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7 Ways a Business is Selected for Audit

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sales tax audits ?were sales tax audits to become more common over the next two years. of respondents said they believe audit levels?will already seen an increase in the number of audits in the past two years. ramping up audits remains?anecdotal,?but How does a business get selected for an audit? anecdotal,?but

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Friday Footnotes: Florida Man’s Tax Problem; Accountants Are Walking Out; BDO Assures on Tether | 2.10.23

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Audit Americanas’ $4 Billion Accounting Scandal Puts More Scrutiny on PwC’s Auditing Record [ Bloomberg ] A $4 billion accounting shortfall would typically raise alarm bells for an auditor. The post Friday Footnotes: Florida Man’s Tax Problem; Accountants Are Walking Out; BDO Assures on Tether | 2.10.23

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The Ten Most Read Stories of 2023

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Kill the Audit Industry, Says Ex-Auditor published June 1, 2023 #4. Let’s Speculate Wildly About Why All the BDO USA Partners Are Getting Together for a Secret Meeting in Florida (UPDATE) published August 8, 2023 And the biggest story of the year was… #1.

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Friday Footnotes: Burner Phones For Big 4 Firms; Mandatory Unpaid Leave Rumors; CISOs Hate on CPAs | 12.1.23

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The measure targets the non-audit departments of each city branch in China, including consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory and assurance. As I sat under the Commencement tent, I expected to hear messages about working hard to build a company and achieve revenue growth,” Christopher Hill ’23, an audit associate at PwC, says. “I

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Don't Test Your Luck with Non-Compliance

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sales tax audits ?are sales tax audits to increase over the next two years.? already seen an increase in audits over that same time. Even the only two states with a state-wide sales tax that have held out from enacting economic nexus – Florida and Missouri – may be edging toward making sellers collect and remit sales tax.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: EY’s Paying Big For the Everest Failure; PwC UK Delays Promotions | 2.12.24

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Canadian Accountant put out a piece on the auditor shuffle using some Ideagen Audit Analytics data : While the annual data provided to Canadian Accountant by an American data analytics firm always contains a few fascinating odds and ends — and that year was no different — the most recent data available presented a mystery.

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Accountants Behaving Badly: Police Department Accountant Couldn’t Be Bothered, PPP Loan Fraud, and a Creepy Tax Preparer

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Court records show that Urban is currently in custody in Florida, serving a prison sentence for defrauding a previous employer of more than $283,000, and using the embezzled money to pay for court-ordered restitution for a prior embezzlement. The audit also showed the system was badly mismanaged by the Police Department.