ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 27, 2024

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Going Concern

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Audit Large Accounting Firms Will Have to Submit Financial Statements to U.S. Regulator [ Wall Street Journal ] Large accounting firms will have to submit financial statements annually to the U.S. Regulator [ Wall Street Journal ] Large accounting firms will have to submit financial statements annually to the U.S.

auditor

Going Concern

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Land an internship at a prestigious accounting firm. Fast forward to her sitting for the CPA exam 10 times and failing 9 while still in grad school… I had a glaring red flag in front of me that I was in the wrong profession, and yet, I clung to my career in accounting because it was a part of the plan. Graduate undergrad.

accountant

Going Concern

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

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Accounting Today

JULY 15, 2025

If you have the endowment as a separate legal entity, thatll be swept in. By Michael Cohn 11h ago Technology Deloitte gives its auditors more agentic AI capacities Deloitte said its auditors will now have enhanced agentic AI capacities within Omnia, the firms global cloud-based audit and assurance platform.

Tax

Going Concern

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Audit Private Equity’s Ties to Companies’ Auditors Have Never Been Closer. accounting firms will have either sold an ownership stake or part of their business to private-equity investors, up from zero in 2020, said Allan Koltin, chief executive at advisory firm Koltin Consulting Group. That Worries Some Regulators.

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Accounting Today

JULY 3, 2025

Users can parse, extract and classify data from diverse file types, including contracts, images, free text, invoices, financial statements, legal forms and more with accuracy, with the AI handling variations in layout, language and handwriting.

Technology

Going Concern

JULY 18, 2025

Private Equity Private equity is coming for accounting firms. While they invest money and resources, PE firms look for profits in relatively short timeframes, often achieved through cost-cutting. Audit Automated auditors: could AI undermine financial reporting?

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Accounting Today

JULY 8, 2025

But the justices made clear they werent taking a position at this stage on whether individual agency plans for how to carry it out would pass legal muster. The challengers told the justices it was vital to keep the plan on hold until courts could rule on its legality.

Technology

Menzies

JUNE 16, 2025

Menzies LLP - A leading chartered accountancy firm. The issuer would remain legally responsible for the backing assets. The consultation proposes a firm T+1 (i.e. next day) settlement timeline for redemption orders, a specific requirement that firms will need to ensure they can meet operationally.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Not only have third-year law students permanent job offers been revoked and summer internship programs been canceled, but government agencies have also pulled out of law school recruitment events for future legal roles. This is the cream of the crop, accountants and auditors with a variety of backgrounds and certifications ready to hire.

Arizona

Going Concern

APRIL 25, 2025

Marketplace (NPR)] The big concern for the services sector as a whole both for firms that export and those that do all their business here is what will happen if the tariffs cause the whole economy to contract, said Meagan Schoenberger, senior economist at KPMG. Hetrick said many of them are trying to cut back on accounting services.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

M&A Baker Tilly to snap up Hayflich CPAs [ International Accounting Bulletin ] Advisory, tax, and assurance firm Baker Tilly has announced its intent for the acquisition of Hayflich CPAs, an accounting firm serving West Virginia, US.

West Virginia

Going Concern

MARCH 7, 2025

— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) March 7, 2025 Audit Chair Williams To Host Chicago Forum for Auditors of Small Businesses and Auditors of Broker-Dealers [ PCAOB ] The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) that PCAOB Chair Erica Y. million) announced the acquisition of Chicago-based firm Tassi and Company.

Government

Going Concern

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

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Account

TaxConnex

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. Are they experienced with auditors?

Sales

CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A proposal issued by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) on Tuesday would hold auditors and others more accountable when they negligently, directly, and substantially cause their firm to violate auditing standards.

auditor

Going Concern

JUNE 13, 2023

Financial Reporting Council chair and stereotypically European named Jan du Plessis has told the Financial Times that audit firms — who regularly complain about the UK audit regulator being up their asses — should pay their junior auditors more. And we have all heard the complaints from junior auditors.

auditor

Going Concern

JULY 31, 2023

Related: PwC settled ‘false LPP’ penalties days before bid to suppress emails [ Australian Financial Review ]: The Tax Office signed a confidential settlement with PwC in March involving the firm’s false claims for legal professional privilege over 150 documents related to tax advice to a multinational client.

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Going Concern

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

.” Big Four: EY, Deloitte, KPMG, and PwC step on law firms’ toes increasing legal revenue to £1.25bn [ City A.M. ] The Big Four accounting firms – EY, Deloitte, KPMG, and PwC – are capturing an ever-larger share of the global market for legal services.

Legal

AdviceForTaxpreparers

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

My name is Bill Meador and I am writing a book to help tax staff succeed in a public accounting firm tax department. Issue 3: I am an accounting major, auditor, or I don’t have enough experience in tax to promote the book. Accounting Jokes, Videos, Puns and Humor - July 29, 2019. by Bill Meador, CPA, JD.

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ThomsonReuters

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The 2024 Generative AI in Professional Services research conducted by the Thomson Reuters Institute provides a comprehensive overview of the burgeoning role of GenAI across various professional sectors, including legal, tax, accounting, risk, and government. However, these changes happen slowly and are not always used by all firms.”

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Going Concern

APRIL 19, 2024

consulting partners by more than 50% compared with last year as demand for advisory services continues to slow and the firm reorganizes its business lines. The Big Four accounting firm is considering adding about 85 U.S. Ardoino stated, “None of the Big Four firms are willing to audit us.”

accounting firms

Going Concern

APRIL 30, 2024

It’s been almost six years since the Canadian government legalized recreational cannabis and ever since, a microcosm of financial reporting and auditing has been growing (no pun) beside it. Note that many companies switched auditors so not all fees listed went to the current auditor.) billion Canadian dollar ($3.7

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CPA Practice

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The PCAOB approved the updated quality control standard , QC 1000, A Firm’s System of Quality Control , last May. Gary Gensler “An auditing firm is ultimately a professional services firm, and it needs to ensure the quality of the services it provides,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler said in a statement. “I

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 15, 2023

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.

audit

Going Concern

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

KPMG extends pay freeze to 12,000 UK staff [ Financial Times ] Bosses at the Big Four accountancy firm told staff across its four divisions in recent weeks that they would not receive a pay rise this year unless they were promoted, according to people familiar with the matter.

auditor

Going Concern

APRIL 22, 2024

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?

audit

Going Concern

MARCH 15, 2024

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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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The London-based global accounting firm officially known as PricewaterhouseCoopers International is in talks to lease three floors at a new office building at 3155 Olsen Drive, across from Santana Row in West San Jose, the San Jose Mercury News reported, citing unidentified sources.

auditor

Going Concern

JULY 17, 2023

Also this: How the big four accounting firms infiltrated governments, earning more than $10b over a decade while taxpayers are in the dark : They’ve been described as an infestation. The big four accounting firms — EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC — are now under the spotlight like never before.

Account

Going Concern

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Big 4 EY considers handing retired US partners cut of proceeds from spin-off [ Financial Times ] EY has told retired US partners it is considering giving them a cut of the proceeds from a spin-off of its consulting arm, after complaints that the firm’s leadership is cashing in on a business built by previous generations. Ha ha,” he chuckles.

cpas

Going Concern

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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.

CPA

Going Concern

MAY 12, 2023

As a firm we have had to be proactive in our response to attracting candidates, addressing workforce planning and aligning our recruitment strategy to reflect this.” Colorado Springs accounting firm to open Denver office [ Denver Business Journal ] Stockman Kast Ryan and Co., Where’s your sense of adventure?

CPA

Going Concern

OCTOBER 20, 2023

TowerBrook and Eisner plan to continue acquiring regional accounting firms or partnerships. Brentwood-based LBMC, a business consulting and financial services firm, will welcome Louisville-based accounting firm Strothman & Co under its family of companies. This move, effective Nov.

CPA

Going Concern

JUNE 23, 2023

Audit “When you are a hammer, the world is a nail” – SEC and PCAOB Senior Staff Signal Increased SEC and PCAOB Gatekeeper Enforcement [ Lexology ] SEC Enforcement and PCAOB Enforcement both are pursuing more significant sanctions against auditors, particularly with respect to civil money penalties. 31 is still not finished.

cpa firm

Going Concern

APRIL 12, 2024

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