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Here Are the 40 Elijah Watt Sells Award Winners for 2023

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The Elijah Watt Sells Award program was established by the AICPA in 1923 to recognize outstanding performance on the CPA exam, as well as to honor Sells, one of the country’s first CPAs and a founding member of the firm now known as Deloitte. Owen Berry , Florida, employed with Ennis, Pellum & Associates CPAs in Jacksonville.

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Friday Footnotes: Bob Moritz Disappoints Us; ERC Window Slamming Shut; 2024 Sucks For Firms? | 3.22.24

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Day Named Technical Director of the Financial Accounting Standards Board [ FASB ] The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) on March 20 announced the appointment of Jackson M. Mr. Day will begin his new duties at the FASB this July. Atlas CPAs and Advisors undercut the Utah-based auditing firm by $12,000.

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

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The American Institute of CPAs has announced the 50 winners of the 2022 Elijah Watt Sells Award. This award is granted to CPA candidates who obtain a cumulative average score above 95.50 across all four sections of the Uniform CPA Examination, pass all four sections on their first attempt and have completed testing in 2022.

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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

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Here’s a rundown of accountant-client privilege vs. attorney-client privilege as explained by a tax lawyer. Bosses have also earmarked a budget of up to $400mn to be ploughed into building a new brand for the consulting business, which will no longer use the EY name after the split. As seen on r/accounting.

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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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in Tax Season ‘Chaos’ [ New York Times ] At the Internal Revenue Service’s sprawling Kansas City, Mo., SEC Chief Accountant Lauds FASB for Engaging Investors, Stakeholders on Potential New Standards [ JD Supra ] Paul Munter, acting chief accountant for the SEC’s Office of the Chief Accountant, on Feb.

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Friday Footnotes: Opinions!; EY’s Blockchain Aspirations; KPMG Junior Reprimanded | 9.30.22

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KPMG was fined £14m in May for the wrongdoing of its former staff in the case after a tribunal found that its accountants conspired to mislead a 2017 inspection team looking into audit work it conducted for the troubled engineering company, which collapsed in 2018. Firm Watch. 5), which merged with Friedman in September.

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AICPA News – June 2023

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AICPA News is a round-up of recent announcements from the American Institute of CPAs. AICPA Recognizes Top 2022 CPA Exam Performers with Elijah Watt Sells Award The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA®) recently announced the 50 winners of the 2022 Elijah Watt Sells Award. Michael Paul Donnelly, Jr.