Going Concern

MAY 19, 2023

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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Going Concern

APRIL 7, 2023

Client warns consultants about using ChatGPT-like bots for proposals [ Australian Financial Review ] Consulting firms risk misrepresenting what their firms can and cannot do when using artificial intelligence chatbots to develop sales proposals, a procurement specialist has warned. I can imagine it.

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ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Today, ESG is resulting in significant opportunities for auditors, fueled by the widening range of stakeholders calling for ESG prioritization, an influx of laws and regulations pertaining to ESG, and a rise in ESG investment products. What is the role of the auditor in ESG reporting? The future of ESG accounting.

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Going Concern

MAY 20, 2024

PwC is facing legal action claiming the accountancy firm is liable for the alleged rape of a graduate employee following after-work drinks. Auditors are required to include a going-concern warning if they believe there is a risk that the company may go bankrupt, rather than making a prediction that it will.

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Going Concern

MAY 31, 2024

Municipal Dumpster Fires Woonsocket city council respond to auditors abruptly quitting [ WLNE Providence ] Shout-out Mary Sahady who finally had enough of this b t and told this messy client to get bent. Woonsocket officials are hoping city auditors will change their mind, after they abruptly quit this past week. chief executive.

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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.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

An EY whistleblower has alleged the global accounting firm was warned as far back as 2016 that senior managers at Wirecard may have committed fraud and one had tried to bribe an auditor, the Financial Times (FT) reported. EY was Wirecard’s auditor for more than a decade.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In an article for CoinDesk , Francine McKenna took a crack at why the FTX debacle happened, and like she always does when there ’s really bad accounting at a company going through a financial crisis, who are/were the auditors: It’s not clear why FTX commissioned two different audit firms to audit its 2020 and 2021 financial statements.

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Going Concern

APRIL 12, 2023

Bloomberg has reported that Silicon Valley Bank auditors KPMG have been sued — along with underwriters Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Morgan Stanley — after SVB’s spectacular collapse on March 10. The complaint appears to be the first to target the bank’s auditors and underwriters. We knew this was coming.

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Going Concern

MAY 2, 2024

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Going Concern

JANUARY 29, 2024

But clients seek delivery of specialized services from the CPA firms knowing that they will be provided within an existing framework of quality, professionalism, discipline, and control. Tupperware hired the Big Four auditor on Jan. 5 letter from district administrator Joe Phillips to Chief Auditor Joris Jabouin.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 16, 2024

“I don’t see us revisiting the sale of the consulting business in the short term.” Accountants from EY and PwC are braced for questioning by the public inquiry into the Post Office scandal, which is expected to turn its attention to the embattled institution’s external auditors later this year.

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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. Now I understand the first reaction of many accountants to the concept of selling anything. Issue 1: I’m lousy at sales. If anyone uses your code to buy my book, then you earn a commission from the sale.

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ThomsonReuters

JULY 6, 2023

Here, we make the case by taking a look at the current landscape of the accounting profession and why transitioning to advisory services could be the career path you’ve been looking for. Why are so many accountants quitting? accountants and auditors have left their jobs in the past two years, a 17% decline.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 23, 2023

Reports The Guardian : More than 1,000 partners at the UK division of the “big four” accounting firm PwC will be paid £906,000 this year, a slight fall on last year’s record payout as profits fell despite rising revenues. Excluding the asset sale, revenues rose by 18%, from £4.9bn to £5.8bn. More than 1,000 partners = 1,057.

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audit auditor Legal Sales 87

Going Concern

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Underemployed staff at the Big Four auditors risk losing their jobs as firms step up their scrutiny of employee workloads in a downturn. EY and Deloitte are among firms that are letting inactive employees go at performance reviews outside of already announced job cuts, according to sources.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 30, 2023

Deloitte & Touche LLP partners and staffers failed to make financial disclosures required to ensure the independence of their audit work, according to new details from the firm’s 2018 PCAOB inspection. These are skills that AI simply cannot replicate.

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Going Concern

MARCH 13, 2023

Earlier: KPMG has served as SVB auditor since 1994. Per Part II, Item 8 “Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm” ( SEC EDGAR link ), KPMG issued an unqualified opinion two weeks before the bank failed. Just wanted to clear things up since we’re all memeing this guy and laughing at him today.

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Going Concern

JUNE 10, 2022

This latest statement follows a pair of statements issued in October 2021 and December 2021, both of which similarly highlighted auditor independence. This latest statement follows a pair of statements issued in October 2021 and December 2021, both of which similarly highlighted auditor independence.

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auditor accounting and finance audit CPA 58

Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

BDO is now among the largest ESOPs in the country and is the first large public accounting firm to transition to ESOP ownership. Also from AFR, Big 4 firms earn almost 100% of top companies’ audit fees : The big four accounting firms earned 99.3 The transaction closed on August 31. The company posted a £37.6m

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Going Concern

MARCH 11, 2022

SEC’s Top Accountant Warns of Bias Against Big Restatements [ Bloomberg Tax ] The SEC’s top accountant Wednesday questioned arguments used to justify stealth revisions to fix accounting errors, warning that companies and their auditors may be biased in making assessments to determine how to correct the mistakes.

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Going Concern

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Thought I’d do something on “legal THC” that you’ve probably seen for sale at your nearest gas station, will it cause you to fail a drug test? (If If your accounting firm requires drug tests , that is). It has to work.” AI doesn’t even know who you are, Deloitte.

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Going Concern

MARCH 30, 2022

The latest audit inspection results for Crowe show the 11th-ranked public accounting firm by revenue bombed 27% of the audits reviewed in the most recent PCAOB inspection cycle, but the firm was less bad in its 2020 report card than it was in 2019’s. Marcum auditors didn’t do too badly on audits of ICFR. Moss Adams.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

billion went missing from two accounts in the Philippines. Its auditor, Ernst & Young ( EY ), has said it was the result of a sophisticated global fraud. But EY, Hufeld and regulators are facing scrutiny over how the once high-flying company managed to escape the industry’s standard accounting rules.

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auditor accounting and finance Finance accounting firms 56

Going Concern

JANUARY 6, 2023

So customers have filed more than a half-dozen proposed class actions against the NFL’s Tom Brady, accounting firm Prager Metis and Bankman-Fried as an individual, among others. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, but employment in accounting and bookkeeping services fell by 1,100 jobs.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 18, 2023

But after TSG noticed a declining return on its investments, the firm hired an independent auditor to look into how 20th Century was calculating its share, the suit says — and “what the auditors found in sampling just three of the 140+ films at issue was clear evidence of Hollywood Accounting.” PwC Will Appeal $65.5

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CPA Practice

AUGUST 1, 2023

It would provide investors with more detailed information about the types of expenses, including employee compensation, depreciation, amortization, and costs incurred related to inventory and manufacturing activities in income statement expense captions such as cost of sales; selling, general and administrative; and research and development.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2020

Once worth $28 billion before it collapsed last month, Wirecard has contracted with Alix Partners, the New York-based forensic accounting firm, to explore the two missing deposits in Philippines banks totaling more than $2 billion uncovered by its auditor Ernst & Young and nearly $4 billion it owes creditors.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

EY’s global chairman and CEO has expressed regret over the accounting firm’s failure to uncover fraud sooner at Wirecard AG , the bankrupt German payment company. The sale comes a few days after Newcastle, England-based Railsbank signed a deal to buy Wirecard Card Solutions in the U.K. million Australian dollars ($5.7

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audit auditor accounting firms Sales 72

Going Concern

MARCH 11, 2024

” Getting right into it… Morale is down at EY UK after a few rounds of layoffs: Staff in EY’s UK deals business have hit out at the company’s management for the way recent job cuts were handled, saying “trust is broken” and that employees feel “deflated” as sales in the department slump. Who’s everybody?

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Going Concern

AUGUST 7, 2023

The AICPA-NASBA initiative, called the Experience, Learn and Earn (ELE) program, is designed to help resolve some of the financial hurdles to college graduates’ pursuit of the CPA license by integrating relevant online study with work experience through a participating accounting firm. Alright, that’s plenty for today.

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Going Concern

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

“The job security and the ability to have a comfortable life motivated me at first,” said Khokhar, who served as a senior accountant at two construction firms and senior auditor at an accounting firm. But once I started, had some work and life experience, I realized there are better options out there.”

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CPA Practice

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Audit Sight – The company’s platform eliminates manual work for auditors, diligence and private equity providers by automating financial transaction verification. The client advisory platform is pre-built on the latest Analytics-AI cloud platform, includes industry best practices, proactive alerts and benchmarking across clients.

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Going Concern

AUGUST 11, 2023

MCM is the Southeast region’s eighth-largest accounting service provider based on Accounting Today’s Top 100 Firms ranking with ~370 employees and approximately $72 million in annual revenue. billion sale of the Commanders to Harris and his group of approximately 20 limited partners.

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Going Concern

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The abstract from his paper Accounting Rules and the Supply of Accountants : I explore the role that accounting rules, in particular the restrictiveness of GAAP, have played in the declining supply of accountants. Big Four Accounting Firms Overhired. The accounting firm is laying off dozens of U.S.

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Ryan Lazanis

MAY 24, 2023

For kicks, here’s the oldest Xero screenshot that can be found on record (from 2007): Here are some tips to leveraging cloud computing in accounting: Tip 1: Become Cloud Accounting Certified Master the popular cloud accounting systems , like Xero or QuickBooks Online, by becoming certified on their platforms.

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Going Concern

JANUARY 12, 2024

Comments are closed on Friday Footnotes and the Monday Morning Accounting News Brief by default. Long Reads How Auditor Deloitte Missed A Nigerian Company’s Massive Fraud [ Forbes ] Hindenburg Research, known for sniffing out corporate scams, took aim in June at an obscure Nigeria-based outfit named Tingo Group.

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