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Friday Footnotes: ‘KPMG Did Not Know What They Were Doing’; Are You Boring?; PCAOB Warns About Confirmations | 3.25.22

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Don’t feel bad, MY job ranked #3 most exciting and I assure you it absolutely is not, I write about accounting after all. “I The indictment alleges that Louis served as a “ghost preparer,” meaning that he prepared tax returns for compensation but failed to sign or otherwise declare the tax returns he prepared for other individuals.

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Friday Footnotes: Retired EY Partners Hate on the Split; It’s a Raid!; ‘An Alphabet Soup of Technology’ | 11.18.22

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Bam is a chartered accountant and an outstanding South African. Financial Accounting Foundation issues new strategic plan [ ABA Banking Journal ]. Nelson Mandela Foundation appoints ex-Deloitte Africa boss Bam as new trustee [ IOL ]. He was the CEO of Deloitte Africa from 2012 until early this year.

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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

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ESG Companies parachute accountants in to fix flawed ESG data [ Financial Times ] Accountants and auditors are muscling in on the preparation of climate data amid concern that companies are still far from ready for disclosure rules being drawn up by regulators around the world.

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Friday Footnotes: Looking Elsewhere For Talent; MPs Talk Private Equity Concerns; The Burnout Queen | 8.25.23

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News US Accounting Board Looks Across the Ocean to Fill Hole in Rules [ Bloomberg Tax ] The flood of government aid that helped keep companies afloat during the coronavirus pandemic exposed a hole in US accounting rules: Businesses have no way to record the grants, loans, and tax breaks that bolstered their bottom lines.