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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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The CAQ surveyed 748 audit partners at eight of the largest accounting firms about conditions for their clients. News KPMG plans merging UK and Swiss businesses [ Reuters ] KPMG, one of the world’s Big Four accounting firms, said on Thursday that it is exploring a merger of its UK and Swiss businesses in a bid to boost profit.

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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. The question now is whether year-over-year growth of 18% will continue next year.”

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Friday Footnotes: How EY Fights Poaching; Lack of Staff Is Closing Doors; Accounting to Biglaw? | 11.25.22

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Two Albany accounting firms to combine forces [ Times Union ]. Two leading Albany-based accounting firms, BST & Co. CPAs, LLP and O’Connor & O’Connor CPAs, announced this week they will be combining forces in a new merger. Can someone lateral from an accounting firm into Biglaw?

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Downsizes (Office Space); CPA CPA CPA; Some Good News on Diversity | 8.26.22

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Accounting Firm and Two Partners Conducted Deficient Custody Exams [ SEC ] The SEC’s order finds that Farber Hass Hurley LLP and its partners, Michel Abedian and Michael Hurley, departed from applicable standards for attestation engagements and compliance examinations when conducting surprise examinations of clients.

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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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“A proposal like this could allow for the reinstatement of credit for more than 15,000 CPA candidates and re-open the door for those candidates to complete their journeys to becoming licensed CPAs. So that’s not a scripted set of results, yet it is known prior to the event, and gambling is legal on the Oscars.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY’s Paying Big For the Everest Failure; PwC UK Delays Promotions | 2.12.24

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With young people opting for higher-paying fields out of college, Gonzalez said that lots of accounting firms just can’t take on a lot of new business. While the rise and fall of foreign accounting firms was the headline theme of the data on new client gains and losses, there were other curiosities and mysteries solved.

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