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Friday Footnotes: Opinions!; EY’s Blockchain Aspirations; KPMG Junior Reprimanded | 9.30.22

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Unlike anybody else, we’re actually building tools and applications in this space, so we built, for example, our own blockchain audit platform, where we can do on-chain and off-chain transaction reconciliation,” said Paul Brody,blockchain lead at EY. Rehmann merges in Vestal & Wiler [ Accounting Today ]. Accountant Life.

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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.

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Friday Footnotes: CPA Exam Scares Accounting Majors Away; EY Loses Fees in China | 5.12.23

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Colorado Springs accounting firm to open Denver office [ Denver Business Journal ] Stockman Kast Ryan and Co., Former NSW Supreme Court justice Anthony Whealy, KC, now the chair of the Centre for Public Integrity, said the federal anti-corruption legislation could catch government contractors, such as PwC, and operated retrospectively.

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Here’s Everything We Know So Far About 2022 Accounting Salary Projections

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Let’s start with the salary guide to beat all salary guides: the 2022 Accounting & Finance Salary Guide from Robert Half. According to trusty ole Bob, starting pay in each of the 10 public accounting roles included in the 2022 salary guide is expected to rise by an average of between 1.4% Senior tax accountant: 1.4%.

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: PwC Didn’t Screw Up the Oscars; Deloitte India Doubles in Size; ‘Sham Audits’ | 3.13.23

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EY’s US boss Julie Boland blindsided the global leadership when she announced in a webcast to US partners on Wednesday that the plan would be put on “pause” to resolve an international row over how much of the tax practice would stay with EY’s core audit business. A former Deloitte partner is suing Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

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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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You gotta pay the piper,” Romeo Razi, a certified public accountant based in Las Vegas, tells CNBC Make It. The Use Of AI By Financial Executives And Their Auditors [ Forbes ] Artificial Intelligence (AI) is starting to have the capabilities to improve both financial reporting and auditing. “Win big?

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Accounting Expertise In C-Suite Can Compromise Financial Reports

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A new report suggested a surprising correlation between executives’ accounting expertise and the risk of those misstatements, and researchers said the findings could be key to auditors , financial regulators and corporate directors. ” It’s not that C-level executives with higher pay lack integrity, the report noted.

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