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Accountants Behaving Badly: Police Department Accountant Couldn’t Be Bothered, PPP Loan Fraud, and a Creepy Tax Preparer

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TPB slaps 5-year ban on accountant involved in $26m fraud [ Accountants Daily ] The Tax Practitioners Board has slapped a five-year ban on a Sydney accountant charged with stealing $26 million through his firm to fund a lavish lifestyle and gambling addiction.

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Pays High Schoolers 20 Bucks an Hour; Deloitte Cyberattacked Too; IRS on ERC | 7.28.23

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He graduated summa cum laude in accounting from Baruch College with numerous other academic awards and a continuing passion for wrestling, Ping Pong and handball. He was drafted into the army in 1952 and returned to the accounting firm in 1954.

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Friday Footnotes: Accountant Shortage Ramps Up Work Pressure; Celebrities’ Trusted CPAs; ERC Reverse Card | 12.8.23

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Auditors say accountant shortage ramps up work pressure: CAQ [ CFO Dive ] A shortage of accountants has intensified pressure and ramped up workloads for accounting teams at U.S. companies while hindering recruitment and retention, according to 78% of audit partners surveyed by the Center for Audit Quality.

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Friday Footnotes: An Outsourcing Shortage Now Too?; Finally, Some Disruption; PwC Haters Celebrate Government Inquiry | 3.17.23

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Johnson continues, “If accounting firms want to venture deeper into the world of financial planning or wealth management, I suspect they would not be able to find enough CPAs with the necessary skill set to easily step into the role. We’ll allow gambling on it for a certain amount of time, then we’ll turn the gambling off.

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Friday Footnotes: How EY Fights Poaching; Lack of Staff Is Closing Doors; Accounting to Biglaw? | 11.25.22

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FRC to fine Deloitte £440k over 2018 audit [ Accountancy Today ]. According to the FRC, it found serious failings in the reviewed audit, which demonstrated a “significant departure from the standards expected of a registered auditor”. KPMG Australia appoints first-ever head of metaverse future [ Accounting Today ].

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Friday Footnotes: How Much Big 4 Spent on Lobbying Last Year; Super Bowl Bets; CFOs Feeling Good | 2.9.24

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Three of the firms also joined industry efforts to designate accounting as a science, technology, engineering, and math—or STEM—field, according to federal lobbying disclosures. My buddy from undergrad works office security at one of the Big 4 accounting firms in Midtown. Tax Betting on the Super Bowl? “Win big?

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY’s Paying Big For the Everest Failure; PwC UK Delays Promotions | 2.12.24

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That’s been happening across the industry, according to Adrienne Gonzalez, who edits the accounting blog Going Concern. With young people opting for higher-paying fields out of college, Gonzalez said that lots of accounting firms just can’t take on a lot of new business. Some are finding solutions overseas.

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