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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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TPB slaps 5-year ban on accountant involved in $26m fraud [ Accountants Daily ] The Tax Practitioners Board has slapped a five-year ban on a Sydney accountant charged with stealing $26 million through his firm to fund a lavish lifestyle and gambling addiction.

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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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Expand the accounting pipeline with a mentorship circle [ Journal of Accountancy ] At a time when the CPA pipeline is running slow, mentoring can be a powerful tool to recruit potentially interested students into accounting and guide them to careers in the profession. The SEC approved the standard on Dec.

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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. “Win big?

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Friday Footnotes: Anyone Wanna Work in Hollywood?; Profit-Hungry CEOs Love Gen AI; KPMG’s SF Future | 1.19.24

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Practice Protecting tax accounting information: Best practices for IT professionals in data security and confidentiality [ Thomson Reuters ] Accounting firms are entrusted with a wealth of sensitive financial data, including tax records, income statements, and other confidential information. Attorney Phillip A.

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Friday Footnotes: An Outsourcing Shortage Now Too?; Finally, Some Disruption; PwC Haters Celebrate Government Inquiry | 3.17.23

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Restoring Exam credits expired during COVID would help address CPA shortage [ AICPA ] The accounting profession is confronted with a talent shortage, and reinstating CPA exam credits that have expired since January 1, 2020, could have an immediate impact on our CPA pipeline.