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Wolters Kluwer’s Continuing Audit Education Adds Value

MarkFriedlich

The value of continuing audit education from the School of Audit During the first few months of each year our lives go on hold as we take care of our clients needs. As auditors, we understand that. However, if you think that your employees are too busy to care about continuing audit education, think again. […].

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In ongoing accounting crunch, where to go for sales tax help?

TaxConnex

More generally, accounting talent pool concerns are pressing even for accounting firms , as enrollment rates of accounting students continue to fall. The accounting education pipeline is drier than ever even as accounting degrees require many additional course hours. There were about 1.65

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Friday Footnotes: RTO Isn’t Going So Great; KPMG Wins Something; What Auditors? | 5.19.23

Going Concern

Special Report: KPMG Canada beats Big Four accounting rivals in net new client gains [ Canadian Accountant ] For the second year in a row, KPMG Canada has surpassed its Big Four rivals in net new audit client gains, helping to offset the loss of a controversial company as an audit client. Chinese companies switch auditors to avoid U.S.

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Challenges and opportunities for accounting firm partners transitioning to the cloud

ThomsonReuters

There are, however, other considerations at play and challenges that accounting firm leaders may face when looking to move to the cloud. To help firms navigate the change, this article will take a closer look at both some of the opportunities and challenges that firm owners and partners should consider.

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Our Obsession with Hours Is Destroying the Accounting Profession

CPA Practice

A talent shortage is affecting accounting firms across the demographic spectrum. Each year fewer accountants enter the profession while more CPAs near retirement. According to the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, the number of U.S. Specifically, educational hours and billable hours.

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Audits Are a Joke and Here’s Why According to a Salty Old Industry Veteran

Going Concern

Those of us who’ve worked or even simply seen behind the curtain of audit know the things he points out to be true — assurance is reasonable not absolute , financial statements are the responsibility of management not auditors, “finding fraud” is not the ultimate goal of audits — but do investors?

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PCAOB Has Handed Out a Slew of Punishments to Audit Firms Recently

CPA Practice

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. Here is a recap of the PCAOB’s busy last two weeks of enforcement and the firms that got busted.

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