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Do Accounting Firms Care if You’re On Drugs? Part III

Going Concern

12 years ago my former colleague Caleb Newquist published a post titled “Do Accounting Firms Care if You’re On Drugs?” In summation: Do Big 4 firms drug test? These are accounting firms we’re talking about after all, change is not in their vocabulary. Well that was…interesting.

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Grant Thornton and Five Other Firms Got Coal in Their Stockings From the PCAOB

Going Concern

The PCAOB added six audit firms —three international, including a KPMG affiliate, and three in the U.S., The PCAOB said: In December 2016, the Utah DOPL simultaneously initiated and concluded disciplinary proceedings against Grant Thornton (“Utah Proceeding”). including Grant Thornton—to its 2022 naughty list on Dec.

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In the Trenches: My Three Least Favorite Audit Rooms

Going Concern

Audit rooms come in all shapes and sizes—usually small, often windowless, sometimes with chairs you can actually sit on, and almost always as far away from the finance/accounting department as possible. After eight years in public accounting, I have loads of unforgettable audit room experiences. Here are just a few.

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Friday Footnotes: Bob Moritz Disappoints Us; ERC Window Slamming Shut; 2024 Sucks For Firms? | 3.22.24

Going Concern

Day will join the FASB from Ernst & Young LLP (EY), the global accounting and professional services firm, where he is a partner working in Professional Practice. Mr. Day has spent most of his 38-year accounting career at EY, which he initially joined in 1986 on the audit staff in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Professionals on the Move – Dec. 2023

CPA Practice

Johnny Welborn, Texas Elite 25 Teresa Barton, Utah Jeri Beckham, Texas Frank Calise, Ariz. Teresa Barton, Utah Farooq Bawa, Ill. Amie Fuller, Utah Michelle Gillespie, Pa. The 2023 H&R Block Featured Franchisees of the Year, Elite 25, and Top 100 include: Featured Franchisees of the Year Anthony Temple, Mich. Dawn Every, N.Y.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Partners Banging the Client Again; Turnstile Data Shows Staff DGAF About RTO | 1.29.24

Going Concern

An FBI investigation was initiated in December 2021 after an accounting firm was hired to liquidate a client’s property upon his death in 2020 and found the piece of art. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, which had audited the direct-sales company since 1995, told the company in October that it didn’t want to continue.

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Professionals on the Move: Sept 2023

CPA Practice

Auriemma has experience providing audit services to clients in the commercial industries, banking and financial institutions, as well as a variety of benefit plans. She earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Additionally, Ben Miller has been recognized for the third consecutive year.