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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big 4 Firms Hate Going Concern (Warnings, That Is); Being a Whistleblower Blows | 5.20.24

Going Concern

PwC is facing legal action claiming the accountancy firm is liable for the alleged rape of a graduate employee following after-work drinks. Illinois CPA Society has issued a new pipeline report: Re-Decoding the Decline. The standard applies to all engagements where the firm serves as the lead auditor or has a “substantial role.”

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Friday Footnotes: CPA Says Stop ERC Fearmongering; Deloitte Cussed Out For ‘Grueling Culture’; Worst Books Ever | 2.23.24

Going Concern

Patrick, now a resident of Cody, Wyoming, co-owned a media brokerage firm with her husband and hired an accounting firm to prepare business and personal tax returns for 2012 through 2014. Despite receiving the completed and accurate tax returns from the accounting firm, Patrick did not file them with the IRS.

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Friday Footnotes: Work-Life Balance, Does It Work?; Big 4 Firms Slash Job Postings; She Doesn’t Even Go Here! | 2.16.24

Going Concern

This is according to the Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS), which surveyed 449 employers and 433 accounting and finance employees last summer and released its results last month. In the past few decades, public accounting firms have implemented work-life balance practices as part of their attempts to curb excessive turnover.

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

Going Concern

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.

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Friday Footnotes: Working Late; The Year of the ESOP?; It’s Not Layoffs, It’s “Repositioning” | 1.5.24

Going Concern

Big 4 Big Four Reshape Consulting Workforce, Strategy With Rare Layoffs [ Bloomberg Tax ] The Big Four accounting firms have leaned into their tech advisory work and data analytics services—areas ripe for revenue growth—as interest rates and the artificial intelligence boom reshaped demand for consulting services.

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Friday Footnotes: Looking Elsewhere For Talent; MPs Talk Private Equity Concerns; The Burnout Queen | 8.25.23

Going Concern

Footnotes is a collection of stories from around the accounting profession curated by actual humans and published every Friday at 5pm Eastern. The accounting industry is in a state of transition. The influx of private equity, labor shortages, and remote/hybrid work have all impacted accounting firms to varying degrees.

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

Going Concern

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.