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Accountants Behaving Badly: Police Department Accountant Couldn’t Be Bothered, PPP Loan Fraud, and a Creepy Tax Preparer

Going Concern

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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What exactly is indirect tax?

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Jump to: What is indirect tax? Types of indirect tax The value of indirect tax to tax professionals Differences between direct and indirect tax Tax planning and management is one of the primary areas accountants help their clients. Taxes are either direct tax or indirect tax.

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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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Big 4 Big Four Lobby Congress on Accounting Pipeline, AI, Crypto [ Bloomberg Tax ] PwC spent the most at $3.27 The Big Four firms targeted a portion of their millions in Capitol Hill spending last year on a pivotal problem facing the industry: shoring up a dwindling supply of qualified accountants.

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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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Leadership PwC Vets Finalists for Top Job as Industry Meets AI, Gen Z Era [ Bloomberg Tax ] PwC’s next leader will confront the challenges of rapidly advancing technology, recruiting and training an evolving workforce, and keeping up with the needs of its core accounting clients. I’m an accountant’s dream.

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Overview of U.S. taxes on foreign income for individuals

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Tax implications for owning property abroad What is FATCA? Helping clients with foreign income tax forms For U.S. To support this effort, forward-thinking accounting firms are increasingly using tax preparation software and scan-and-populate solutions to tackle the challenges of foreign income reporting.

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Professionals on the Move – May 2023

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John is a graduate of Duquesne University, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology Sun Joins CohnReznick as Principal, Cybersecurity CohnReznick LLP, one of the leading advisory, assurance, and tax firms in the United States, recently announced that David Sun has joined the firm as Principal in its rapidly growing Cybersecurity practice.