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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Accounting Firms Ditch Zoom Interviews; Mississippi’s Best CPA Exam Candidates | 8.28.23

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Accounting firms across the pond are ditching Zoom interviews, writes Sunday Times : Zoom calls became the norm for business meetings during the pandemic — but accountancy firms, among the biggest graduate recruiters, are going back to face-to-face interviews when hiring, saying it is easier to assess candidates’ characters.

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Friday Footnotes: How Are Firms Actually Using Data Analytics?; KPMG and BDO on the Move | 9.15.23

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A number of accounting firms,1 public companies, professional membership associations and other key stakeholders raised concerns. In addition, in a rare occurrence, PCAOB board members Christina Ho and Duane DesParte — the only two certified public accountants on the board — issued public dissents when the PCAOB issued the proposal.

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Friday Footnotes: RSM Layoffs; The Leader Who Cried On His First Day; Advisory Pays Better (Duh) | 5.5.23

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AI changing landscape in accounting [ Mississippi Business Journal ] EisnerAmper, an international business advisory firm, is investing heavily in technology including AI and leveraging it to do things faster, better and provide more value to its clients, said Jason Juliano, director of digital transformation.

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Friday Footnotes: A CPA Grindset We Can Get Behind; The Klynveld Krypto Team; Firms Still Desperate (For People) | 6.24.22

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Speaking to Cointelegraph at the Collision conference in Toronto on Tuesday, Kareem Sadek and Kunal Bhasin of KPMG Canada’s crypto assets and blockchain services team said the company had added Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) to its balance sheet to show others it “had skin in the game.” chair and senior partner at PwC, told me. 121 (SAB No.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Green Dot Gives Back; More Consulting Cuts Coming? | 6.12.23

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KPMG on the UK economic forecast via The Guardian : A new report by the accountancy firm KPMG has found that the economy has enjoyed a better start to the year than it had thought, and is now expected to grow by 0.3% Mississippi auditor Shad White issued a report Thursday that said the state’s public universities spent $23.4

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Friday Footnotes: Big 4 Culture Gets Slammed Again; Audit Leads the Way in AI; Small Firm Gripes | 11.10.23

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So as a professional in the field is doing research on a particular topic and in the course of a client engagement, they can use this tool to help them respond to those types of inquiries, or to assist in the audit process,” Will Bible, digital transformation and innovation leader, audit and assurance for Big Four accounting firm Deloitte said.

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Friday Footnotes: A (Fake) Day in the Life at Deloitte; DYNAMIC Merger For Grant Thornton; CPA Awareness | 12.9.22

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As we enter the season of giving, it seems that employees of a Mississippi-based accounting firm with a lucrative Florida contract have allegedly been caught gifting themselves funds intended to help citizens in need. Baker Tilly Shops for US Law Firm as Big Four Expand Services [ Bloomberg Tax ]. Something’s up.

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