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Friday Footnotes: RTO Isn’t Going So Great; KPMG Wins Something; What Auditors? | 5.19.23

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Special Report: KPMG Canada beats Big Four accounting rivals in net new client gains [ Canadian Accountant ] For the second year in a row, KPMG Canada has surpassed its Big Four rivals in net new audit client gains, helping to offset the loss of a controversial company as an audit client. or Singapore.

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Friday Footnotes: A Plea for More Accountants; Ex-Client Settles With Deloitte; BDO and Mazars Bomb Audits | 7.7.23

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The billionaire had sued the Big Four firm in London’s High Court, alleging Deloitte was in breach of its duties when it advised him on an enterprise zone investment 14 years ago in north-east England. In comparison, audits of below-median income taxpayers yield $5, the paper said. and NetEase Inc., said the people. and NetEase Inc.,

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Friday Footnotes: Behemoth Big 4 Firms Get Behemothier; Audits Get Harder; Eliminate Clients! | 11.11.22

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‘There’s definitely an accountant shortage out there’: MBAs have become the go-to degree and companies are struggling to hire enough CPAs [ Fortune ]. Audit Fees Rise Only 2.5%, But Audits Require Greater Effort [ CFO ]. Many auditors responding to the FERF study noted an increase in effort by their teams (68%).

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Friday Footnotes: EY’s Six CEO Candidates; Deloitte UK Partner Payouts Increase Again; IIA Gets Their Way | 9.29.23

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Deloitte UK said revenue grew 14% to £5.6bn in the year to May, as buoyant markets in the first six months of its financial year bolstered demand for audit and advisory work. It helped offset the “increased caution” among more cash-strapped clients and a slowdown in merger and acquisition activity in the months that followed.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY Partners Banging the Client Again; Turnstile Data Shows Staff DGAF About RTO | 1.29.24

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This is part of why New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s recent signing of “non-CPA ownership” into law is such a big deal. More on the New York non-CPA ownership bill. In the column he referenced this ancient document (August 1993) entitled “The case for non-CPA owners in CPA firms.”

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Friday Footnotes: The ERC Problem; EY Double Dips; Stress Less in Public Accounting | 5.26.23

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Long Read How a Pandemic-Era Program Became a Magnet for Fraud [ New York Times ] Amid the onset of the pandemic in 2020, as large swaths of the economy went into lockdown, Washington set up various programs to help keep businesses and their workers afloat. Have a safe Memorial Day. The reshuffle goes into effect on July 1. ‘No

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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 will join the FASB from Ernst & Young LLP (EY), the global accounting and professional services firm, where he is a partner working in Professional Practice. Mr. Day has spent most of his 38-year accounting career at EY, which he initially joined in 1986 on the audit staff in St. Louis, Missouri.

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