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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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Birthdays A CPA Firm Celebrates a Century in Business [ The CPA Journal ] In today’s climate of accounting firm mergers, it is worth recognizing when a CPA firm has managed to remain independent and partner-owned for 100 years. researchers surveyed financial executives (e.g.,

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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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I would have thought that accountants would be seen as boring, but effective and the perfect person to do a good job on your tax return,” Wijnand Van Tilburg, a study co-author and senior lecturer in the university’s psychology department, said in a statement last week. PCAOB Spotlight PDF here.

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Friday Footnotes: EY Partners’ Snazzy Secret Meeting; PwC Talks Layoffs; Merger Mania! | 8.19.22

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Regulator Requires Audit Firms, Individual Auditors to Apply to Join New Register [ Wall Street Journal ] The U.K. said Stephen Rowe, associate accounting professor at the University of Arkansas and a former Big Four auditor. “It Audit: U.K. executives by accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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