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Friday Footnotes: Disengaged Team? Do This; Deloitte’s Huge India Expansion; Auditors Yelled At…Again | 3.24.23

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Firm Watch Ex-BDO USA Workers Advance Narrowed 401(k) Plan Fee Challenge [ Bloomberg Law ] Former BDO USA LLP employees who accused the accounting firm of mismanaging their $1.2 CLA ranked number eight, marking the sixth consecutive year the firm has been recognized and ranked at that level. Auditors have done so too.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Isn’t Getting a Redemption; Just Say No to NOCLAR; Oh, Layoffs? | 3.15.24

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EY’s new boss shuffles leadership roles and plans cost cuts [ Financial Times ] EY’s new boss Janet Truncale has set out her leadership team for the Big Four accounting firm, moving an architect of its failed split from his executive role and signalling plans to cut costs across the global firm.

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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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Pipeline The AICPA and NASBA’s Inadequate Response to Reaching 150 Hours [ CPA Journal ] The 150-hour requirement is a considerable barrier for students wanting to become a CPA or considering accounting as a major, even if it is not the dominant barrier. hours), and quality of work performed as leading barriers.

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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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According to allegations in the indictment, from January 2019 to June 2022, Urban was employed as a senior staff accountant for a Charlotte-based company. Palos Hills Accountant Indicted In $7.8M Attorney General’s Office for Northern Illinois announced on Wednesday. million in small business loans under the CARES Act, the U.S.

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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: 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.

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Monday Afternoon Accounting News Brief: Stop Calling It an Audit; Deloitters Clean Up Some Trash | 8.21.23

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This week I’ll be covering the Illinois CPA Society SUMMIT23 so if you want to keep up with all that from the comfort of your home or office go on Twitter. I’m not an auditor, either by training or current profession, and I’m not here to write about how audits work. If you’re attending live come find me, I have stickers.

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