Going Concern

JULY 1, 2022

Marking a Half-Century of Capital Markets Integrity [ Barron’s ] Former chair of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and trustee and chair of the Financial Accounting Foundation John J. GAAP, or generally accepted accounting principles. Brennan writes: The bedrock of that reporting regime is U.S.

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Going Concern

MARCH 4, 2022

Meanwhile on Twitter, our friend Sam Antar is still roasting the KPMG auditors (well, technically Peat Marwick) who let the Crazy Eddie fraud slip through their horny little fingers: Two hookers and an auditor. in Tax Season ‘Chaos’ [ New York Times ] At the Internal Revenue Service’s sprawling Kansas City, Mo.,

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Going Concern

MARCH 8, 2024

District Court for the Southern District of New York said. The accounting firm’s former executive director has already served her eight month prison sentence and supervised release term. In the wake of the deficient audit work by the firm and Gries, Tingo underwent multiple restatements of its 2021 financial statements.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 2, 2023

While the PCAOB has been on a mission to scare the pants off of auditors everywhere in the past year with record fines and scary speeches, the Financial Accounting Standards Board took a much more chill approach to 2022. 8—Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting—Chapter 2: The Reporting Entity.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

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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JANUARY 13, 2023

The Abradin association said it was denouncing Americanas for what it called a “multi-billion fraud,” while also asking regulator CVM to investigate the retailer’s auditor, PwC. Trump’s Company Gets Maximum Punishment for Evading Taxes [ New York Times ]. Former President Donald J.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Private Equity Why private-equity investors see a target-rich environment in Chicago’s accounting biz [ Crain’s Chicago Business ] Isn’t “target-rich environment” what Overwatch’s Soldier 76 says when he pops his ult and proceeds to melt the entire enemy team? Foreshadowing maybe.

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DECEMBER 23, 2022

UK companies brace themselves for escalating battles with auditors [ Financial Times ]. UK companies are gearing up for conflicts with auditors next year as economic and political uncertainty add to the difficulty of signing off accounts and forecasting financial outlooks. Current rules don’t require this.

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