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Tuesday Morning Accounting News Brief: CPA Numbers Are Abysmal; PwC Blocked Government Inquiry | 5.30.23

Going Concern

Ian Gow and former KPMG director Stuart Kells, authors of the 2018 book “The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of the Global Accounting Monopoly,” write about Big 4 integrity for The Mandarin : The PwC affair is of course not the first of its kind, even for PwC. In the 1990s and 2000s, Caterpillar Inc.

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AICPA Recognizes Top 2022 CPA Exam Performers with Elijah Watt Sells Award

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Kaarin Kontio Evens (Minnesota), a graduate of Macalester College with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry, a Bachelor of Arts in music and a Master of Science in chemistry from University of Wisconsin, Madison (with additional business coursework at Augsburg University), is employed with Lottsa Tax and Accounting Services in Minneapolis, MN.

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Friday Footnotes: New Managers Share Wisdom; KPMG Praised??; PwC Creeps Leave | 7.22.22

Going Concern

.'” Three PwC staff leave firm after ‘rating women’ scandal [ Australian Financial Review ] Three PwC staff members who allegedly attended male-only events where they rated the attractiveness of women in their office have left the firm, with the firm’s leadership labelling the behaviour as “unacceptable” following an external investigation.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Big 4 Firms Hate Going Concern (Warnings, That Is); Being a Whistleblower Blows | 5.20.24

Going Concern

PwC is facing legal action claiming the accountancy firm is liable for the alleged rape of a graduate employee following after-work drinks. Those numbers seem impressive compared to figures outside of Big 4 where off-brand audit firms issue going concern warnings before a company goes down only about 17 percent of the time.

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Friday Footnotes: Accounting AI Explodes; SOX Compliance Sux; KPMG Gets on a List | 6.17.22

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KPMG has gone above and beyond my expectations of a Big 4 accounting firm because of their attention they give their employees. ICAN to attract youths to accounting profession [ Punch Ng ] Meanwhile in Nigeria…sound familiar?

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Friday Footnotes: Look What You Did, PwC; No Lakehouse This Year; India Wants Its Own Big 4 | 5.3.24

Going Concern

That PwC Thing Senate caravan not moving on from PwC [ The Mandarin ] Accounting firm PwC Australia has still a lot of work to do before it can move on from the tax leaks scandal, according to two members of a Senate committee looking into government procurement. Do your top challenges align with those of your peers?

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AICPA News – June 2023

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The coalition includes the following organizations: AICPA Latino Tax Pros National Association of Black Accountants, Inc. NSBCPA) National Society of Tax Professionals (NSTP) Padgett Business Services The Diverse Organization of Firms (DOF) H&R Block Prosperity Now. in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.