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Friday Footnotes: Disengaged Team? Do This; Deloitte’s Huge India Expansion; Auditors Yelled At…Again | 3.24.23

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Stanton was licensed as a certified public accountant in New York in 1988 and had previously run his own firm. EY, KPMG and the fallout of two accounting scandals [ Financial Times Opinion ] It is not just shareholders that have become ever more cautious in the wake of one of Europe’s largest accounting scandals.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Wants to Buy; Losers Dump NFTs For Tax Purposes; CPA Demand in 2031 | 1.9.23

Going Concern

A PCAOB inspections leader offers his insight to auditors at a conference: “The role of the financial statement auditor and the auditing profession continues to be a noble endeavor that has never been more needed and vital to our economic stability and the well-being of our capital markets,” said George Botic, CPA.

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Friday Footnotes: Deloitte’s Naughty Workpapers; Audit Reform Critics; Clients Getting Dropped Like Mics | 3.4.22

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Meanwhile on Twitter, our friend Sam Antar is still roasting the KPMG auditors (well, technically Peat Marwick) who let the Crazy Eddie fraud slip through their horny little fingers: Two hookers and an auditor. in Tax Season ‘Chaos’ [ New York Times ] At the Internal Revenue Service’s sprawling Kansas City, Mo.,

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[11/11/21 NEW] Interview of Baruch Lev with The Soul of the Enterprise

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He was last on back in July 2016 and we discussed his book, The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers. We talk more about that book and his more recent article in Accounting Today, The sad state of accounting standards. Thank you, wow, that’s radical coming from an accounting professor.

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Friday Footnotes: They Really Screwed Up That PCAOB Cheating Thing; Better Not Get Burned Out; Uber of Audits | 3.8.24

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District Court for the Southern District of New York said. The accounting firm’s former executive director has already served her eight month prison sentence and supervised release term. In the wake of the deficient audit work by the firm and Gries, Tingo underwent multiple restatements of its 2021 financial statements.

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Friday Footnotes: EY Can’t Hire Tech; John Doe Sues the PCAOB; Auditors Can’t Find Torpedoes and Missiles | 1.20.03

Going Concern

Under rules introduced in 2016, large UK-listed companies are required to change auditor at least every 20 years and to run a competitive tender once a decade. Germany’s Commerzbank sues EY for Wirecard losses [ Reuters ] The German lender Commerzbank (CBKG.DE) is suing accounting firm EY over the 200 million euros ($216.12

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Friday Footnotes: EY Cancels Christmas; A Very Sucky PwC Report; Should We Tax Robots? | 12.23.22

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UK companies brace themselves for escalating battles with auditors [ Financial Times ]. UK companies are gearing up for conflicts with auditors next year as economic and political uncertainty add to the difficulty of signing off accounts and forecasting financial outlooks. Current rules don’t require this.

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