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Friday Footnotes: Disengaged Team? Do This; Deloitte’s Huge India Expansion; Auditors Yelled At…Again | 3.24.23

Going Concern

Music City is the country’s fastest growing entertainment hotspot and an office in Nashville gives Armanino’s team and its clients the trifecta of office locations to serve the entertainment industry. Auditors have done so too. Auditors Are Demanding Concessions in Split [ Wall Street Journal ] Ernst & Young’s renegade U.S.

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IRS Audit Red Flags: How to Avoid Getting Tax Audited by the IRS

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Many small business owners often feel like they might be a heartbeat away from the IRS tax audit. In fact, according to the IRS data , only about 1 percent of taxpayers are facing an audit. percent of small businesses are getting tax audited. What is a tax audit? Meeting a tax auditor is as frightening as meeting a ghost.

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Friday Footnotes: Crippling Staff Shortages in Consulting; Hold Auditors Accountable; AICPA is Mad | 8.12.22

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Hold Auditors Accountable for Complicity in Corporate Fraud [ Bloomberg Tax ] Unfortunately, since the fall of Arthur Anderson in the wake of the Enron scandal, the SEC and PCAOB have often failed to go after auditors playing fast and loose with the rules. over BT fraud audit failures [ The Guardian ] PwC has been fined almost £1.8m

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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 paper, “A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distributed,” published in June, is based on an analysis of about 710,000 in-person audits of individuals from 2010 to 2014. In comparison, audits of below-median income taxpayers yield $5, the paper said. and NetEase Inc., said the people.

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Friday Footnotes: PwC Isn’t Getting a Redemption; Just Say No to NOCLAR; Oh, Layoffs? | 3.15.24

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The whole point of hiring a big four audit firm such as PwC is to attach your financial results to a brand whose reputation is beyond question. Audit The auditor’s role in supply chain due diligence [ Compliance Week ] A recent New York Times report detailed alleged examples of migrant children working for U.S.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: The Least Amount You’ll Make at Big 4; Carmine Gets a Sword Show | 4.22.24

Going Concern

Then, its top brass were tearing themselves apart over the demise of Project Everest, the code name given to the firm’s ambitious plan to split its vast consulting and auditing practices. According to the US Office of Foreign Labor Certification data, EY entry-level accountants and auditors earn $54,000 a year and up.

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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Hires Ex-Prisoners; Notes From PwC’s All-Hands; Why CPAs Are Leaving | 4.26.24

Going Concern

The firm said on Thursday that Amitrano would become the firm’s next UK senior partner after triumphing in a partner vote against audit boss Hemione Hudson and tax leader Laura Hinton. Orthographically-challenged auditors are relatively rare. The vast majority spell their names consistently. But this is not necessarily a bad thing.

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