered with the PCAOB met the 100-issuer-or-more threshold.

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ThomsonReuters

JANUARY 12, 2023

The primary role of an accountant is to handle a variety of tasks including tax preparation, financial planning and audits. . One of these expanded service areas is audit. . But what exactly does offering auditing services entail? How does it compare to traditional accounting services?

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Accounting Insight

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Accounts payable automation, also known as AP automation or invoicing automation, is the process of automating accounts payable processes and activities while collecting the critical data required to make smart decisions, improve efficiency, and grow your business. Reconciling bank statements. Approving expenses.

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The Big Four accounting firms are even reaching out to high school students to share that message and creating more flexible work environments, Lansford says. Behemoth’ big four consulting firms keep getting bigger [ Australian Financial Review ]. Income at the big four consulting firms jumped 17 per cent to hit $9.91

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ThomsonReuters

JANUARY 24, 2023

Driven by the widening range of stakeholders calling for ESG prioritization, an influx of laws and regulations pertaining to ESG, and a rise in ESG investment products, companies are increasingly setting their sights on ESG-related initiatives, such as audit certification. In fact, an article by global management consulting firm McKinsey and Co.,

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