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State CPA Society News & Updates: Feb. 2024

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The Arkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants (ARCPA) announced the 2024 ARCPA Student Education Fund Golf Tournament, which will take place on Monday, May 20, 2024 at the Maumelle Country Club. The Idaho Society of Certified Public Accountants (IDCPA) is offering What Tax Practitioners Need to Know About Medicare.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Living in Mom’s Basement; OnlyFans Tax Investigations; Finance vs. Accounting | 12.12.22

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“​​Even the most gullible person should not believe Sam’s claim that this was an accounting error.” Today we learn that Arkansas is not being hit with the accountant shortage as bad as other states : In Arkansas, the decline is not as severe.

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Friday Footnotes: How Much Big 4 Spent on Lobbying Last Year; Super Bowl Bets; CFOs Feeling Good | 2.9.24

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You gotta pay the piper,” Romeo Razi, a certified public accountant based in Las Vegas, tells CNBC Make It. The Use Of AI By Financial Executives And Their Auditors [ Forbes ] Artificial Intelligence (AI) is starting to have the capabilities to improve both financial reporting and auditing. “Win big?

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Friday Footnotes: EY on the Private Equity Offer; KPMG Tries to Stop Partner Poaching; Taxing the Metaverse | 9.8.23

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Little Rock housing authority will provide auditing firm with range of requested documents [ Arkansas Advocate ] HUD assessed Little Rock’s federally-funded public housing authority’s physical condition, financial condition, management and use of its capital fund and gave it 40 points out of a possible 100.

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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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PCAOB cautions firms on use of outside service providers for audit confirmations [ Accounting Today ] The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board issued a Spotlight publication Monday containing some observations and reminders for auditing firms about relying on outside service providers for electronic audit confirmations.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Is Tops in M&A Advisory; What You Can Do With a MAcc; EY Consolidates in LatAm | 4.28.23

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Audit Audit partners suffer after writing critical ICOs: study [ CFO Dive ] Audit partners who write adverse internal control opinions are more likely than their less critical peers to be pulled from an engagement and shifted to less prestigious, lower-fee client assignments, according to a study.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: Eff You, Pay Us; Let’s Complain About Auditing Again; RIP to a Real One | 8.14.23

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When you woke up this morning did you let out a big yawn and then ask yourself “how can audit firms respond to ongoing regulatory scrutiny?” PCAOB staff expects approximately 40% of the audits reviewed in 2022 will have one or more deficiencies, up from 34% in 2021 and 29% in 2020. The firm, BST & Co.,

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