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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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TPB slaps 5-year ban on accountant involved in $26m fraud [ Accountants Daily ] The Tax Practitioners Board has slapped a five-year ban on a Sydney accountant charged with stealing $26 million through his firm to fund a lavish lifestyle and gambling addiction.

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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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Friday Footnotes: KPMG Pays High Schoolers 20 Bucks an Hour; Deloitte Cyberattacked Too; IRS on ERC | 7.28.23

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Beginning no later than 2011, Fulton was aware that Nix ran an illegal gambling business. Nonetheless, Fulton knowingly laundered Nix’s illegal gambling proceeds by continuing to provide financial services to Nix and providing access to the financial system. The IRS audit rate for large partnerships has dropped to less than 0.5%

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Monday Morning Accounting News Brief: A Billionaire KPMG Alum; EY Split Stalled (Again); NSA Accountants | 11.14.22

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PwC Deals Director Orla Fisher, who switched from Audit to Deals in 2007, tries to explain what she does for a living : “Deals is essentially helping people to buy and sell companies. A previously undisclosed government-ordered audit of Twitter Inc.’s A previously undisclosed government-ordered audit of Twitter Inc.’s

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Friday Footnotes: Anyone Wanna Work in Hollywood?; Profit-Hungry CEOs Love Gen AI; KPMG’s SF Future | 1.19.24

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The financier accused Disney/Fox of self-dealing with FX, Hulu and Disney+, said its revenue began to shrink and that an audit it commissioned showed breaches of contract. The demand for reporting to better understand a company’s performance and related risks is being coupled to technology to accelerate change in the audit profession.

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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’ on your winnings, says tax expert [ NBC10 Philadelphia ] All gambling winnings are considered taxable income by the Internal Revenue Service, even if you aren’t a professional gambler. Tax Betting on the Super Bowl? “Win big? researchers surveyed financial executives (e.g.,

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Ghosts Of Payments Fraud Past: Enron CEO Skilling Freed From Custody

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The claims led to investigations by a number of authorities, including the FBI and auditors. According to the Calgary Herald , Dhuga said “I see you have discovered my gambling habit” when the scam was uncovered and she was confronted.