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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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Big 4 Big Four Lobby Congress on Accounting Pipeline, AI, Crypto [ Bloomberg Tax ] PwC spent the most at $3.27 In a summary of the report, Linklaters said six unidentified partners outside Australia should have asked where the tax information had come from and that disciplinary action had been taken against them. “Win big?

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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. 5, the FRC said. ” Oh, Reddit. Please never change.

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