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Friday Footnotes: CPAs Need to Get Contemporary; Internal Audit Priorities for 2024; A PwC Comic Book? | 8.30.24

Going Concern

Accountancy firms fight back against audit reforms [ Financial Times Opinion ] A new rule agreed by the US audit regulator, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, will force each of the biggest firms to establish a body to oversee quality control, and to make sure at least one person on it comes from outside the firm.

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Opinion: CPAs Need to Save the CPA—And Soon

CPA Practice

CPAs are essential for financial reporting, advanced tax preparation and other dull-but-important tasks that keep the economy going. These days, the accounting profession is in crisis as CPAs retire and the pipeline to replace them dries up. The health of the capital markets depends on breathing new life into the profession.

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What Auditors Do

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In two weeks, I will be teaching a graduate course on audit concepts and methods to accounting students at Fairleigh Dickinson University. However, my role is not just to teach the material but to excite them about accounting as a profession and auditing in particular and share my pride in the vital role auditors play in our ecosystem.

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PCAOB Fines Florida-Based Firm L&L CPAs $75,000 for Auditing Blunders

CPA Practice

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) doled out $150,000 worth of total fines to a Plantation, FL-based CPA firm on June 10 for violations related to quality control, auditing failures, and missing Form AP deadlines. L&L also failed to timely file Form APs for two audits.

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Prager Metis to Pay $1.95 Million to Settle SEC Charges Over FTX Audits

CPA Practice

million to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday to settle charges that it bungled audits of failed crypto asset trading platform FTX. Prager Metis also settled separate charges that it violated SEC auditor independence rules. Top 60 accounting firm Prager Metis agreed to pay $1.95

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Attention LA County: Has your Agency Received Safe Clean Water Program (SCW) funding? Urgent Audit Compliance Deadline March 31, 2024

LSLCPAs

There’s no question that annual financial statement audits are sometimes considered a “necessary evil”. However, the feeling is often eased with familiarity of the process, familiarity with your Agency’s operations, and familiarity with your auditors. We (the auditors) like to think of them as even enjoyable!

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PCAOB Has Handed Out a Slew of Punishments to Audit Firms Recently

CPA Practice

Shortly after criticizing audit firms for the number of errors they made on public company audits reviewed by PCAOB inspectors last year, the audit watchdog doled out sanctions to 12 accounting firms from July 28 to Aug. 11 for breaking various auditing rules. Snodgrass, Mancera S.C.,

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